Patent ID: 7747558
Filing Date: 2010-06-29
Classification: H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing a metadata schema file and a metadata instance file; providing a media file having a binary capable user field; compressing the metadata schema into metadata schema fragments by a first compression method; assembling the compressed metadata schema fragments; compressing the metadata instance file into metadata instance fragments; assembling the compressed metadata instance fragments; setting a media file header to indicate binary data payload; appending a data start file indicator to the assembled metadata schema and the assembled metadata instance; inserting the assembled metadata schema and the metadata instance into the binary capable user field of the media file; and providing an extensible markup language (XML) schema and XML instance data as corresponds to an XML document; processing the XML schema apart from the XML instance data to provide resultant compressed XML schema data; processing the XML instance data to provide a corresponding XML instance table; and compressing the XML instance table to provide a resultant compressed XML instance table.