Patent ID: 7925721

Claim:
In a system including an apparatus for processing multimedia contents, a method for selecting a desired modality from a plurality of modalities each of which is adoptable by a multimedia item as an alternative to any other modality of the plurality of modalities, the desired modality being for adopting the multimedia item to one or more media resources, the method comprising: (1) the system obtaining data which define, for each said modality, a content value specification associated with a set of one or more resource values each of which is a value of the one or more media resources each of which is a resource of a network or terminal, the content value specification providing a content value for each of said one or more resource values in the associated set; wherein for at least one modality which is one of said modalities, the associated content value specification depends on each of a plurality of quality specifications that are different from each other, wherein each quality specification associates each resource value in the content value specification's associated set with a quality-specific content value for the modality, the associated set comprising a plurality of resource values; wherein for at least said one modality, the data defines the quality specifications to define the associated content value specification; (2) the system obtaining a resource value v1 belonging to at least one of the sets; and (3) the system selecting the desired modality from said modalities, the desired modality's content value specification's associated set containing the resource value v1.