Patent ID: 8646002

Claim:
A system for reproducing multimedia content including audio/video and effects associated with the audio/video, comprising; a multimedia content producer providing the multimedia content comprising audio/video data of the audio/video; a device metadata server providing one or more device effect control metadata for reproducing the effects associated with the multimedia content; and a multimedia reproducing apparatus downloading said one or more device effect control metadata for the multimedia content from the device metadata server, and applying device effect control metadata selected by a user to thereby reproduce the multimedia content with effects in a manner corresponding to the selected device effect control metadata, wherein the downloading uses a request message containing fields for a message identifier, a multimedia content name, a compression CODEC used in compression, a reproduction time of the content and one of a type of content from among realistic multimedia content and pure audio visual data and uses a response message having the message identifier, the multimedia content name, total message length, a count number of device metadata retrieved for the content, metadata payload size and metadata payload.