Delivering multimedia descriptions
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorErnest Yiu Cheong Wan
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Abstract
A method of processing a document described in a mark up language, for example XML, is disclosed. A structure and a text content of the document are separated, and then the structure is transmitted before the text content, for example, by streaming. Parsing of the received structure is commenced before all of the text content is received. Also disclosed is a method of forming a streamed presentation from at least one media object having content and description components. A presentation description is generated from at least one component description of the media object and is processed to schedule delivery of component descriptions and content of the presentation to generate elementary data streams associated with the component descriptions and content.
Claims9
-21. (canceled)
A method of processing a document described in a mark up language, said method comprising steps of:
- separating a structure and a text content of said document;
- sending the structure before the text content;
- and
- commencing to parse the received structure before all of the text content is received.
-33. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.