Universal container for audio data

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2011-03-22

2011-03-22

Saint Cyr, Leonard (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Audio signal bandwidth compression or expansion

C704S503000, C704S504000, C707S793000, C707S793000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07912730

ABSTRACT:
Storing audio data encoded in any of a plurality of different audio encoding formats is enabled by parametrically defining the underlying format in which the audio data is encoded, in audio format and packet table chunks. A flag can be used to manage storage of the size of the audio data portion of the file, such that premature termination of an audio recording session does not result in an unreadable corrupted file. This capability can be enabled by initially setting the flag to a value that does not correspond to a valid audio data size and that indicates that the last chunk in the file contains the audio data. State information for the audio data, to effectively denote a version of the file, and a dependency indicator for dependent metadata, may be maintained, where the dependency indicator indicates the state of the audio data on which the metadata is dependent.

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