System and method for optimized property retrieval of stored objects
US7502820B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 3, 2004 |
| Grant date | Mar 10, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 11, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/48
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and related techniques are provided in the present invention, which generate an interrogation request from an initiator device, to a mobile or other media player. The binary objects which encode the content may include or have associated with them a set of corresponding object properties which help to define each object. According to embodiments of the invention, the initiator may communicate with the responding device using a media-aware protocol such that the initiator may identify one or all of the set of properties paired with all of the objects to be returned. The initiator may then present the objects along with the corresponding properties to a user to manipulate. Because properties may be retrieved in conjunction with, at the same time and using a unified retrieval scheme, the need to query each object identifier one by one for associated properties is removed.
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