Optimal handling and manipulation of high-speed streaming media in a computing device

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PATENT NO 6366970
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09283947

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A method and apparatus for optimal handling of high bandwidth streaming data in a computer system minimizes computational activities to achieve maximal performance. This performance improvement is accomplished by minimizing the amount of memory copying and also by minimizing the number of allocation and deallocations of objects which occur. Memory copying is a CPU/bandwidth intense operation when there is high speed streaming data on the input. The allocation and deallocation of objects is a system resource intense activity and requires a very significant amount of CPU processing per invocation in a computing device. Using a combination of techniques, the invention provides a technique that reduces both the number of memory copies as well as the number of objects which get allocated and deallocated during the course of operating on the streaming media data.

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ROVI TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION2830 DE LA CRUZ BOULEVARD SANTA CLARA CA 95050

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Langer, Randy Port Orchard, WA 7 171
Wolff, Robert M Fremont, CA 21 1938

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