Microsoft Licensed by SISVEL and Audio MPEG under MP3 Patents.TURIN, Italy & ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, has acquired a patent license from SISVEL S.p.A. and its U.S. subsidiary Audio MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). , Inc. to the MP3 and MPEG2 audio compression Encoding digital audio data to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. Audio compression typically uses lossy methods, which eliminate bits that are not restored at the other end. ADPCM and MP3 are examples of audio compression methods. See audio codec and data compression. patents owned by France Telecom, TDF (language) TDF - An intermediate language, a close relative of ANDF. A TDF program is an ASCII stream describing an abstract syntax tree. TDF became part of TenDRA in abut 2001. , IRT IRT Item Response Theory IRT In Regard To IRT Incident Response Team IRT In Reference To IRT In Regards To IRT Icing Research Tunnel (wind tunnel) IRT Interborough Rapid Transit , and Philips. Under this agreement, Microsoft is licensed to sell products using the patented MP3 and MPEG2 audio compression technology. As per SISVEL and Audio MPEG's standard licensing program, the license granted to Microsoft covers PC-software and hardware products including Microsoft's new Zune music player, the Xbox 360, and Microsoft's MP3 software on Windows-based PC's. "Microsoft is pleased to have joined the SISVEL licensing program" said Amir Majidemehr, corporate vice president of the Consumer Media Technology Group at Microsoft. "Microsoft has always been committed to protecting the intellectual property of our partners and the industry, and we feel this agreement helps to further that goal." "The decision by Microsoft to take a license from Sisvel and Audio MPEG again illustrates the success and importance of MP3 in the field of audio compression and confirms the industry's appreciation of the research and development behind MPEG Audio technology covered by the patents we are licensing" said General Richard Neal
Richard Edmund Neal (Ret), President of Audio MPEG. By taking a license, Microsoft has joined over 800 other companies that are licensed by Sisvel and Audio MPEG on these patents for MP3 players and other products using MPEG Audio compression. |
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