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The SDMI standard that was initiated by Bell Labs LUCENT (NYSE) has spread to an obscure company called e.Digital. This company has the patented rights to an operating system that Lucent has chosen to develop the portable Internet Music device. There is more to this microspopic operating system, so read on. My theory is, that since most of the huge growth in the "Internet hardware software wars" will be with small hand held devices. An operating system that is microscopic in nature will prevail. Enter e.Digital of San Diego California, formally
Norris Communications.
I bring this story to you since it is very controversal at this time and the Music Industry has been rocked by the MP3 Open standards which are allowing pirated copies of
music to proliferate. What appears as what will happen is the MP3 system will have to conform
to some form of Watermarking.Some security will be enforced at some time for the delivery of the music. And the SDMI standards will inflitrate the market standarizing the way we get music from the Internet. The music compression standards will proliferate, as can be expected., howevery who would you trust, MP3, or Lucent's EPAC compression? Either way some different methods of compression will be out there, as well as operating systems, methods. e.Digital is the focus of this story since it is so small and obscure. Texas Instruments is teaming with them as well for the DSP Digital Signal Processor, Lucent with EPAC, and Cognicity for Watermarking-security, and Lucent and Unversal have teamed together. What a team, what a story.
1) You've got Lucent, Texas Instruments, Universal, Cognicity, d.Digital (The SDMI compliant group) (High CD quality)
a) AT&T's a2b music digital-music distribution
2) You've got Sony, Microsoft (some where in the middle ground with a weak version of file compression low CD quality)
3) You've got the several current MP3 players ( "We are going to be SDMI-compliant, and InterTrust is also committed to being SDMI-compliant.)
a) Diamond partnered with InterTrust
4) Samsung Electronics (Yepp brand MP3 player)
5) MP3 and Real Audio G2
As quoted from: techweb.com
" Not all of the new offerings accommodate MP3 files. Last month, SDMI
founding member Lucent Technologies introduced a Texas Instruments
DSP-based, non-MP3 Internet-audio portable music player that only plays music
that has been compressed using Lucent's Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder
(Epac). The player employs an operating and file-management system, called
MicroOS, that was developed by e.Digital (San Diego), a contract design
company that is building the handheld device for Lucent.
Lucent said the device will be ready for delivery to OEMs in time for
Christmas. It promised that it will work with TI, also an SDMI founding
member, to make sure the offering meets SDMI's first set of fast-track security
specs.
The e.Digital device will use security technology from third-party vendors,
including digital watermarking technology from Cognicity.
Epac licenses
Lucent said it is hammering out deals with Web sites and record labels to carry
Epac-encoded music. It plans to license Epac to other device makers and to sell
the e.Digital players to OEMs. DSP support for the e.Digital device is expected
to be expanded to devices from Lucent Microelectronics and others."
{end of quote} Reference:
techweb.com
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Regarding e.Digital Links to vital information for your story:
edig.com
norriscomm.com (This web site is from the former Name Norris Commuincations)
(The name was changed to e.Digital)
(The MicroOS is the primary reason Lucent is involved with them)
Regarding the SDMI Standards meeting next week in Washington D.C.
wired.com
Regarding Water Marking technology:
cognicity.com
The IBM connection to e.Digital {see web page Reference to e.Digital}
software.ibm.com
Regarding the Lucent, Texas Instruments, e.Digital News story regarding Internet Music Download Device.
biz.yahoo.com
Regarding Lucent and "Phil Ramone named as senior Advisor to Lucent Technologies Internet music download initiative.
( "Recently, Lucent announced a hand-held EPAC player with e.Digital that will be delivered in December, 1999.")
lucent.com
Regarding Lucent Digital Radio" Web Site
lucent.com
Regarding the MicroOS(tm) from e.Digital Patents:
Small footprint operating system that can be utilized in peripherals connected to the internet, whether by wired, wiredless or via satellite.
The key to understanding Edig's potential is in their multi-patented Micro OS (operating system software.)
patents.ibm.com (Norris/EDIG)
patents.ibm.com (Norris/EDIG)
patents.ibm.com (Norris/EDIG)
patents.ibm.com (Norris/EDIG)
patents.ibm.com (Norris/EDIG)
Regarding the Lanier Contracts with e.Digital
The product is to be delivered shortly and is part of the Lanier C-Quence solution
lanier.com
Regarding the MP3 vs Lucent & TI (EPAC) standards & e.Digital
"Due to ship in December, the new device, to be manufactured by e.Digital, will use Lucent's Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC) chip and will employ e.Digital's
MicroOS file management system, Lucent said. The new e.Digital device
will use a new class of Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) manufactured by Texas Instruments.
news.com
Regarding Manuafacture for Lanier who uses e.Digital MicroOS(tm) {Lanier is utilizing the operating system for Medical
Dictation}
eltech.com
E.digital (hereinafter known as "Edig") ~
The key to understanding Edig's potential is in their multi-patented Micro OS (operating system software.)
patents.ibm.com (Norris/EDIG)
patents.ibm.com (Norris/EDIG)
patents.ibm.com (Norris/EDIG)
patents.ibm.com (Norris/EDIG)
patents.ibm.com (Norris/EDIG)
This is a full-force, small footprint operating system that can be utilized in peripherals connected to the internet, whether by
wired, wiredless or via satellite. At present there are two versions of Micro OS. The full Micro OS stores and manipulates
compressed voice, music, image or video and conventional file data. It supports industry standard flash memory, miniature
(such as IBM's new 340 meg mini drive) and IDE hard disks. It has cross-platform capabilties and can utilize one or multiple
codec algorithms (MP3, AAC, EPAC, etc.). The range of potential products is tremendous: from music players to digital
cameras to cellular phones, to name a few. It's beauty lies in the fact that it takes very little memory and has the capacity to
support an unlimited number of files, directories, and subdirectories. It is scalable.
Edig's Micro OS Audio is a version of the above system specifically adapted for use with large music files. MicroOS Audio is
the version that is incorporated into the Lucent portable music player. IMHO, it's only a matter of time before we see Micro
OS Video patent news (there are patents pending).
Moreover, Edig was commissioned by Intel to develop 100 text to speech/speech to text (tts/stt) protoypes due to Intel
mid-summer. Intel is to market the products to their OEM customers.
IBM (plus Intel, Edig, Phillips, Olympus, Norcom and Dictaphone thru the newly formed VoiceTimes group software.ibm.com have combined to develop a mobile enterprise
standard. Of this group, only Intel and Edig have relevant operating systems. Intel's system received poor reviews..hence it's
easy to understand why Edig is in this group.
Lanier has already contracted with Edig for tts/stt mobile units. The product is to be delivered shortly and is part of the Lanier
C-Quence solution (http://www.lanier.com/healthcare/docutivity/voicewrite-mobile.html) After medical, there are the legal,
insurance, field, law enforcement fields to come.
biz.yahoo.com
biz.yahoo.com
eetimes.com
zdnet.com
zdnet.com
wired.com
news.com
news.webnoize.com
grammy.org./news/national/index.html
software.ibm.com
sdmi.org./ (most of this is closed..but there's some stuff public)
riaa.com
mode.net (they have a pact with lucent; i keep waiting for their partners list)
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