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US PATENT DOCUMENTS tion of Specific transcoding operations can be made by first analyzing the features, purposes and relevances of the indi 5,541,852 A* 7/1996 EyuBoglu et al....... 364/514 C vidual multimedia objects within the multimedia documents, 5,903,892 A* 5/1999 Hoffert et al................. 707/10 then by Selecting the transcoding alternatives according to 5.940, 391 A* 8/1999 Malkin et al............... 370/390 the results of the analysis. Based on the analysis, different 5,953,506 A: 9/1999 Kara et al......... 395/200.61 transcoding algorithms can be applied to different content, 6,058,122 A 5/2000 Hwang et al............... 370/522 less than all of the content can be transcoded, groups of