9 SOFTWARE FOR CREATING, AUTHORING, ANNOTATING, MARKING-UP, RECOMPOSING, ACCUMULATING, PROVIDING, DISTRIBUTING, PROCESSING, ANALYZING, DECODING, VISUALIZING, AND CONSUMING OF TIME-CONTINUOUSLY SAMPLED DATA, NAMELY AUDIO, VIDEO, AND GRAPHICS WITH A TIME-ATTRIBUTION, SCIENTIFIC MEASUREMENTS OVER TIME, MEDICAL MEASUREMENTS OVER TIME, AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENTS OVER TIME; SOFTWARE FOR CODING AND DECODING MULTIMEDIA, AUDIO, VIDEO, GRAPHICS, TEXT, TIME CONTINUOUS DATA AND DATA FILES; SOFTWARE FOR CREATING ELECTRONIC FILES; SOFTWARE FOR CREATING MULTIMEDIA, AUDIO, VIDEO, GRAPHICS, TEXT, TIME CONTINUOUS DATA AND DATA FILES; SOFTWARE FOR CREATING AND ADDING METADATA WITH ELECTRONIC FILES; SOFTWARE FOR CREATING AND ADDING METADATA WITH MULTIMEDIA, AUDIO, VIDEO, GRAPHICS, TEXT, TIME CONTINUOUS DATA AND DATA FILES; SOFTWARE FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF MULTIMEDIA, AUDIO, VIDEO, GRAPHICS, TEXT, TIME CONTINUOUS DATA AND DATA FILES; SOFTWARE FOR VISUALLY DISPLAYING MULTIMEDIA, AUDIO, VIDEO, GRAPHICS, TEXT, TIME CONTINUOUS DATA AND DATA FILES WHICH INCLUDE METADATA; DATABASE SOFTWARE FOR MANAGING AND ORGANIZING METADATA, MULTIMEDIA, AUDIO, VIDEO, GRAPHICS, TEXT, TIME CONTINUOUS DATA AND DATA FILES; ELECTRONIC FILES, NAMELY, ELECTRONIC CHIP CARDS, COMPUTER MEMORY, COMPUTER DISCS, OPTICAL DISCS, AND PORTABLE DEVICES FOR STORING METADATA, MULTIMEDIA, AUDIO, VIDEO, GRAPHICS, TEXT, TIME CONTINUOUS DATA AND DATA FILES; COMPUTER HARDWARE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CODING AND DECODING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FIRMWARE USED FOR CREATING, AUTHORING, ANNOTATING, MARKING-UP, RECOMPOSING, ACCUMULATING, PROVIDING, DISTRIBUTING, PROCESSING, ANALYZING, DECODING, VISUALIZING, AND CONSUMING OF TIME-CONTINUOUSLY SAMPLED DATA; DEVICE DRIVER SOFTWARE FOR PROCESSING TIME-CONTINUOUSLY SAMPLED DATA; OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE; PROTOCOL SOFTWARE FOR THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN REMOTE COMPUTING DEVICES USING TIME-CONTINUOUSLY SAMPLED DATA; ELECTRONIC CONSUMER DEVICES, NAMELY, PORTABLE MEDIA PLAYERS, TELEVISIONS, DIGITAL CAMERAS, VIDEO CAMERAS, RADIOS, STEREO TUNERS, CD/DVD PLAYERS, TELEPHONES, AND SET-TOP BOXES