US Patent 10129556 Systems and methods for accessing digital data

Disclosed are methods and systems for encoding and decoding a container. The container contains one or more accessors for content included in the container. An accessor implements an algorithm for accessing the content. In some aspects, the algorithm may be implemented via intermediate or source code defined in the container. In one aspect, a method of encoding a container includes encoding first content in the container, encoding first accessor data in the container, the first accessor data implementing a platform independent algorithm for accessing first content; and writing the container to a device.