Abstract: The device determines conditions for a processing liable to be carried out on data in a file, by at least one input/output device or unit. To this end the semantics of the processing of the data are determined, and a configuration determination is performed, without modifying the data, to take into account the semantics of the processing of the data in order to determine the configuration of the pilot of the input/output device or unit intended to implement this processing.

Abstract: The method of verifying multimedia entities according to the invention to determine whether a first multimedia entity matches a second multimedia entity, is characterized in that it comprises a step of selecting from a plurality of second multimedia entities, by a content-based search, a set of second multimedia entities close to the first multimedia entity, and a step of deciding as to at least one match between the first multimedia entity and at least one second multimedia entity of the set of second multimedia entities, based on a comparison between the first multimedia entity and the second multimedia entities of the set.