Category: Technology
Company: Apple Inc.
Created by: Karl Schaeffer
Number of Blossarys: 9
The process by which an entity such as a user or a server gets the right to perform a privileged operation. (Authorization can also refer to the right itself, as in “Bob has the authorization to run ...
A server that has access to a store of authentication information and that can authenticate users. For example, an authentication server might verify a user’s identity by prompting the user for a ...
The act of verifying identity with something the user has, knows, or is. For example, a user knows information such as a name and password. The user may have something physical such as a smart card. ...
An Apple-supplied audio unit used to interface with hardware input or output, so named because it interacts with the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer).
A Component Manager–based Simulator that adds an audio feature to a Mac app. Audio units can provide effects such as filtering and reverb, MIDI-based music synthesis, audio data format conversions, ...
An iOS software abstraction that represents audio behavior for an application, in context, on an iPhone or iPod touch. An audio session has a category and can be active or inactive.
In Audio Queue Services, a data structure used as a container for transient blocks of audio data being played or recorded. An audio queue buffer is managed by the audio queue that owns it.