Media player service library

US7831605B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Daniel Plastina · Sammamish, US
• Michael J. Novak · Redmond, US
• Jonathan M. Cain · Seattle, US
• Keith W. Ballinger · North Bend, US
• Frank Z. Chang · Bellevue, US
• Judson Craig Hally · Sammamish, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 12, 2005
• Grant date: Nov 9, 2010
• Expiry date: Jan 18, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09B5/06
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Integrated management of local and remote media files. A playlist of media files adapted for rendering by a media player application are located in either a local media library stored at the computer or a remote media library accessible by the computer via a data communication network or both. Media player operations may be performed on the playlist. A first identifier identifies each of the media files in the playlist and a second identifier represents a source of each of the media files in the playlist. A streaming locator defined by the first and second identifiers locates each of the media files in the playlist in the local media library and then in the remote library.