Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Panasonic Corporation

Team Effort, Inc.

Brian James Walker

Ian Cameron Mercer

Bruce A Bradshaw

Hiroshi Kase

Jennifer Lauren Rodenhouse

Colin Michael Riley

Kevin Leigh LaChapelle

Keisuke Matsuo

Salvador Alucema

Paula Luckenbach

David E Gardner

Anthony J Giardini

Tomotaka Yagi

Gareth Alan Howell

Nobuyasu Takeguchi

Harutoshi Miyamoto

Samuel Ng

Yasuyuki Torii

Stephane Joseph Comeau

Sako Asayama

Prashant Dwarkadas Agrawal

John Deutscher

Kevin Leigh La Chapelle

Kristen Miller

Embodiments are directed to providing an extensible platform that allows users to select from and implement different types of media processors and to providing a management portal that allows users to manage their media processors. In one scenario, a computer system receives from a user a workflow with various tasks that are to be processed using a user-specified media processor. The computer system schedules computer system resources including a virtual machine on which the user-specified media processor is to be installed. The user-specified media processor includes a corresponding media processor installer. The computer system instantiates the scheduled virtual machine on the computer system, initiates the media processor installer to install the user-specified media processor on the instantiated virtual machine, and implements the installed media processor on the instantiated virtual machine to process the workflow tasks.

Cloud based media processing workflows and module updating

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

Video editing and video playback utilizing a render-ahead queue for storing rendered video frames. The render-ahead queue facilitates the smooth playback of video in forward and reverse timeline direction, avoiding video glitches that occur when video frames are rendered at a rate that is less than the timeline rate of the video file. Embodiments of the present invention also include the use of a graphics processing unit in conjunction with the render-ahead queue to further ensure smooth playback of video.

GPU timeline with render-ahead queue

Updating automatically generated playlists in response to media content being edited. Aspects of the invention associate a playlist type or other code with each playlist to define the structure of the playlist. When media content is added to or deleted from a collection of media files, one or more playlist types corresponding to the media content are identified. The playlists with the identified playlist types are updated to reflect the addition or deletion of the media content.

Creating standardized playlists and maintaining coherency

Enabling efficient navigation of a playlist of media files stored on a computer-readable medium. Aspects of the invention define a playlist structure to have one or more playlist units. Each playlist unit identifies one or more media files in the playlist and includes metadata for the media files. A consumer electronic device retrieves the playlist units and displays the metadata contained therein to a user to enable navigation of the playlist. Aspects of the invention reduce the memory requirements of the consumer electronic devices and reduce the quantity of disk seek operations needed for playlist navigation.

Playlist structure for large playlists

Providing resiliency to a multimedia application. A list of filters associated with the multimedia application is identified. It is determined if one or more filters of the identified list of filters are suitable for the multimedia application. The one or more filters are disabled if the one or more filters are determined to be unsuitable for the multimedia application. The one or more filters of the list of filters may also be presented to a user of the multimedia application as a function of suitability of each of the list of filters for the multimedia application. The user is allowed to manage the presented one or more filters.

Multimedia filter resilience

A recording and reproducing system includes a DVD-RAM medium having a plurality of data files of storing predetermined data, file recording means of recording, in a play list file held by the DVD-RAM medium, a play list of describing reproduction order of reproducing the predetermined data stored in each of all or a part of the data files out of the plurality of data files by using a file name of the data file and a unique directory ID provided to a directory to which the data file belongs, and file reproducing means of reproducing the predetermined data stored by each of all or a part of the data files out of the plurality of data files based on the recorded play list.

Method and apparatus for reproducing play lists in record media

A system and method of creating trace information of an application. Trace data of the application is stored in a trace heap. Processing of stored trace data including a hard-coded string is deferred.

System and method for economizing trace operations

Pausing a graphic processing operation in order to continue processing a thread on a different desktop. When a graphic processing unit (GPU) is lost when a screen saver desktop is activated, the buffer containing the video frame that is currently being processed is discarded and a device is attempted to be created on the screen saver desktop which enables continued graphic processing.

Rendering with GPU during screen saver activation

A golf bag carrying case with club head protection and a method of protecting the club head of golf club stored in a golf bag during transport are disclosed. The method includes providing a first protective member disposed within a cavity near the top end for protecting the club heads in the golf bag, the first protective member having a first end within the cavity and the second end free and wrapping the first protective member at least partially around the club head of the golf club. The carrying case includes a protective member having a first end attached to an outer covering and a second end which is free to wrap at least partially around the club heads in the golf bag.

Golf bag carrying case

A golf bag carrying case with club head protection and method for using same, for use in transporting a golf bag having golf clubs with clubheads. The carrying case includes an outer covering having a first end and second end and a cavity formed therein for storing the golf bag and a protective member disposed within the cavity near the top end for protecting the clubheads in the golf bag. In its preferred form, the protective member has a first end attached to the outer covering and the second end which is free and capable of being wrapped around the clubheads and shafts in the golf bag, thereby reducing or eliminating damage to the clubheads and shafts from impact during transport. The invention also includes a new zipper opening design which allows easy access to a golf bag stored within the carrying case.

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Duvall, WA, United States of America

Brian James Walker