Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Daniel Rosenstein

Sander M Viegers

Clifford Paul Strom

Brian Patrick Evans

Alexandre Vicktorovich Grigorovitch

Chunkit Jacky Chan

Anand Paka

Dahey Yoo

Carmen Zlateff

Bradley G Weed

Ramona Canan

Omkar Anand Mehendale

Ivan D Romashka

Ian N Peth

Adam K Avery

Austin Rand Porter

James Morris Alkove

Matthew C Harvey

Patrik Schnell

Daniel G O'Neil

Geoffrey T Dunbar

William Bennett Mabry

Nicholas Jie Fang

Kedarnath Atmaram Dubhashi

Eduardo P Oliveira

Joshua M Kornfeld

Ming Ma

Scott J Fierstein

Matthew C Howard

Alex McKelvey

Satvir Randhawa

Mark L Beaubien

Anand D Paka

Eduardo Oliveria

Alex Mckelvey

Matthew L c/o Microsoft Corporation Howard

Sander Martijn Viegers

Packaging

Media sets may be presented as a media presentation (e.g., a slideshow or a thumbnail set), but many such presentations exhaust the attention of a user, particularly for large media sets. Instead, ratings may be identified that represents the relevance or interest of respective media objects of the media set to the user. These ratings may be identified explicitly by the user or automatically detected (e.g., by assessing image quality or monitoring user interactions with respective media objects). A zoomable media presentation of the media set may first present only media objects having a high rating, and upon zooming in near a media object, may insert, near the zoomed media object, one or more media objects associated with the zoomed media object and having a lower rating. This presentation therefore hierarchically organizes the media set, and utilizes zoom operations as a 'drill-down' metaphor within the hierarchy of the media set.

Hierarchical, zoomable presentations of media sets

Image curation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, one or more modules are launched for execution on a computing device. Responsive to the launch, criteria are generated automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules by a computing device. Images are curated using the generated criteria automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules, the curated images identified from a plurality of different image sources that are associated with a user. The curated images are caused to be displayed by a display device of the computing device automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules.

Image curation

Techniques enable building a collection of data that defines an asset, with the data possibly having differing data types. These techniques are then capable of assigning arbitrary policy to that asset, regardless of which data types are present within the asset. In addition, these techniques enable packaging of this first asset with one or more additional assets in a self-contained envelope. Each asset within the envelope may similarly include data of differing data types. Furthermore, each of these assets may be assigned a policy that may be different than the policy assigned to the first asset. This envelope, or a collection of envelopes, may then be provided to a content-consuming device to consume the assets in accordance with each asset's specified policy.

Managing digital rights for multiple assets in an envelope

A computing device segregates licenses for corresponding content according to relatively short lived licenses for relatively short lived content and relatively long lived licenses for relatively long lived content. The computing device stores the relatively short lived licenses in a more temporary and volatile license store, and the relatively long lived licenses in a more permanent and non-volatile license store. Thus, the relatively short lived licenses are deleted when the temporary license store is turned off and do not create disorder in the permanent license store.

Rights management system for streamed multimedia content

A sequence of content keys are shared between a receiver of pieces of digital content and a computing device upon which the content is to be rendered. The receiver encrypts each piece of content according to a corresponding content key in the sequence and forwards the encrypted content to the computing device and the computing device decrypts the encrypted content according to the corresponding content key. The receiver initially transmits to the computing device an initialization digital license with an initial content key (CK) therein. Each of the receiver and the computing device derive a new content key (CKx) in the sequence from the initial content key (CK()) in the sequence on an as-needed basis and in a coordinated fashion. The initialization license is required only once for the sequence of content keys, and the receiver need not explicitly communicate (CKx) to the computing device for each piece of content.

Technology for protecting a digital content including a first content protection system capable of decrypting the digital content, the digital content including an inclusion list; a linkable library providing access for an application to the functionality of the first content protection system, the application including a second content protection system; and a means for evaluating the second content protection system to determine if the second content protection system is on the inclusion list.

Transcryption of digital content between content protection systems

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