Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kasy Srinivas

Daniel F Plastina

Anders Edgar Klemets

James Walter

William F Schiefelbein

C Douglas Hodges

Barend Hermanus Venter

Michael J Polson

John Wesley Terrell

Andrew J Jaffray

Pradeep K Jha

Bruno Kraychete Da Costa

Mala Munisamy

Edward T Gausman

Eric Louchez

James T Walter, Jr

Praveen Singh Rao

Dan Plastina

An arrangement is provided in which a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) device exposes a service for mapping a UPnP discovered content item to a server message block (SMB) location. The service is arranged to expose an SMB share path to a user at a remote client using a UPnP protocol, The user is then enabled with access to the share via SMB to gain file access, write changes or exercise file level control of the discovered content item. Authentication is optionally utilized to verify that the user is authorized to receive the SMB share location from the service or to verify that the user is authorized to access the SMB share.

Mapping universal plug and play discovered items to an SMB location

An arrangement is provided in which a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) device exposes a service for mapping a UPnP discovered content item to a server message block (SMB) location. The service is arranged to expose an SMB share path to a user at a remote client using a UPnP protocol. The user is then enabled with access to the share via SMB to gain file access, write changes or exercise file level control of the discovered content item. Authentication is optionally utilized to verify that the user is authorized to receive the SMB share location from the service or to verify that the user is authorized to access the SMB share.

A secure handshake service is implemented among a plurality of UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) portable media devices and endpoints in an open network hosting one or more UPnP services. A first portable media device receives a first request for a hosted service from a second portable media device via the network. The first portable media device authenticates authorizes the second portable media device as a function of the certificate of the request. The second portable media device is allowed to access the requested service hosted on the first portable media device if the second portable media device has been authenticated and authorized by the first portable media device.

UPnP authentication and authorization

Collecting and augmenting metadata associated with media content stored on a plurality of devices for display to a user. The collected metadata remains available (e.g., visible) to a user after the device storing the corresponding media content is offline, disconnected, or otherwise unavailable. In particular, the invention permits metadata associated with media content stored on one or more devices (e.g., consumer electronic devices) to be enumerated, obtained, and promoted into another device (e.g., a personal computer) such that the metadata may be treated as if the media content is stored on the other device (e.g., the personal computer). In particular, the invention automatically detects an event generated in response to an action by a first device storing a media file. In response to the detected event, the invention matches and obtains metadata for the media content stored in the media file. A user organizes or otherwise manipulates the obtained metadata, for example, via a media player.

Aggregating metadata for media content from multiple devices

Methods, computer-readable media, and data structures for building an authoritative database of digital audio identifier elements from digital media accessed by clients. The digital media including one or more media items, such as tracks on a CD. The methods, computer-readable media, and data structures further identifying metadata associated with a media item accessed by a client utilizing the authoritative database of digital audio identifier elements.

Methods, computer-readable media, and data structures for building an authoritative database of digital audio identifier elements and identifying media items

A container object decorated with a proxy attribute is intercepted when instantiated at runtime, and a component that is an instance of a type dynamically created at runtime is returned, which implements interfaces corresponding to each of the individual interfaces of the objects extended in the container object by delegating to the extended objects. Alternately, a similar container object, when instantiated at runtime, would return a proxy object which contains a lookup table that maps interfaces to the extended objects within the component. The proxy object intercepts all calls to the container object and redirects them appropriately to the proxy objects corresponding to the extended objects, which may in turn redirect calls appropriately.

Systems and methods for implementing aggregation containers

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