Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rodrigo Maialle Bomfim

Anton Kucer

Thomas Leo Marquardt

Prakash Duggaraju

Andrew L Silverman

Sean E Kollenkark

Rajesh Hegde

Joseph Lloyd McClanahan

Samuel Ng

Zach Johnson

Bruno Kraychete Da Costa

Jake Carver Swenson

Shane McRoberts

Jeffrey Christopher Abraham

Prasanna Kudli

Robert N Pulliam

Ivan Shaporov

Steven Goulet

Jason Suess

A fault tolerant video streaming distribution service utilizes multiple distribution servers to receive and process a video stream simultaneously. Each distribution server performs a mapping of each encoded timestamp associated with a transport stream having time discontinuities to a continuous time sequence. The distribution servers coordinate the timestamp mapping through a distributed leader election protocol that elects a leader to coordinate the timestamp mapping in an environment where failures are anticipated and the number of distribution servers dynamically changes without notice.

Distributed fragment timestamp synchronization

Embodiments provide an abstraction on top of virtual machine allocation APIs to expose scalable services. The services are higher level components that expose a particular set of functionalities. A deployment manager handles matching and managing virtual machine allocations in order to meet the customer demands for the managed services. A deployment service exposes a 'service' as a unit of resource allocation in a distributed computing environment or cloud computing service. Client components interact with the deployment service to request new service instances to meet customer demand.

Scalable services deployment

Various embodiments related to the ability to find content for consumption across all endpoint computing devices in a computing system are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method for presenting content including aggregating endpoint metadata for each endpoint computing device in a computing system and content metadata of content stored on each of a plurality of endpoint computing devices, receiving a request for a content item on a selected endpoint computing device, querying aggregated endpoint metadata and content metadata to find instances of the content item and corresponding endpoint computing device locations, generating a ranked list of instances of the content item based on selection criteria, and selecting an instance of the content item from the ranked list for playback by the selected endpoint computing device.

Media content location awareness and decision making

Growing community of inventors

Sammamish, WA, United States of America

Rodrigo Maialle Bomfim