Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Steve Capps

Mark H Lucovsky

Amit Mital

Joseph D Belfiore

Eric D Rudder

David G Campbell

Tandy Woodson Trower, Ii

Keith W Short

Steven M Cellini

Vivek Gundotra

Peter M Spiro

Charles T Fitzgerald

Timothy Daniel Noonan

Tandy W Trower, Ii

Kaviraj Singh

David Vaskevitch

Paul A Maritz

Paul Martiz

A server federation cooperatively interacts to fulfill service requests by communicating using data structures that follow a schema in which the meaning of the communicated data is implied by the schema. Thus, in addition to the data being communicated, the meaning of the data is also communication allowing for intelligent decisions and inferences to be made based on the meaning of the data. Cooperative interaction is facilitated over a wide variety of networks by messaging through a common API that supports multiple transport mechanisms. Also, mid-session transfer between client devices is facilitated by schema and the transport-independent messaging structure. The user interfaces of the client devices will appear consistent even if the client devices have different user interface capabilities.

Distributed computing services platform

A universal media player designed to improve a user's online media experience that is preferably embedded in an Internet browser is disclosed. The universal media player allows a user to navigate between different sources of media without requiring the downloading of the media player associated with the format of the media source. The universal media player includes an interface with user-actuable control buttons, the universal media player determining whether incoming media is playable by the universal media player. If the incoming media is playable by the universal media player, the media is intercepted as the media is downloaded and redirected to the universal media player. Determining if the media is playable is accomplished by identifying the type of incoming media and searching a table of MIME media types.

Universal media player

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