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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2002
Kirt Debique, Seattle, WA (US);
Rebecca C. Weiss, Kirkland, WA (US);
Brian D. Crites, Sammamish, WA (US);
Daniel J. Miller, Carnation, WA (US);
Robin C. B. Speed, Kirkland, WA (US);
Dong Wei, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sohail B. Mohammed, Redmond, WA (US);
Alexandre Grigorovitch, Redmond, WA (US);
Geoffrey T. Dunbar, Kirkland, WA (US);
Kirt Debique, Seattle, WA (US);
Rebecca C. Weiss, Kirkland, WA (US);
Brian D. Crites, Sammamish, WA (US);
Daniel J. Miller, Carnation, WA (US);
Robin C. B. Speed, Kirkland, WA (US);
Dong Wei, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sohail B. Mohammed, Redmond, WA (US);
Alexandre Grigorovitch, Redmond, WA (US);
Geoffrey T. Dunbar, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A computing system, which is in communication with a multimedia source and that includes at least one application for processing multimedia content from the multimedia source, includes an Application Programming Interface (API) for obtaining basic multimedia information that may be required by applications to process the multimedia content. By doing this, the invention enables multimedia application(s) to easily obtain the basic information from the API in a predetermined and standard manner, without having to obtain the information directly from the multimedia source, thereby reducing the functionality that has to be programmed directly into the application(s) for obtaining the basic information, and thereby reducing the cost, time, and resources that are required for creating the multimedia application(s).