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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2005
Tedd Dideriksen, Woodinville, WA (US);
Chris Feller, Bellevue, WA (US);
Geoffrey Harris, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael J. Novak, Redmond, WA (US);
Kipley J. Olson, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Tedd Dideriksen, Woodinville, WA (US);
Chris Feller, Bellevue, WA (US);
Geoffrey Harris, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael J. Novak, Redmond, WA (US);
Kipley J. Olson, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are described that assist media players in rendering different media types. In some embodiments, a unified rendering area is provided and managed such that multiple different media types are rendered by the media player in the same user interface area. This unified rendering area thus permits different media types to be presented to a user in an integrated and organized manner. An underlying object model promotes the unified rendering area by providing a base rendering object that has properties that are shared among the different media types. Object sub-classes are provided and are each associated with a different media type, and have properties that extend the shared properties of the base rendering object. In addition, an inventive approach to visualizations is presented that provides better synchronization between a visualization and its associated audio stream.