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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2002
William Thomas Blank, Bellevue, WA (US);
Donald M Gray, Iii, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert George Atkinson, Woodinville, WA (US);
Anand Valavi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William Thomas Blank, Bellevue, WA (US);
Donald M Gray, III, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert George Atkinson, Woodinville, WA (US);
Anand Valavi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method and system for disaggregating and connecting A/V components, and communicating A/V content stream information. An A/V stream from a source device is packaged for transmission over an IP network to one or more output devices. A brick device enables the integration of legacy A/V systems into the network supported A/V system. The brick device operates to provide analog signal and IP protocol conversion, along with the synchronization of received A/V stream data packets. The rendering and play of the A/V stream content on multiple output devices is synchronized to overcome distortions and other network idiosyncrasy and to facilitate a pleasant user experience.