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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2005
David W. Baumert, Sammamish, WA (US);
Flora P. Goldthwaite, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregory L. Hendrickson, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan Cluts, Sammamish, WA (US);
David W. Baumert, Sammamish, WA (US);
Flora P. Goldthwaite, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregory L. Hendrickson, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan Cluts, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A mediator having at least a ranking component, a listening component, and a control component, selectively controls a group of devices from a plurality of network devices in a network environment to reproduce multimedia content. The mediator correlates the multimedia content with the plurality of network devices. The listening component collects data about the network environment to enhance a user's experience with the multimedia content. The mediator utilizes the network environment data and the correlation of the multimedia content and the plurality of network devices to automatically select the group devices from the plurality of network devices that maximize a user's viewing or listening pleasure when reproducing the multimedia content on the group of devices.