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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2007
Bret P. O'rourke, Kirkland, WA (US);
Dawson F. Dean, Redmond, WA (US);
Anton Kucer, Kirkland, WA (US);
Bret P. O'Rourke, Kirkland, WA (US);
Dawson F. Dean, Redmond, WA (US);
Anton Kucer, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Remond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for combining streaming media content items for streaming to a client computer across a network are described. In one aspect, a server computer receives a request from a client computer for one or more content items. Responsive to receiving the request, the server computer identifies a data structure that refers to the one or more further content items. The server computer modifies the data structure to reference the requested content items. The server computer provides the content items referenced by the modified data structure to the requesting client computer for streaming media content to a user.