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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2009
Filed:
May. 03, 2004
Blake D. Manders, Kirkland, WA (US);
Joseph D. Ternasky, Mountain View, CA (US);
Oren Rosenbloom, Redmond, WA (US);
Vladimir Sadovsky, Bellevue, WA (US);
Blake D. Manders, Kirkland, WA (US);
Joseph D. Ternasky, Mountain View, CA (US);
Oren Rosenbloom, Redmond, WA (US);
Vladimir Sadovsky, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and related techniques are provided in the present invention, which generate an interrogation request from an initiator device, to a mobile or other media player. The binary objects which encode the content may include or have associated with them a set of corresponding object properties which help to define each object. According to embodiments of the invention, the initiator may communicate with the responding device using a media-aware protocol such that the initiator may identify one or all of the set of properties paired with all of the objects to be returned. The initiator may then present the objects along with the corresponding properties to a user to manipulate. Because properties may be retrieved in conjunction with, at the same time and using a unified retrieval scheme, the need to query each object identifier one by one for associated properties is removed.