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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2003
William Thomas Blank, Bellevue, WA (US);
John B. Deutscher, Sammamish, WA (US);
Brian D. Honey, Auburn, WA (US);
Tyler V. Davis, Issaquah, WA (US);
John Conrad, Auburn, WA (US);
Andrew D. Rosen, Woodinville, WA (US);
Sunit Gogia, New Delhi, IN;
William Thomas Blank, Bellevue, WA (US);
John B. Deutscher, Sammamish, WA (US);
Brian D. Honey, Auburn, WA (US);
Tyler V. Davis, Issaquah, WA (US);
John Conrad, Auburn, WA (US);
Andrew D. Rosen, Woodinville, WA (US);
Sunit Gogia, New Delhi, IN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A media synch player includes a time control module, a digital data storage and retrieval device coupled to and responsive to the time control module and an audiovisual data signal output configured to supply audiovisual data to a display by playing a first media file from the digital data storage and retrieval device in response to commands from a system controller. The time control module is configured to request a system time from an external time server, reset the time control module in accordance with the system time, lock to a master clock contained in the external time server and resynchronize the first time control module in response to predetermined criteria being met.