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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2006
Matthijs A. Gates, Wellesley, MA (US);
Kenneth Reneris, Redmond, WA (US);
Dale Sather, Redmond, WA (US);
Matthijs A. Gates, Wellesley, MA (US);
Kenneth Reneris, Redmond, WA (US);
Dale Sather, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An application program interface to manage media files may be described. An apparatus may comprise a media processing sub-system having a processor and a memory. The memory may store an application program interface software library having multiple software objects. The processor may execute the software objects in response to application program interface commands in order to manage a virtual file comprising a hierarchy of name-value pairs used to store media content from multiple media streams. Other embodiments are described and claimed.