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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2005
Daniel Plastina, Sammamish, WA (US);
Michael J. Novak, Redmond, WA (US);
Jonathan Marshall Cain, Seattle, WA (US);
Keith W. Ballinger, North Bend, WA (US);
Frank Z. Chang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Judson Craig Hally, Sammamish, WA (US);
Daniel Plastina, Sammamish, WA (US);
Michael J. Novak, Redmond, WA (US);
Jonathan Marshall Cain, Seattle, WA (US);
Keith W. Ballinger, North Bend, WA (US);
Frank Z. Chang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Judson Craig Hally, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Integrated management of local and remote media files. A playlist of media files adapted for rendering by a media player application are located in either a local media library stored at the computer or a remote media library accessible by the computer via a data communication network or both. Media player operations may be performed on the playlist. A first identifier identifies each of the media files in the playlist and a second identifier represents a source of each of the media files in the playlist. A streaming locator defined by the first and second identifiers locates each of the media files in the playlist in the local media library and then in the remote library.