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Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2011

Filed:

Jun. 15, 2007
Applicants:

Curtis G. Wong, Medina, WA (US);

Dale A. Sather, Seattle, WA (US);

Kenneth Reneris, Clyde Hill, WA (US);

Thaddeus C. Pritchett, Edmonds, WA (US);

Talal Ali Batrouny, Sammamish, WA (US);

Inventors:

Curtis G. Wong, Medina, WA (US);

Dale A. Sather, Seattle, WA (US);

Kenneth Reneris, Clyde Hill, WA (US);

Thaddeus C. Pritchett, Edmonds, WA (US);

Talal Ali Batrouny, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/167 (2011.01); H04K 1/04 (2006.01); H04K 1/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that asynchronously disseminates multimedia content to disparate clients. The disclosed system can include a component that receives multimedia content supplied by a multimedia publisher, encrypts or applies a time sensitive lock to the received multimedia content, disseminates the encrypted or locked multimedia content to the disparate clients, and a time subsequent, generates and distributes to the disparate clients a counterpart to the time sensitive lock necessary to unlock and play the disseminated and encrypted or locked multimedia content on the clients.


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