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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2008
Edward M. Tecot, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shannon C. Hegg, Mountain View, CA (US);
Martine Habib, Woodside, WA (US);
Edward M. Tecot, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shannon C. Hegg, Mountain View, CA (US);
Martine Habib, Woodside, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
With at least one implementation described herein, one or more viewers are able to watch the same source multimedia content at multiple locations within an environment (e.g., a household). With at least one implementation described herein, a viewer is able to resume watching such content at a new location (or 'locus') from the point that she bookmarked the content at an original location. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present invention is pointed out in the appending claims.