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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2006
Daniel Plastina, Sammamish, WA (US);
Michael J. Novak, Redmond, WA (US);
Kipley J. Olson, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Michael M. Tse, Bellevue, WA (US);
David M. Nadalin, Sammamish, WA (US);
Phillip LU, Kirkland, WA (US);
Dennis A. Kiilerich, Kirkland, WA (US);
Andrew L. Silverman, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel Plastina, Sammamish, WA (US);
Michael J. Novak, Redmond, WA (US);
Kipley J. Olson, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Michael M. Tse, Bellevue, WA (US);
David M. Nadalin, Sammamish, WA (US);
Phillip Lu, Kirkland, WA (US);
Dennis A. Kiilerich, Kirkland, WA (US);
Andrew L. Silverman, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Coporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for managing a group of owned and for-purchase media items in response to a single user action. The method treats the owned media items and the for-purchase media items similarly with respect to the user's interaction with them, facilitating a user paradigm-shift from thinking about two stores of media items to a single store of media items available for use. A media item grouping generic to both types of media items is provided, permitting sharing of media item collections between users having different access rights with respect to the media items.