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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2007
Applicants:
Michael Victor Smith, Fremont, CA (US);
Jeff Du, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Michael Victor Smith, Fremont, CA (US);
Jeff Du, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04N 7/00 (2011.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Audio stream management techniques are described. In an implementation, a unique representation is generated by a client for each of a plurality of audio streams associated with television content received at the client. Each of the unique representations is displayed in a user interface at the client to be selectable by a user to cause output of a respective audio stream with the television content.