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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014

Filed:

Dec. 02, 2010
Applicants:

Sean K Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);

Majd Bakar, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sean K Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);

Majd Bakar, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 60/33 (2008.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/4363 (2011.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4126 (2013.01); H04N 21/4661 (2013.01); H04N 21/8186 (2013.01); H04N 21/43637 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0203 (2013.01); H04N 21/4758 (2013.01);
Abstract

In embodiments of media asset voting, a voting application is executed at a controllable device to interface the controllable device with portable devices via a wireless network. The voting application may be initiated at the controllable device by one of the portable devices. A request can be communicated from the controllable device to the portable devices to initiate each of the portable devices sending a user-selected vote for media asset selection at the controllable device. The controllable device receives the user-selected votes from one or more of the portable devices, and the voting application can aggregate each received vote to determine voting results. A media asset can then be selected at the controllable device based on the voting results. Alternatively or in addition, the voting results can be displayed for viewing on a display device that corresponds to the controllable device.


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