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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:
Oct. 14, 2014

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2008
Applicant:

Jonathan I. Aroner, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventor:

Jonathan I. Aroner, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30029 (2013.01); G06F 17/30058 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and methods for aggregating content, displaying the aggregated content to a user for selection, and if more than one of the same file is detected, determining which file to play back to the user. When a request to view a certain type of content is received from the user, personal content themes are identified based on content stored on the user's local network. Remote content providers are searched for content relevant to the personal content themes. The relevant content is displayed to the user based on a total relevance score. The user selects a piece of content displayed in the interface. If more than one media file for the selected piece of content is identified, the optimal media file is selected and played back to the user.


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