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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2010
Scott Porter, Sammamish, WA (US);
Charlie Nilsson, Sammamish, WA (US);
Ryan Andrew Powell, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott Porter, Sammamish, WA (US);
Charlie Nilsson, Sammamish, WA (US);
Ryan Andrew Powell, Seattle, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method of associating metadata with digital content items is provided. The method includes determining portions of a digital content item containing content meriting associating of preexisting or dynamically-determined metadata information, associating such preexisting or dynamically-determined metadata with selected portions of the digital content item via application of tags to the selected portions, and controlling, during a dynamically unfolding time interval definable via timestamps, subsequent consumption of the digital content item based on the intermittent presence of tags.