Media content location awareness and decision making

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8725680
APP PUB NO 20120203796A1
SERIAL NO

13023413

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Various embodiments related to the ability to find content for consumption across all endpoint computing devices in a computing system are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method for presenting content including aggregating endpoint metadata for each endpoint computing device in a computing system and content metadata of content stored on each of a plurality of endpoint computing devices, receiving a request for a content item on a selected endpoint computing device, querying aggregated endpoint metadata and content metadata to find instances of the content item and corresponding endpoint computing device locations, generating a ranked list of instances of the content item based on selection criteria, and selecting an instance of the content item from the ranked list for playback by the selected endpoint computing device.

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  • MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Abraham, Jeffrey C Seattle, US 2 75
Bomfim, Rodrigo Renton, US 2 75
da, Costa Bruno K Redmond, US 3 110
Johnson, Zach Woodinville, US 10 462
Kollenkark, Sean Seattle, US 21 345
McClanahan, Joseph Redmond, US 11 206
McRoberts, Shane Seattle, US 3 82
Pulliam, Robert N Seattle, US 2 19
Silverman, Andrew L Redmond, US 19 747

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