Kevin T Carle, Age 47Woodland Hills, CA

7516140, Apr 7, 2009

May 30, 2006

11/421008

Federico Garcea - Sunnyvale CA, US
David D Good - Redmond WA, US
David N Junod - Evans GA, US
Kevin T. Carle - Mountain View CA, US
Landon M Dyer - Medina WA, US
Peter T. Barrett - Palo Alto CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/00
G06F 13/00

707100, 725 42

Raw media metadata can be packaged as dense media metadata via a compression operation. In a described implementation, metadata for a media item is defined with a media item entry that references instances of property values in one or more property tables.

7644103, Jan 5, 2010

Jan 25, 2005

11/042480

Geoffrey R Smith - Mountain View CA, US
Kevin T. Carle - Mountain View CA, US
Michael A. Cleron - Menlo Park CA, US
Victor S. Lee - Sunnyvale CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00
H04N 7/173

7071041, 725 87, 725 93, 725131

A MediaDescription data structure that includes both descriptive metadata, such as EPG information, about a multimedia content item and instructions for acquiring the content item is assigned to each multimedia content item in a multimedia system. A MediaDescription data structure is transferable as a token for representing the content item. The acquisition information may also include information about presenting the content item in different view contexts, as well as information about relationships to other pieces of content, and information about how each different version of the content item is to be acquired and displayed. MediaDescription data structure tokens can be used to facilitate digital video recording (DVR) processes, Internet content rendering processes, multimedia search processes, search results aggregating processes, video-on-demand (VOD) processes, pay-per-view processes, and program guide rendering processes.

7698304, Apr 13, 2010

Mar 17, 2006

11/276915

David A. Collacott - Sunnyvale CA, US
Kevin T. Carle - Mountain View CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 12/00

707200, 709232

A distributed system is described that includes a notification module and multiple data-providing modules for delivering updated data to client devices. The notification module notifies the client devices of a version of the updated data. A client device then requests the identified version of the updated data. In response to the request, the distributed system selects one of the data-providing modules to provide the updated data. The selected data-providing module determines whether it has finished processing the requested version of the updated data. If so, the selected data-providing module provides the updated data; if not, the selected data-providing module rejects the request. If rejected, the client device generates another request, prompting the distributed system to select another data-providing module. The client device continues to generate requests in this manner until a request is accepted, which will eventually happen because all data-providing modules will eventually finish processing the updated data.

8011012, Aug 30, 2011

Feb 17, 2006

11/276227

Kevin T. Carle - Mountain View CA, US
David L. de Heer - Woodside CA, US
Majd Bakar - Sunnyvale CA, US
Richard L. Guthrie - Mountain View CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04N 7/025
H04N 7/167

726 27, 725 32, 725 27, 725 28, 725 35, 725 31, 380200, 380210, 380255, 380277, 713150, 726 28, 726 29

Multiple keys are distributed to multiple clients. The keys provide access to media content. A group of clients are identified to receive substituted media content during a predetermined time period. Modified keys are generated that identify the substituted media content and the predetermined time period. The modified keys are distributed to the group of clients. The modified keys cause the group of clients to receive the substituted media content during the predetermined time period.

8065696, Nov 22, 2011

Mar 19, 2004

10/805030

Kevin T. Carle - Mountain View CA, US
Ann E. Chapman - Santa Cruz CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04N 7/16
H04N 7/173

725 8, 725 1, 725 88

In an implementation of control-based content pricing, a content server distributes media content to a client device in response to a request from the client device to receive the media content. A valuation application allocates a cost to the client device when the media content is distributed to the client device. The content server receives a view control input from the client device that indicates how the media content is to be rendered and the valuation application adjusts the cost according to the view control input and how the media content is to be rendered.

2005021, Sep 22, 2005

Mar 19, 2004

10/805031

Daniel Zigmond - Menlo Park CA, US
Samuel Scott - Los Gatos CA, US
Kevin Carle - Mountain View CA, US

H04N007/173
H04N007/10
H04N007/025

725032000, 725135000

A system records a video program as well as metadata associated with the video program. The system then receives updated metadata associated with the video program. The previously recorded metadata is replaced with the updated metadata.

2005021, Sep 22, 2005

Mar 22, 2004

10/806977

Kevin Carle - Mountain View CA, US
Daniel Zigmond - Menlo Park CA, US

H04N007/173
G06F011/00
H04N007/16

725105000, 725131000, 725139000, 725151000

A method initializes a client device that has an associated identifier. The identifier is communicated to a configuration server that contains configuration information associated with the client device. The configuration information is received from the configuration server and is applied to the client device. Video data is also received from the configuration server.

2005025, Nov 10, 2005

May 7, 2004

10/841123

Samuel Scott - Los Gatos CA, US
Kevin Carle - Mountain View CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04N007/173
H04N007/16
H04N007/10
H04N007/025

725088000, 725102000, 725089000, 725135000, 725032000

An operations center stores a plurality of programs, some of which are pre-recorded, and some of which are in the process of being recorded. Pause and resumption functionality allows the user to pause the presentation of such programs using different pause modes, and to later resume the presentation of the programs. In a selective pause mode, the user can selectively pause an individual program. This prompts the storage of a bookmark which indicates a pause position in the individual program. In a pause all mode, the user can pause a plurality of programs at the same time. This prompts the storage of a plurality of bookmarks that are associated with the plurality of programs. In a third pause mode, the user can automatically pause a program by the act of switching from that program to another program. This prompts the storage of a bookmark which indicates a position in the program from which the user has switched away.