Miguel A Valdez

US Patent:

7664882, Feb 16, 2010

Filed:

Apr 22, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/829503

Inventors:

Sohail Baig Mohammed - Redmond WA, US
Alexandre V. Grigorovitch - Redmond WA, US
Kirt A. Debique - Seattle WA, US
Rebecca C. Weiss - Menlo Park CA, US
Sumedh N. Barde - Redmond WA, US
Miguel M. Valdez - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709250, 709231

Abstract:

Systems and methods described herein provide access to multimedia content of varying types from a variety of sources using a uniform resource locator (URL).

US Patent:

20070035559, Feb 15, 2007

Filed:

Aug 12, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/203675

Inventors:

Alexandre Grigorovitch - Redmond WA, US
Jay Senior - Seattle WA, US
Jonathan Cain - Seattle WA, US
Gurpratap Virdi - Bellevue WA, US
Sohail Mohammed - Redmond WA, US
Kirt Debique - Seattle WA, US
Gareth Howell - Kirkland WA, US
Tim Cowley - Seattle WA, US
Miguel Valdez - Redmond WA, US
Stephen Estrop - Carnation WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G09G 5/00

US Classification:

345629000

Abstract:

Compositing functionality is provided in the form of an application program interface (API) that applications can utilize to composite images on video data that is to be rendered. In at least some embodiments, this functionality is exposed in a multimedia pipeline towards the end of the multimedia pipeline, such as at or by a renderer component. A set of methods exposed by the API permit an application to create and manage image compositing.

US Patent:

20080256341, Oct 16, 2008

Filed:

Apr 11, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/734254

Inventors:

Tomer Weisberg - Haifa, IL
Gurpratap Virdi - Bellevue WA, US
Thobias Jones - Redmond WA, US
Miguel M. Valdez - Redmond WA, US
Alexandre V. Grigorovitch - Redmond WA, US
Matthew Howard - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/30

US Classification:

712220, 712E09016

Abstract:

Strategies for automatically selecting the most appropriate processing pipeline (or runtime) for a particular data item are described. In one embodiment, a media playing application automatically selects the most appropriate media processing pipeline for a media data item from multiple available processing pipelines, or candidates. In this regard, the application makes this selection by utilizing heuristic techniques to identify which available pipeline provides the most enhanced playback experience to a user with respect to certain attributes such as supported playback features and security. These heuristic techniques can take one or more criteria into account and can be implemented in any suitable way. By way of example and not limitation, in one embodiment, a selection process is used wherein potential pipeline candidates are ordered and sequentially evaluated.