Yi Sun

US Patent:

6343298, Jan 29, 2002

Filed:

Jun 13, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/596234

Inventors:

Alexander V. Savchenko - Bellevue WA
Vivek Nirkhe - Redmond WA
Yi Sun - Kirkland WA
Robert B. Nelson - Redmond WA

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 1730

US Classification:

707104, 707205, 709103, 711 4

Abstract:

Described above are methods of authoring multimedia titles and of storing and delivering multimedia content that implements guaranteed seamless branching on digital media with high seek latency and a fixed upper bound on this latency. Continuous media content is arranged as individual clips on a storage medium. Seamless branches between clips are identified by an author. A method is disclosed to identify individual clips as carrier clips or non-carrier clips to guarantee specified seamless behavior while optimizing bridge memory usage and availability of seamless jumps. Bridge data of a particular target media clip is interleaved or otherwise associated on the storage medium with a carrier clip that is upstream of the target media clip, and delivered along with the upstream media clip. As bridge data are delivered, they are stored in bridge memory, to be used to implement a subsequent seamless branch. After the branch is implemented or after the branch is no longer an option, the bridge data is cleared from the bridge memory.

US Patent:

61115673, Aug 29, 2000

Filed:

Apr 3, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/826545

Inventors:

Alexander V. Savchenko - Bellevue WA
Vivek Nirkhe - Redmond WA
Yi Sun - Kirkland WA
Robert B. Nelson - Redmond WA

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 1730

US Classification:

345302

Abstract:

Described above are methods of authoring multimedia titles and of storing and delivering multimedia content that implements guaranteed seamless branching on digital media with high seek latency and a fixed upper bound on this latency. Continuous media content is arranged as individual clips on a storage medium. Seamless branches between clips are identified by an author. A method is disclosed to identify individual clips as carrier clips or non-carrier clips to guarantee specified seamless behavior while optimizing bridge memory usage and availability of seamless jumps. Bridge data of a particular target media clip is interleaved or otherwise associated on the storage medium with a carrier clip that is upstream of the target media clip, and delivered along with the upstream media clip. As bridge data are delivered, they are stored in bridge memory, to be used to implement a subsequent seamless branch. After the branch is implemented or after the branch is no longer an option, the bridge data is cleared from the bridge memory.

US Patent:

20140359213, Dec 4, 2014

Filed:

Jun 17, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/919895

Inventors:

- Redmond WA, US
Sumit Siva Dasan - Snoqualmie WA, US
Yi Sun - Bellevue WA, US
Bo Wu - Bellevue WA, US
Robert S. T. Gibson - Duvall WA, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/06

US Classification:

711114

Abstract:

Determining host machines on which to place a virtual machine. The method includes determining that a virtual machine to be deployed to a host will use a differencing disk chain based off of one or more base disks. One or more hosts are identified having the one or more base disks already available to the one or more hosts. One of the one or more hosts is selected at which to place the virtual machine based on the one or more hosts having the one or more base disks already available to the one or more hosts. The virtual machine is placed at the selected host.