MEDIA CONTENT LOCATION AWARENESS AND DECISION MAKING

Patent №

US 8,725,680

Granted

2014-05-13

Filed 2011

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

3

ml · nlp · kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13023413

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.

AI classification

Knowledge representation1.00
Natural language0.81
Machine learning0.64
Planning0.38
AI hardware0.07
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 257700598

Assignors

ABRAHAM, JEFFREY C., DA COSTA, BRUNO K., JOHNSON, ZACH, MCROBERTS, SHANE, SILVERMAN, ANDREW L., MCCLANAHAN, JOSEPH, PULLIAM, ROBERT N., BOMFIM, RODRIGO, KOLLENKARK, SEAN

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