Patent №
US 8,725,680
Granted
2014-05-13
Filed 2011
Owner
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Lab
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
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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