Patrick J Nelson

US Patent:

7571016, Aug 4, 2009

Filed:

Sep 8, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/221664

Inventors:

Shafiq Ur Rahman - Redmond WA, US
Alexandre Grigorovitch - Redmond WA, US
Adil Ahmed Sherwani - Redmond WA, US
Sumedh N. Barde - Redmond WA, US
Sohail Baig Mohammed - Redmond WA, US
Kirt A. Debique - Redmond WA, US
Kipley J. Olson - Redmond WA, US
Patrick Nicholas Nelson - Fairfax Station VA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/00
H04B 1/00
H04B 1/20

US Classification:

700 94, 381119, 369 4

Abstract:

A method of crossfading a plurality of audio files comprising opening a first process, opening a second process hosting an audio renderer in which a first audio file of the plurality of audio files is cross faded with a second audio file of the plurality of audio files.

US Patent:

7827554, Nov 2, 2010

Filed:

Jun 20, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/157113

Inventors:

Alexandre V. Grigorovitch - Redmond WA, US
Gaurav Lochan - Stanford CA, US
Patrick N. Nelson - Fairfax Station VA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/46
G06K 9/54

US Classification:

718102, 718100, 718104, 382303, 382304

Abstract:

Systems and/or methods are described that enable multi-threaded multimedia processing. These systems and/or methods may, in some embodiments, allocate threads for components of a multimedia pipeline based on input/output characteristics of the components. These systems and/or methods may also allocate threads and priorities for those threads based on a relative importance given components of two or more multimedia pipelines.

US Patent:

20100235743, Sep 16, 2010

Filed:

May 27, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/788676

Inventors:

Shafiq Ur Rahman - Redmond WA, US
Sohail Baig Mohammed - Redmond WA, US
Khurshed Mazhar - Kirkland WA, US
Kevin P. Larkin - Mercer Island WA, US
Patrick N. Nelson - Fairfax Station VA, US
Bret P. O'Rourke - Kirkland WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 3/14

US Classification:

715716

Abstract:

An exemplary system includes a media control operable to begin playing a media segment automatically after buffering the media segment, and a host application operable to receive a reference to the media segment, initialize the media control with the media segment, and cause the media control to postpone playing of the media segment after the media segment is buffered. An exemplary method includes receiving a playlist referencing a first media segment and a second media segment, the second media segment operable to play automatically without a prompt after being loaded, presenting the first media segment, and prerolling the second media segment.