Robert Charles Pulliam

US Patent:

20120203796, Aug 9, 2012

Filed:

Feb 8, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/023413

Inventors:

Jeffrey C. Abraham - Seattle WA, US
Bruno K. da Costa - Redmond WA, US
Zach Johnson - Woodinville WA, US
Shane McRoberts - Seattle WA, US
Andrew L. Silverman - Redmond WA, US
Joseph McClanahan - Redmond WA, US
Robert N. Pulliam - Seattle WA, US
Rodrigo Bomfim - Renton WA, US
Sean Kollenkark - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 9/44

US Classification:

707770, 719328, 707E17014

Abstract:

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.