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Inventor

Dawson F. Dean

Patents indexed

1

Year range

2006

Associated with

Years active

2006

Total patents

1

Most recent

2006

Frequent collaborator

Bret P. O'Rourke

Domains

softwaretelecommunicationsconsumer_electronics

Activity by decade

2000s
1

Patents

1

Career timeline

1 patents, in 2006

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20062007

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US 6990497·2006·Microsoft Corp

How to Play Any Media Playlist by Converting it to a Standard Format

This patent describes a system that takes media playlists in various formats, converts them into a single standard format, and then streams the referenced content, even allowing for dynamic changes during playback.

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