Inventors:
William Thomas Blank - Bellevue WA, US
John B. Deutscher - Sammamish WA, US
Brian D. Honey - Auburn WA, US
Tyler V. Davis - Issaquah WA, US
John Conrad - Auburn WA, US
Andrew D. Rosen - Woodinville WA, US
Sunit Gogia - New Delhi, IN
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA
International Classification:
G06F 17/00
US Classification:
715200, 715716, 709208, 709248
Abstract:
A media synch player includes a time control module, a digital data storage and retrieval device coupled to and responsive to the time control module and an audiovisual data signal output configured to supply audiovisual data to a display by playing a first media file from the digital data storage and retrieval device in response to commands from a system controller. The time control module is configured to request a system time from an external time server, reset the time control module in accordance with the system time, lock to a master clock contained in the external time server and resynchronize the first time control module in response to predetermined criteria being met.