MARK DAVID WAGNER, M.D.
Osteopathic Medicine at 45 St, Seattle, WA

2007017, Jul 26, 2007

Jan 20, 2006

11/275656

Elizabeth McEnroe - Palo Alto CA, US
Thomas Taylor - Redmond WA, US
Mark Wagner - Seattle WA, US
Peter Potrebic - Calistoga CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 11/00

714004000

Embodiments of a manager/remote content architecture are described herein. The architecture, for instance, may provide management of content received from a content provider, such as to determine which client devices are authorized to output the content. Techniques are also described which allow one of the remote client devices to act as a “limited manager” to allocate content usage by the architecture when the manager client device is not available.

7730510, Jun 1, 2010

Sep 19, 2002

10/247982

Mark Wagner - Seattle WA, US
Peter J. Potrebic - Calistoga CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 3/00, G06F 13/00, H04N 5/445

725 58, 725112, 725133

Methods and systems for controlling entertainment systems are described. In accordance with one embodiment, one or more conditional directives are developed and injected from externally of an entertainment system into the system. The conditional directives direct the entertainment system to conditionally perform some action that is directed to enhancing the user's experience. Typically, the conditional directives come from an external third party. A conditional directive comprises one or more conditions and one or more actions. The conditions define conditions that are to be met before an action is performed. The actions define actions that are to be performed in the event that one or more associated conditions are met.

7107608, Sep 12, 2006

Oct 1, 2001

09/968486

Mark Wagner - Seattle WA, US
Paul J. Roy - Menlo Park CA, US
Aaron DeYonker - San Francisco CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 3/00, H04N 7/173, H04N 7/16

725110, 725 86, 725112, 725115, 725131, 725139

Systems and methods for remotely scheduling tasks that are transmitted to a set top box and implemented on the set top box. A task service includes a website that provides program guide data to users. From the program guide data, a user selects a task. The website generates a notification that includes the task and certain identifiers, including a set top box identifier and a sequence number. The notification is sent to a notification service, that repeatedly sends the notification to a broadcast service. The broadcast service ensures that the notification is transmitted to the set top box. The set top box detects the notification from the set top box identifier and implements the task on the set top box unless the task has been previously handled.

2007017, Jul 26, 2007

Jan 20, 2006

11/275648

Elizabeth McEnroe - Palo Alto CA, US
Thomas Taylor - Redmond WA, US
Mark Wagner - Seattle WA, US
Peter Potrebic - Calistoga CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04N 7/173

725095000, 725086000, 725087000

Embodiments of token bandwidth portioning techniques are described herein. Tokens may be designated to streams of content allocated to a viewing system by a contact provider. The viewing system, for instance, may include a plurality of client devices that are configured to consume the streams of content. The consumption of the streams of content by the client devices is managed through use of the tokens such that the bandwidth allocated by the content provider to the viewing system is not exceeded.

2007018, Aug 2, 2007

Jan 30, 2006

11/275820

Elizabeth McEnroe - Palo Alto CA, US
Thomas Taylor - Redmond WA, US
Mark Wagner - Seattle WA, US
Peter Potrebic - Calistoga CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/173

709226000

Embodiments of changeable token bandwidth protioning techniques are described herein. Techniques are described in which different types of tokens are designated to streams of content that are allocated to a viewing system by a content provider and that have different respective bandwidths. The viewing system includes a plurality of client devices that are configured to consume the streams of content. The consumption of the streams of content by the client devices is managed through use of the tokens such that the bandwidth allocated by the content provider to the viewing system is not exceeded. When a second client device in the viewing system attempts content consumption that would cause the viewing system to exceed the amount bandwidth allocated to the viewing system, the type of token assigned to a first client device is changed to another type that uses less bandwidth.

7640570, Dec 29, 2009

Mar 5, 2007

11/682225

Mark Wagner - Seattle WA, US
Paul J. Roy - Menlo Park CA, US
Aaron DeYonker - San Francisco CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04N 7/173, H04N 7/16, H04N 5/91

725132, 725134, 725140, 725142, 725152, 725110, 386 83

Systems and methods for remotely scheduling tasks that are transmitted to a set top box and implemented on the set top box. A task service includes a website that provides program guide data to users. From the program guide data, a user selects a task. The website generates a notification that includes the task and certain identifiers, including a set top box identifier and a sequence number. The notification is sent to a notification service, that repeatedly sends the notification to a broadcast service. The broadcast service ensures that the notification is transmitted to the set top box. The set top box detects the notification from the set top box identifier and implements the task on the set top box unless the task has been previously handled.

2007020, Aug 30, 2007

Feb 28, 2006

11/276445

Elizabeth McEnroe - Palo Alto CA, US
Thomas Taylor - Redmond WA, US
Mark Wagner - Seattle WA, US
Peter Potrebic - Calistoga CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06Q 10/00, G06Q 30/00

705001000, 705035000

Embodiments of purchasable token bandwidth portioning techniques are described herein. Tokens are designated to portion bandwidth, allocated by a content provider to stream contents, to a plurality of client devices as a group. When one of the client devices attempts to consume content that would cause the group to exceed the allocated amount of bandwidth, an additional token is purchased.

7634652, Dec 15, 2009

Jan 12, 2006

11/275530

Elizabeth Rose McEnroe - Palo Alto CA, US
Mark Wagner - Seattle WA, US
Peter J. Potrebic - Calistoga CA, US
Thomas H. Taylor - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04L 9/00

713153, 713163

Embodiments of streaming content management are described herein. For example, techniques may be employed to manage streams received by client devices such that the client devices may receive content and share functionality.