Patents by Inventor Aaron P. Starkey

Aaron P. Starkey has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Metadata retrieval protocols and namespace identifiers
    Publication number: 20040019658
    Abstract: Obtaining metadata for media content. Software according to the invention requests the metadata via a metadata query data structure (MDQ) such as a uniform resource locator and receives metadata in response via a metadata return data structure (MDR). The invention includes namespace identifiers such as WMContentID, WMCollectionID, and WMCollectionGroupID for instance-specific associations between media content and metadata. The invention also includes namespace identifiers such as WMPrimaryClassID and WMSecondaryClassID to classify the media content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Plastina, John Wesley Terrell, Jason E. D. McCartney, Keith Maurice Toussaint, David W. H. Hostetter, Thomas Brian Springer, Aaron P. Starkey