Microsoft Assigned Patent

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, has been assigned a patent (8,904,457), developed by Sood Vishal, Bothell, WA, Duggaraju Krishna P., Redmond, WA, Zhang Geqiang,Woodinville, WA, Kucer Anton, Redmond, WA, Cheng Raymond W. C., Sammamish, WA and Gao Jimin, Redmond, WA , for a “archiving a live media presentation.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computer-implemented method for archiving a live media presentation includes archiving the live media presentation as it is being streamed from a live server, wherein the archiving includes recording the live media presentation in fixed-length segments. A segment name is associated with each of the segments, wherein each of the segment names includes a time stamp. The fixed-length segments are stored on a video on-demand VOD server. A manifest is generated that describes at least a portion of the live media presentation and identifies a uniform resource locator URL to be used by a client device to access a first one of the segments, wherein the URL includes the segment name of the first segment.“

The patent application was filed on December 28, 2012 (13/729,46).