US 7,502,820 B2
System and method for optimized property retrieval of stored objects
Blake D. Manders, Kirkland, Wash. (US); Joseph D. Ternasky, Mountain View, Calif. (US); Oren Rosenbloom, Redmond, Wash. (US); and Vladimir Sadovsky, Bellevue, Wash. (US)
Assigned to Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Wash. (US)
Filed on May 03, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/836,260.
Prior Publication US 2006/0031384 A1, Feb. 09, 2006
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 709—203  [709/217; 709/219; 709/231] 31 Claims
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1. A system for generating a request for retrieval of a set of media object properties, comprising:
an interface to a responder device storing a set of media objects, each of the media objects having an associated set of media object properties; and
a media engine, the media engine communicating with the interface to generate a media enumeration request comprising an aggregate object property command that includes a set of parameters, each parameter having one or more associated fields, each field specifying a value of an associated parameter, wherein, based on the aggregate object property command, the media enumeration request selectively retrieves a plurality of the media object properties corresponding to the set of parameters, for the set of media objects from the responder device.