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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsJames C. Finger, John Andre Yovin, Khurshed Mazhar, Olivier Colle, Arthur William James Freeman
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Applications are managed in an interactive media environment by the creation of a logical model for the lifetime of an application. The model is applicable to concurrently and/or consecutively running applications and governs the creation of applications, manipulation of applications by other applications, resource consumption, visibility of an application to a user, and application shutdown in the interactive media environment using the construct of application “state.” A set of Booleans flags is utilized and unique combinations of elements in the Boolean flag set define a plurality of application states
A method for managing an application in an interactive media environment, the application providing one or more graphic objects that are synchronous with a video stream, the method comprising the steps of:
An interactive media player for use in an interactive media environment, comprising:
A method for shutting down an application running in an interactive media environment, the application providing one or more graphic objects that are synchronous with a video stream, the method comprising the steps of:
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