Patent 7475078 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on January, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system and method for retrieving media data from a portable media device for storage on a client computer during synchronization between the portable media device and the client computer. A media player application (MPA) identifies media data on the portable media device that has been modified since a last synchronization process, and automatically or selectively retrieves the modified and/or unmodified media data from the portable media device for storage on the client computer.