Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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Aaron Wesley Cunningham

Marieke Iwema Watson

Patrice Lynn Miner

Amer A Hassan

David T Jones

Michael A LaJoie

Adrienne E O'Donnell

Robert Kenneth Stein, Iii

Tjeerd Hoek

David A Roberts

Brian Larsen

Bill Begorre

Mark R Ligameri

Greg S Melander

Jenny T Lam

Paul Alexander Gusmorino, Iii

Michael Jay Gilmore

Robert Ward Massa

Benjamin N Truelove

Bryan Pieratt

Taroon Mandhana

Martijn Eldert Van Tilburg

Ryan S Menezes

Luciana Bordallo Misura

Michael Curato

Billy Anders

Shawna Swanson

Dhiraj P Gandhi

Talos Shu-Ming Tsui

Michael Anthony Martinez

Christina Szi-Gia Chen

Shankar Seal

Todd R Manion

Mitesh K Desai

Sandeep Singhal

Alexandru Gavrilescu

Andrew Thomas Baron

Gursharan Singh Sidhu

Srinivas Raghu Gatta

Yatharth Gupta

Deon Brewis

Haiyong Wang

Paul W Mitchell

Dennis A Morgan

Savas Guven

Rahul Chandran

Arun K Buduri

Ravi Rao

David G Thaler

Noah Horton

Marco Piumatti

Eliot John Flannery

Ulrich Mueller

Ashraf Hamad

Alok Sinha

Darene Brice Lewis

Martijn Van Tilburg

Jonathan Dahlke

Patrice Lynn Minor

David Jones

This disclosure describes, in part, covers for electronic devices. For instance, a portion of a cover may attach to a portion of an electronic device. In some instances, the portion of the electronic device is associated with receiving sound. The cover may include one or more speakers that are configured to output sound towards one or more microphones of the electronic device. By outputting the sound towards the one or more microphones, the one or more microphones may receive more of the sound than sound (e.g., user speech) located in an environment that includes the electronic device. The cover may also include one or more microphones for generating audio data representing commands. For example, the commands may cause the cover to output the sound using the one or more speakers and/or cease outputting the sound using the one or more speakers.

Soundproof cover for voice devices

Methods and apparatus in a wireless network that allow devices, such as client devices and access points (APs), having software defined radios (SDRs) to change operating behavior depending on network RF environment conditions are disclosed. The devices may be instructed to operate according to differently defined behavior profiles that may be chosen based on RF environment conditions. The profiles may be stored in a database. A particular profile may be obtained from the database for one or more devices based on an interference level within an RF environment of the devices. The profiles may be implemented to change device operating behavior so that interference is reduced or minimized in higher levels of interference. The profiles may also be implemented to change device behavior so that interference is reduced in lower levels of interference while also freeing up resources for more efficient use in the network during lower levels of interference.

Adaptive profiles with SDR

This disclosure describes, in part, soundproof covers for voice-controlled devices. For instance, a first portion of a soundproof cover may include a soundproof material that does not allow outside sound to travel to microphone(s) of a voice-controlled device. A second portion of the soundproof cover may include a material and/or openings that allows interior sound output by speaker(s) of the voice-controlled device to travel outside of the soundproof cover. In some instances, such as when the voice-controlled device includes a display, a third portion of the soundproof cover may include material and/or an opening that allows the display to be visible.

Soundproof case for voice devices

Methods and apparatus in a wireless network that allow devices, such as client devices and access points (APs), having software defined radios (SDRs) to change operating behavior depending on network RF environment conditions are disclosed. The devices may be instructed to operate according to differently defined behavior profiles that may be chosen based on RF environment conditions. The profiles may be stored in a database. A particular profile may be obtained from the database for one or more devices based on an interference level within an RF environment of the devices. The profiles may be implemented to change device operating behavior so that interference is reduced or minimized in higher levels of interference. The profiles may also be implemented to change device behavior so that interference is reduced in lower levels of interference while also freeing up resources for more efficient use in network during lower levels of interference.

Multiplexed unequal error protection for wireless networks is disclosed. A device may determine reliability associated with a first subcarrier of a channel including the first subcarrier and at least one second subcarrier. The reliability of the first subcarrier may be determined based on the position of the first subcarrier relative to each at least one second subcarrier. High priority data may be assigned to the first subcarrier for transmission if the first subcarrier is determined to have a higher reliability than the at least one second subcarrier. For example, the channel may be an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) channel and higher reliability may be associated with a first subcarrier that is in a middle position of the plurality of subcarriers within the OFDM channel. In another example, higher reliability may be associated with a first OFDM subcarrier that is adjacent to an unused OFDM channel bandwidth.

Multiplexed unequal error protection for wireless networks

In one example, a Wi-Fi client device may streamline a dynamic frequency selection check using a channel baseline measurement. The Wi-Fi client device may select a sampling size for a dynamic frequency selection check based on a channel baseline measurement for a dynamic frequency selection Wi-Fi channel. The Wi-Fi client device may execute the dynamic frequency selection check using the sampling size on the dynamic frequency selection Wi-Fi channel. The Wi-Fi client device may establish a Wi-Fi Direct connection based on the dynamic frequency selection check.

Client-side dynamic frequency selection check

Application specific internet access for synchronizing over a tethered network connection is disclosed. When a first device enters a tethering state the first device sends a wakeup message to a second device that is in sleep mode. The second device receives the wake-up message and determines at least one application that is to be synchronized over the tethered network connection provided by the first device. The at least one application is then synchronized and the second device returns to sleep mode. The second device to which the wakeup message is sent may comprise a device that was previously paired with the first device. The at least one application to be synchronized may be determined from a database stored on the second device that indicates a subset of applications of a plurality of applications on the second device to be synchronized on entering wakeup mode in response to the wake-up message.

Application specific internet access

Described is a technology by which network connections are unified into a single user interface for user interaction with those networks. Upon receiving information identifying available networks that correspond to different types of media, a user interface component aggregates the available network connections and displays representations of the available network connections on the user interface. The result is a single user interface page on which the available networks are represented as available network connections that may correspond to destinations, for example by displaying a network name and/or a user-friendly name maintained in a network profile. Also displayable is connectivity status, security-related information, signal strength information for wireless network connections, and other information. The user may choose to show all available network connections, or only subset of the available network connections (e.g., only wireless, or only dial-up and VPN).

Connecting to different network types through a common user interface

In embodiments of registration and network access control, an initially unconfigured network interface device can be registered and configured as an interface to a public network for a client device. In another embodiment, a network interface device can receive a network access request from a client device to access a secure network utilizing extensible authentication protocol (EAP), and the request is communicated to an authentication service to authenticate a user of the client device based on user credentials. In another embodiment, a network interface device can receive a network access request from a client device to access a Web site in a public network utilizing a universal access method (UAM), and the request is redirected to the authentication service to authenticate a user of the client device based on user credentials.

Registration and network access control

An access point device is configured to improve usability of tethering, while improving battery life and managing data usage among and by the tethered devices. Both access point devices and client devices can remain in a low power state without a high power radio being powered until a shared network connection is to be used. To establish a connection to a network for the client device, the client device communicates with the access point device over a lower power communication device, such as a low power radio. The access point device activates its higher power radio. The two devices then connect over the high power radio, allowing the client device to then to use the access point device as a router to connect to a computer network.

Efficient automatic sharing of network access among devices

A web-based service portal provides a user interface to configure and/or access device(s) of a home network. The service portal can communicate with device(s) through application program interfaces (APIs). The service portal can provide a standardized user interface for specific feature(s) of a device. The service portal can further provide user authentication, device provisioning, and/or a user interface used to interact with device(s) in a home network. The service portal can established a trusted communication link between the portal and the device. The service portal can include a home control user interface component for providing a graphical representation of the home network and receiving user input and a device provisioning component that can discover and configure the device. The service portal can, optionally, include an authentication component that can authenticate a particular user's right to configure and/or access device(s) of a particular home network.

Home networking web-based service portal

A system and method of hosting a user interface of a network device are provided. A particular method includes receiving a request at a server to display a user interface of the network device, authenticating an end user device to validate an identity of a user, and communicating display information of the user interface of the network device to the end user device for display. The server hosted user interface permits monitoring and interactions with the network device by a user of the end user device.

Hosted network device user interface

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Aaron Wesley Cunningham