Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ajay Preetham Barboza

Shyamal Kaushik Varma

Alessandro Domenico Scarpantoni

Mei Ling Wilson

Adam Joseph Lenart

Samuel David Adams

Jason C Knichel

Jason Christopher Knichel

The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for creating one or more proxy devices in a guest device mirroring the devices hosted by a host device. The proxy devices may provide full device access functionality to applications running in the guest device. The devices and methods may load a proxy driver inside the guest device, which communicates with the host device. When applications running on the guest device interact with the proxy devices, the proxy driver communicates the interaction to the host device, which communicates with the device driver managing the device. The devices and methods allow applications running on the host and applications running on the guest to shares access to the same device.

Providing device abstractions to applications inside a virtual machine

In one aspect, a request is sent to a device for a device descriptor that describes custom interfaces. The custom interfaces may be expressed according to a defined data structure. The device descriptor that describes the custom interfaces is received at a gateway. An interface agnostic application is executed to translate the device descriptor to the custom interfaces for consumption of the data described by the custom interfaces.

Self-describing interfaces for communication with gateways

The disclosed techniques enable a software program to communicate with a peripheral device (e.g., a sensor), via a low-level communication protocol such as the IC protocol, even though the software program does not include lower-level code configured to implement a sequence of operations defined for the low-level communication protocol. The techniques determine that the software program includes a high-level operation that instructs for communications to be conducted with the peripheral device. The high-level operation is associated with a separately stored configuration file that includes the lower-level code configured to implement the sequence of operations enabling the communications to be conducted with the peripheral device via the low-level communication protocol. The techniques then execute the lower-level code included in the configuration file and return information, to the software program, indicating that the communications with the peripheral device have been conducted via the low-level communication protocol.

Declarative transactional communications with a peripheral device via a low-power bus

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Ajay Preetham Barboza