Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Anders Edgar Klemets

Eduardo P Oliveira

David Del Val

Troy Batterberry

James Morris Alkove

Sanjay Bhatt

Cristian M Matesan

Rouella J Mendonca

Philip Andrew Chou

Rebecca Claire Weiss

Hemanth Srinivas Ravi

Daniel F Plastina

Alexandre Vicktorovich Grigorovitch

Aamer Hydrie

Navin Chaddha

John L Miller

Christos Gkantsidis

James Walter

Anthony W Cannon

Vincent Bellet

Yejin Choi

William F Schiefelbein

James C Stewart

Srinivas Prasad Vellanki

Thomas B Brown

Kasy Srinivas

Phuoc Q Phan

Ling Tony Chen

Cheng Huang

Scott Colville

Anand Paka

Tong L Wynn

Dawson F Dean

Kevin P Larkin

Shafiq Rahman

Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez

Srinivas Aiyar

Edward Yan-bing Wang

Matthew Bruce Andrews

Anthony William Cannon

Gabriel Frost

Li-wei He

Patrick Nelson

Gurpratap Virdi

Jonathan Marshall Cain

Jordi Ribas-Corbera

Adil Ahmed Sherwani

Edwin Arturo Heredia

Richard William Saunders

Steven Wilssens

Geqiang Zhang

Bruno Kraychete Da Costa

Armando Garcia-Mendoza

Ivan Mladenov

Chinweizu Uzodinma Owunwanne

James T Walter, Jr

Oleksandr Monastyrskyy

David De Val

Jose Contreras

Matthieu Maitre

Zane Salim

Catalin C Cazangiu

Ramees Khan Rahumathulla

Dan Plastina

Edwin A Heredia

Pablo Rodriguez Microsoft Research Ltd Rodriguez

Christos Microsoft Research Ltd Gkantsidis

John Microsoft Research Ltd Miller

Rebecca Weiss

Thomas D c/o Microsoft Corporation Brown

Technology related to activating a first communication channel is disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, operations can be performed for initiating communications with a remote computing device over a first communication channel. The operations can comprise determining an address associated with a second communication channel of the remote computing device, transmitting a network packet addressed to the remote computing device over the second communication channel for causing the remote computing device to begin a sequence to activate the first communication channel, and initiating communication over the first communication channel with the remote computing device at a different address associated with the first communication channel.

Activating a peer-to-peer communication channel

The present disclosure generally relates to game consoles including game controllers and connected to one or more computing device. Specifically, a game console may receive, via a game controller, a first input triggering an activation of a multi-mode controller switching application at the game console. Further, while a multi-mode controller switching application is active and the game controller is operating in the first controller mode, the game console may receive, via the controller, a second input representing a selection of the second controller mode different from the first controller mode, switch from the first controller mode to the second controller mode in response to receiving the second input, and controlling the computing device in communication with the game console in accordance with the second controller mode.

Using a game controller as a mouse or gamepad

In a first device including a processor and a memory in communication with the processor, the memory includes executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the first device to perform functions of receiving, from a second device via a signal connection, a request to project visual content from the second device, the first device being in a locked state to restrict access to the first device that requires valid authentication to transition from the locked state to an unlocked state; determining that the second device has a permission to project the visual content to the first device; receiving, from the second device via the signal connection, data for projecting the visual content to the first device; and based on the received data, displaying, on a display, the visual content.

Projection via a device

Techniques for projection via a device are described. According to various implementations, techniques described herein enable a locked host device to output data projected from another device while the host device remains in a locked state. In at least some implementations, device context for a host device (locked or unlocked) can be considered in determining whether to broadcast availability to receive projected content.

Technologies for selecting a media representation out of a plurality of representations of the same media offered by a media provider wherein the selected representation is a preferred representation and the selecting is based on metadata of the media representations evaluated against scoring criteria.

Automatic selection of media representations

Technology related to activating a peer-to-peer communication channel is disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method can be used to initiate peer-to-peer communications between a transmitting device and a receiving device over an inactive first communication channel. The method can include determining an address associated with a second communication channel of the receiving device. A packet addressed to the receiving device can be transmitted over the second communication channel to cause the receiving device to begin a sequence to activate the first communication channel. Communication can be initiated over the first communication channel from the transmitting device to the receiving device at a different address associated with the first communication channel.

An arrangement is provided in which a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) device exposes a service for mapping a UPnP discovered content item to a server message block (SMB) location. The service is arranged to expose an SMB share path to a user at a remote client using a UPnP protocol. The user is then enabled with access to the share via SMB to gain file access, write changes or exercise file level control of the discovered content item. Authentication is optionally utilized to verify that the user is authorized to receive the SMB share location from the service or to verify that the user is authorized to access the SMB share.

Mapping universal plug and play discovered items to an SMB location

Technologies for measuring a data throughput rate of a link typically used for transferring media catalogs and media between a media provider and an UPnP Control Point.

Network bandwidth measurement

Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for facilitating the streaming of digital media content to a remote device. In one exemplary embodiment, a translation layer translates markup language code and/or scripting language code (e.g., code that complies with the HTML5/W3C standard) to comply with a streaming protocol (e.g., a streaming protocol specified by the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)) to facilitate streaming of digital content (e.g., digital video, digital audio, or digital images) to remote devices (e.g., a digital television, digital audio player, game console, etc.). In some embodiments, a translation layer translates streaming protocol events at a remote device into other events (e.g., events specified in the HTML5 standard) at a local computing device. Local/remote playback switching logic can also facilitate switching between local playback and remote playback.

Streaming digital content with flexible remote playback

An arrangement is provided in which a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) device exposes a service for mapping a UPnP discovered content item to a server message block (SMB) location. The service is arranged to expose an SMB share path to a user at a remote client using a UPnP protocol, The user is then enabled with access to the share via SMB to gain file access, write changes or exercise file level control of the discovered content item. Authentication is optionally utilized to verify that the user is authorized to receive the SMB share location from the service or to verify that the user is authorized to access the SMB share.

A remote media server provides a resource identifier to a digital media controller. A digital media controller passes this resource identifier to a digital media renderer. The digital media renderer launches an application that processes the resource identifier to access the remote media server and play back the media. Playback is responsive to controls from the digital media controller. The digital media renderer can play back media identified by the digital media controller, but that is encoded and protected in a manner specific to the digital media renderer. The digital media controller can shut down or become dormant to save battery power without affecting playback by the digital media renderer. By providing the information about available applications from the digital media renderer to the digital media controller, the digital media controller can reliably send resource identifiers for which applications are available the digital media renderer.

Directing a playback device to play a media item selected by a controller from a media server

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Anders Edgar Klemets