Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Antonio Winslow Fernando

William David Sproule

Murali Narayanan

Dennis J Thompson

Tao Cao

David Charles Huang

Yong Zhong Wang

Mehul Y Shah

Joseph Prasanna Fernando

William D Sproule

A device virtualization service (DVS) is provided that uses a generalized thick client resident on a mobile device to provide user interface generation support to a myriad of services providing mobile device content. The DVS abstracts device specifics from services to provide device independent user experiences to be described by the service and then rendered on the device.

Virtualization of mobile device user experience

Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to content sharing for mobile devices. In aspects, images that are created using mobile devices may be automatically uploaded to one or more targets. In addition, images created on the one or more targets may be automatically downloaded to the mobile device based on one or more criteria. A service facilitates transfer of images in both directions and includes a pluggable architecture in which forwarders for new targets may be added.

Content sharing for mobile devices

Dynamically configuring an application program at run-time via one or more extension objects. The invention software implements a framework with one or more extension objects providing functionality to an application program and an application manager for integrating the functionality with the application program during execution of the application program. The framework of the invention also formulates and routes application messages between extensible objects of one application program and extensible objects of other application programs implementing a similar, dynamically extensible application program framework. On receipt of messages or notifications, the framework of the receiving application program facilitates the discovery of the intended recipient extension object and routes the message accordingly.

Dynamically extensible application program framework including message and notification routing

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Antonio Winslow Fernando