Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Google Inc.

Motorola Mobility LLC

Balaji Thiagarajan

Parichay Saxena

Arvind Kumar Peechara

Rachid M Alameh

Ravi Kumar Jain

Roger William Ady

Kevin J McDunn

Craig J Detter

Maria Mokhnatkina

Sharad Kumar Garg

Derek J Phillips

Theodore Thuong Nguyen

Bhushan Sharad Nene

Lakahmi Thyagarajan

Aleksey M Savateyev

An electronic device includes an audio capture device, one or more physical sensors or context sensors, and one or more processors. A method of operating the electronic device includes receiving audio input, identifying a device command from the audio input, and detecting one or more multi-modal social cues from an environment about the electronic device. Where the one or more multi-modal social cues match one or more predefined criteria, the method executes a control operation in response to the device command.

Methods and systems for controlling an electronic device in response to detected social cues

A system and method of determining a keep-alive interval for a network access point (AP) employs adaptive learning and crowd sourced data building to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of mobile device connectivity. In particular, in addition to allowing group accessed storage of resolved keep-alive intervals for specific APs, the disclosed principles provide a mechanism for resolving the keep-alive interval for any AP upon first encounter, allowing devices to maintain connectivity during a session without consuming bandwidth unnecessarily by sending superfluous keep-alive messages.

Adaptive crowdsourced keep-alive interval determination

A system and method for identifying persons near a mobile device includes a wireless signaling system including an incoming wireless signal receiver, a device motion sensing system including at least a first sensor and a controller configured to determine whether the device is being moved in accordance with a predetermined gesture and to responsively enter a personnel data collection mode. In the personnel data collection mode, the device may transmit a query and receives an identification signal from at least one other device and identifies a user of the device based on the received identification signal. The predetermined gesture is a spinning gesture in an embodiment. In an embodiment, a thermal sensor is used to identify or enumerate personnel. The identification signal may be one of a Bluetooth ID and a WiFi ID.

Wirelessly identifying participant characteristics

A client device captures biometric data from a user and stores the biometric data to identify the user. To simplify access to content from a content source, the user identifies the content source to the client device, which identifies authentication information associated with the user by the content source. For example, the user specifies a username and password associated with the content source to the client device. The authentication information is stored in the client device using the user's biometric data. For example, the client device stores the authentication information so it is not accessible unless the client device receives the user's biometric data. When the user subsequently requests access to the content source, the user provides biometric data to the client device, which retrieves and communicates the authentication information to the content source.

Biometric authentication for regulating access to content sources via a client device

A program recording completion system automatically completes an incomplete program recording of a program. A recording application creates a program recording completion event corresponding to the incomplete program recording which includes program information to automatically complete the incomplete program recording. The recording application can initiate recording a re-broadcast of the program to create a complete program recording, or the recording application can record a segment of a re-broadcast of the program and combine the program segment with the incomplete program recording to create a complete program recording.

Program recording completion

A content distribution system receives data describing media content available from one or more vendors. The content distribution system generates data that describes an offer and associates the media content data with the offer. The content distribution system provides data describing an offer to a client device. The client device receives a request for a media content offer. The media content offer may include one or more instances of media content. Each instance of media content is available from a media vendor. For each media content instance associated with the offer, the client determines a vendor able to provide the media content, and submits a request for the media content to the vendor.

Multiple media vendor support

A short-term content buffer maintains segments of audio and/or video content and the content segments are identified with segment identifiers which enables management and playback of the content segments. In an embodiment, independent video content segments corresponding to a particular broadcast channel can be identified by associated content segment identifiers and the video content segments can be recorded together to generate a single recording of the content.

Manage content in a short-term content buffer with content identifiers

Enhanced compiled representation of transformation formats to enable rapid application development and deployment is described. Techniques for data transformation include receiving a transformation specification, generating an object model using a schema, and transforming the transformation specification into an application-specific document using the object model. A system for data transformation is also described, including a memory configured to receive a transformation specification, and a processor configured to generate an object model using a schema and transform the transformation specification into an application-specific document using the object model. Another system for data transformation includes a compiler configured to receive a transformation specification and generate a hierarchical transformation object model using a schema, and a rendering engine configured to generate an object model from the hierarchical transformation object model, generating an application-specific object model.

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Balaji Thiagarajan