Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ben Constable

Thomas W Olsen

Mark A Lawrence

Robert I Brown

Miles Cohen

Jason Hartman

Kanwal VedBrat

Andrew M Precious

Alexander Stevenson

Chris Raubacher

Bilgem Cakir

Brett Bloomquist

Chris Kam Ming Chui

Samrach Tun

Thomas Mulcahy

Orry Wijanarko Soegiono

Jeffrey Jon Weir

Colin Ray Anthony

David Edward Stewart

Giampiero M Sierra

Gerhard A Schneider

David Citron

David Zearing

Martin E Van Tilburg

Anthony Hodsdon

Methods and computer-readable media for displaying two-dimensional objects on a display device are disclosed. Rendering requests are received from an application to render two-dimensionally modeled graphics to a display device. Primitive geometries of drawing calls of the rendering requests are tessellated into sequences of triangles. The vertices of the triangles are mapped to a vertex buffer along with an index to identify associated constant data. Batching operations store and communicate calls and mapped data to a graphics processing unit by way of a three-dimensional rendering application program interface. Constant data associated with the mapped data are indexed and appended together in a constant buffer, thereby allowing drawing calls to be coalesced. A staging buffer and a staging texture are provided for batching text anti-aliasing operations. Shader fragments are precompiled and organized by way of a predetermined lookup table.

Leveraging graphics processors to optimize rendering 2-D objects

Methods and systems are provided for managing, compiling, and displaying unpredictable digital content received from a plurality of sources, such as news information transmitted in RSS feeds. A layout may be selected from multiple display templates, each having slots for the segments of media that are received. Selection of the templates may be based on the properties of the segments. Further systems and methods are directed to displaying at least a portion of non-textual digital content, such as video and pictures, in a nested view designated for the non-textual graphical content. In one example, the portion of non-textual digital content presented in the nested view is determined by the properties of the non-textual digital content. In other instances, the quantity of the non-textual data may determine what portion is displayed in the nested view.

Automatic layout of unpredictable content from multiple sources

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