Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Brian Ewanchuk

Sam J George

Roland Mesde

Alex Bessonov

George Sherif Kamal Hanna

Koji Kato

Shawn A Van Ness

Stefan Wick

Vladimir V Smirnov

Lawrence Wayne Olson

Paolo Gruenberg Hilario

James Stuart Johnson

Steven P Dodge

Alexander J Kolmykov-Zotov

Rudolph Balaz

Xiao Tu

Manoj Kumar Biswas

Akhilesh Kaza

Michael John Hillberg

Todd A Torset

Shiraz M Somji

Alexander Gurzhi

Timothy H Kannapel

Todd M Landstad

Gilles Khouzam

Michael R Harsh

Stephen Alan Fisher

Chang Hwa Rob Yang

Balsa Laban

Nitin Giri

Anthony L Willie

John Thomas Kimbell

Justin Hartin

Philip J Nachreiner

Jeremy B Gup

Bernardo De Carvalho E Silva

Vijai Rajagopal

Christopher R H Sires

Wayne Zeng

Kevin Welton

Richmond Lough

Ripin Natani

Chandramouli Kompella

Hongan Wang

Eliezer Payzer

Michael Russell

Brent Campbell

Mark Gerald Favero

Paul Heidelman

Hongmei Dilip Li

Luis Delgado De Mendoza Garcia

Yuriy Tarasov

Austin M Lamb

Systems and methods of determining and providing optimized deployment plans for deploying software to vehicles are disclosed. In some embodiments, a vehicle software deployment system evaluates one or more cost functions to determine relative costs of different deployment configuration options for deploying software to a vehicle, such as resource costs (e.g., bandwidth, compute, memory, etc.), isolation costs (e.g., limited access to input information, limited connectivity to other ECUs, etc.), performance costs, etc. Based on the evaluation of the one or more cost functions, the vehicle software deployment system determines an optimized deployment plan. Also, the vehicle software deployment system receives telemetry data from the vehicle and automatically determines updated optimized deployment plans in response to changes in configuration of the vehicle indicated in the telemetry data.

Vehicle application deployment system with optimized placement

Systems and methods for providing vehicle software deployment plans that include one or more fallback deployment plans are disclosed. In some embodiments, a vehicle software deployment system determines a deployment plan for deploying one or more software applications one or more electronic control units (ECUs) of a vehicle. Additionally, for one or more failure scenarios, the vehicle software deployment system determines one or more respective fallback deployment plans, such as a deployment plan that assumes one of the ECUs of the vehicle has failed. A deployment plan bundle is provided to the vehicle, comprising a primary deployment plan as well as the one or more fallback deployment plans. In the event that one of the failure scenarios takes place with respect to the vehicle, a deployment agent of the vehicle automatically deploys one of the fallback deployment plans that was provided with the deployment bundle.

Vehicle application deployment system with pre-determined fallback deployments

A vehicle signal relay system enables a relay agent in a first zone of a vehicle to send sensor signals having a first link-layer communication protocol to a software application deployed on a compute unit in another zone of the vehicle that is connected using another link-layer communication protocol. The vehicle signal relay system allows the software application to identify target relay agents with access to needed sensor signals. The vehicle signal relay system may further enable one way or mutual attestation. The vehicle signal relay system may also allow filters to be applied to the subscribed vehicle sensor signals, and may allow the software application to determine a communication protocol to be used between the software application and the relay agent.

Vehicle signal relay service

Devices and methods are provided for dynamically switching states of remote control devices. A remote control device may receive voice data from a user, send the voice data to another device which may pass the voice signals to a server. The server may determine instructions associated with responding to the voice signals and send the instructions to the other device, which may convert the instructions to remote control commands. The other device may send the commands along with state information to the remote control device, allowing the remote control device to emit commands determined by the other device and to map other command signals to possible inputs which the remote control device may receive.

Voice-based state switching and LED selection for remote control devices

Embodiments for controlling one or more external audio-visual devices are provided. In one example, a method comprises receiving a device command and determining an intent of the device command. The intent includes an action and an external device to perform the action. The method further comprises selecting a selected protocol for communicating the device command to the external device, where the selected protocol is selected from a plurality of supported protocols, and communicating the device command to the external device according to the selected protocol.

Controlling devices in entertainment environment

Control exposure techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a determination is made by a computing device as to which of a plurality of controls correspond to one or more inputs detected using one or more magnetometers, cameras, or microphones. A result of the determination is exposed by the computing device to one or more applications that are executed by the computing device.

Control exposure

A media interaction system is described herein that allows hosted applications to consume and/or produce rich media content independent of the format of the media content, while still maintaining the security of the host. The media interaction system accepts raw, uncompressed media data from a hosted application, and allows the hosted application to provide its own codec through a sandboxed API that restricts the actions the codec can perform to a set of trusted actions. Then, the application provides the uncompressed data to the system for playback. Thus, the media interaction system provides rich media content in any format that the application developer supports, and maintains the security of the user's computer system.

Hosted application platform with extensible media format

A process for rendering highlighter ink strokes and non-highlighter ink strokes in a non-rastering environment is described. Strokes may be grouped under a node having a predefined opacity. The strokes inherit the opacity from the node. Additionally, visuals containing highlighter strokes of the same color are grouped into collections of visuals (one collection per each highlighter color), and change the opacity of the collection (parent) visual to semi-transparent (or any other transparency value defined for the highlighter effect).

Rendering highlighting strokes

Network connectivity management can manage (e.g., harmonize) network connectivity services and network connectivity modules. By way of example only, network connectivity management is applicable to connections to a network through a network connectivity service via a network connectivity module. In a described implementation, network connectivity configuration information is scanned to locate data that corresponds to a preferred network connectivity service for a given connection scenario. The network connectivity module used in the given connection scenario is extracted. It is detected if the extracted network connectivity module is a preferred network connectivity module that is associated with the preferred network connectivity service. If not, the connection scenario can be redirected away from the non-preferred network connectivity module and toward the preferred network connectivity module. A user may optionally be given an opportunity to elect to connect via the preferred network connectivity module.

Network connectivity management

A system and method for performing ink related operations in a tree-based presentation system is described. Ink-related programmatical interfaces may relate to interactions with a stroke object, a stroke collection object, and ink input elements.

Programmatical access to handwritten electronic ink in a tree-based rendering environment

A connection manager receives connection status indicators from a remote access service and invokes status threshold based responses. A received status indicator is received in response to a connection request. In another example, the status indicator is pushed to the connection manager. Status indicators are recorded in a status data structure. Status threshold based responses are identified in a status threshold response data structure. When a status indication count corresponds with a threshold value in a status threshold response data structure, a corresponding status threshold based response is invoked. A status data structure is sent to a remote server, and a new status data structure is received. In another example, a new status threshold response data structure is received. In another example, one or more new or updated status responses are received.

Performing threshold based connection status responses

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