Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Facebook, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Brian Kenneth Dewey

Ravisankar V Pudipeddi

Neal Robert Christiansen

Ravinder S Thind

Mark Joseph Zbikowski

Matthew James Ruhlen

David Golds

Sam Franklin Williams, Iii

Eileen C Brown

David Matthew Kruse

Dan Teodosiu

Mary-Lynne Williams

Jonathan M Cargille

Andrew M Herron

Shishir P Pardikar

Jeremy Samuel Friedland

Dana D Groff

Sanjay Anand

Christopher Serge Benjamin Chedeau

Matteo Visentin

Ian Andrew Magwire

Joseph Dailey

Shruthi Muraleedharan

Youngho Yoo

Christopher Serge Chedeau

Ravisankar Pudipeddi

Neal Christiansen

David P Golds

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide a content feed comprising content items associated with a plurality of entities to be presented through a display screen of a computing device. A selection of an option to temporarily prevent content items satisfying at least one criterion from appearing in the content feed for a duration of time can be determined. At least one content item that satisfies the at least one criterion can be removed from the content feed.

Systems and methods for content management

Particular embodiments of a computing device determine unoccupied positions in a display grid, wherein the grid corresponds to specifications for a displayable region of a screen associated with a computing device. A plurality of image elements are identified as candidates for placement within the grid. Then, while at least one unoccupied position and at least one candidate image element remain, one of the candidate image elements is matched to a set of the unoccupied positions, and the positions in the matched set are designated as occupied by the matched image element. Matching may be based on a pattern of positions, which is determined using the size and the shape of the image element and a size of a position in the grid. Layout information is then provided to render the image elements in accordance with placement of each matched image element at the designated positions in the grid.

Flexible image layout

According to some embodiments, a callback interface for web accessible services is provided. A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or similar address is issued by a host associated service to the user. User's browser provides the URL to an activity service, which on the user's behalf contacts the host service indicated by the URL and supporting the callback interface. The activity service then facilitates the user's requests on documents maintained by the host service through stateless calls to the host service providing web accessible services such as document manipulation, image processing, and similar ones.

Interfacing distinct services for providing web based document manipulation access

Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to file system filters and transactions. In aspects, a filter may enlist to receive notification of events associated with a transaction. Afterwards, the filter may receive notification of a transaction event for which it has enlisted. In response to receiving notification of the transaction the filter may perform an action as appropriate. Aspects of the subject matter described herein may be applied to stacked and managed filters.

File system filters and transactions

Systems and methods are described that facilitate management of file system filters, comprising a filter manager that maps altitudes of minifilters to legacy filter order groups. An aspect of the present invention provides for minifilters that can dynamically load and unload, thus facilitating increased flexibility in filter system management.

Legacy filter support in a new managed file system filter model

A model in which filter drivers are managed to receive callbacks for I/O requests in which the filter drivers have registered an interest. Per-volume instances of filter drivers register with a filter manager for pre-callbacks (for I/O to the file system) and post-callbacks (for I/O from the file system), and identify which I/O requests (e.g., create, read, write) they are registering to receive callbacks. The filter manager orders the instances for callbacks. When an I/O request is received, the filter manager converts the I/O request to callback data and calls the interested filters in the callback order, whereby the filter instances can process the I/O data. As the request returns from the file system, filters desiring post callbacks are called in the reverse order. Efficient context management for the filters and other functions, such as non-reentrant file I/O, are also provided by the model.

Managed file system filter model and architecture

An improved system and method for transparent storage reorganization is provided. A reorganization server may be used to consolidate storage from many servers to fewer servers or to distribute storage from a few servers to many servers. To do so, a legacy server name may be aliased to the network address of a reorganization server. The contents and permissions of each legacy share may then be copied to a unique share name on another server. A root may next be created on the reorganization server using the legacy server name, and a link that points to the legacy share copied on the other server may be created on that root. Any client may then request access to the relocated legacy share using the legacy share name.

System and method for transparent storage reorganization

A system and method that automatically and transparently enable access to prior file or folder versions for a selected file or folder. When a file or folder is selected for version location, such as via a user interface, prior versions are automatically located and time data (e.g., determined from timestamps) identifying each of the prior versions is displayed. The user can then select a prior version for restoration and thereby recover from changed file data. The present invention can be implemented using remote file servers, or with local file system volumes. Prior to displaying the versions for selection, attributes of the prior versions may be requested, whereby only versions that actually exist can be displayed, and/or only versions with possibly different data are displayed, reducing unnecessary selection for restoration.

System and method for providing access to consistent point-in-time file versions

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Brian Kenneth Dewey