Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Carlos Picoto

Robert Zhu

Ying Chin

Satyendra Bahadur

Daryl A Welsh

Lei Zhang

Bin Wang

Pengxiang Zhao

Dejun Zhang

Qian Zhou

Naiyi Jiang

Roger W Porter

Ying N Chin

Robert Yu Zhu

The disclosed technology adjusts hardware settings to map preferences consistently of a user experience across multiple hardware devices, despite there being different hardware capabilities and performance parameters among the different devices. A hardware settings translation engine receives a reference hardware setting of a reference computing device, a set of reference hardware performance parameter values, and a set of target hardware performance parameter values. The hardware settings translation engine then maps the set of target hardware performance parameter values to the set of reference hardware performance parameter values to yield a hardware adjustment map. The hardware settings translation engine determines the target hardware setting based on the reference hardware adjustment map and the reference hardware setting. The hardware settings translation engine sets the target hardware to the target hardware setting.

Computing device resource management

Techniques for controlling audio volume output by a paired device are described. A first notification indicative of a change to a first volume by a first audio output device generated. The first notification comprises a first identifier of the first audio output device. A first record indicative of a volume of audio is stored. The first record is indexed by the first identifier. A second notification indicative of an audio stream being redirected from the first audio output device to a second audio output device is generated. The second notification comprises a second identifier of the second audio output device. A second record indicative of a second volume of audio output by the second device is retrieved. The second record is retrieved based at least in part on the second identifier. The second audio output device outputs audio at the second volume, based at least in part on the second record.

Bluetooth identity binding for volume control

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