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Christopher Wellington Brumme

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Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer

Alexander G Gounares

Raja Krishnaswamy

James S Miller

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Gary William Flake

Arnold Neil Blinn

Gopala Krishna R Kakivaya

Matthew Bret MacLaurin

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Michael J Connolly

Raymond Edward Ozzie

William Henry Gates, Iii

Patrick Henri Dussud

Vance Palmer Morrison

Amit Mital

Lance Olson

Henry L Sanders

Anders Hejlsberg

Gregory Darrell Fee

Erik B Christensen

Michael M Magruder

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Chandramohan Amyangot Thekkath

David S Ebbo

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Galen Clyde Hunt

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Martin Taillefer

Ahmed Hassan Mohamed

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William J Bolosky

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Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

Nikhil Kothari

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Craig Henry Wittenberg

Michael Joseph Toutonghi

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Dinesh Chandrakant Kulkarni

Scott David Guthrie

Raymond Edward Endres

Brian M Grunkemeyer

Thomas F Bergstraesser

Jonathan C Hawkins

Daniel S Glasser

Mahesh Prakriya

James H Hogg

Melora Zaner-Godsey

Ira L Snyder, Jr

Travis Muhlestein

Krzysztof J Cwalina

Jinsong Yu

Seth Mitchell Demsey

Shawn Patrick Burke

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Loren Kohnfelder

Yung-Shin Lin

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Fabio A Yeon

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Beysim Sezgin

Rico Mariani

Luca Bolognese

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James M Lyon

Efstathios Papaefstathiou

Christopher L Anderson

Peter Alan Carlin

Brian D Harry

F Soner Terek

Alan C Shi

Sebastian Lange

Christopher David Brown

Richard Douglas Hill

Erik Meijer

Keith W Ballinger

Brian Keith Pepin

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Mark T Anders

Jun Fang

Shaun David Cox

Eric Dean Tribble

Susan M Warren

Gopal Krishna R Kakivaya

Jason Todd Hunter

Wei Zhu

Manu Vasandani

Systems and methods that provide for a virtual reality entertainment system that supplies immersive entertainment and creates a sensation for a user similar to having guests in a remote location to be physically present as virtual guests. Such virtual reality entertainment system can supply a graphic and/or audio; wherein interconnected computers, video and audio processing devices, supply a live interaction between a user and a guest(s). Although guests are only present virtually (e.g., electronically present with other objects/user within the environment) such virtual invitation enables a user and guests to concurrently experience the entertainment together (e.g., a live sporting event, spectator game). In a related aspect, the subject innovation can implement holographic avatars, and a plurality of communication interfaces, to imitate (and/or transform) a relationship between the user and the virtual guests/surrounding environment.

Transformations for virtual guest representation

Enforcing limitations on hardware drivers. The method includes from a system kernel, assigning I/O resources to the system's root bus. From the root bus, the method further includes assigning a subset of the I/O resources to a device bus. Assigning a subset of the I/O resources to a device bus includes limiting the device bus to only be able to assign I/O resources that are assigned to it by the root bus. From the device bus, the method includes assigning I/O resources to a device through a device interface.

Capability based device driver framework

Caching of an immutable buffer that has its data and address prevented from changing during the lifetime of the immutable buffer. A first computing entity maintains a cache of the immutable buffer and has a strong reference to the immutable buffer. So long as any entity has a strong reference to the immutable buffer, the immutable buffer is guaranteed to continue to exist for the duration of the strong reference. A second computing entity communicates with the first computing entity to obtain a strong reference to the immutable buffer and thereafter read data from the immutable buffer. Upon reading the data from the cache, the second computing entity demotes the strong reference to a weak reference to the immutable buffer. A weak reference to the immutable buffer does not guarantee that the immutable buffer will continue to exist for the duration of the weak reference.

Zero-copy caching

Communicating between an application and a hardware device. A method includes an application writing data to host physical memory using an application view of the memory. The method further includes mapping the data in the physical memory to a hardware driver view, usable by a hardware driver, without needing to copy the data to a different physical storage location. The method further includes mapping the data to a hardware accessible view accessible by a hardware device without needing to copy the data to a different physical storage location.

DMA channels

The environment and use of an immutable buffer. A computing entity acquires data or generates data and populates the data into the buffer, after which the buffer is classified as immutable. The classification protects the data populated within the immutable buffer from changing during the lifetime of the immutable buffer, and also protects the immutable buffer from having its physical address changed during the lifetime of the immutable buffer. As different computing entities consume data from the immutable buffer, they do so through views provided by a view providing entity. The immutable buffer architecture may also be used for streaming data in which each component of the streaming data uses an immutable buffer. Accordingly, different computing entities may view the immutable data differently without having to actually copy the data.

Immutable sharable zero-copy data and streaming

Remote provisioning of an IT network and/or associated services is provided. Hardware, software, service and/or expertise can be moved from on-premise to a remote location (e.g., central, distributed . . . ). Accordingly, at least a large degree computation can be moved to the center to exploit economies of scale, among other things. In such an architecture, computational resources (e.g., data storage, computation power, cache . . . ) can be pooled, and entities can subscribe to a particular level of resources related to a private entity IT network.

Remote provisioning of information technology

The coordination and execution of chores in a multiprocessing environment. The coordination of chores is accomplished utilizing a compiler generated correlation that relates blocks of code that execute chores and blocks of code in which the chore can be realized. By tracking the execution of the program and using the compiler-generated correlation, chores can be identified for the currently executing code.

Coordinating chores in a multiprocessing environment using a compiler generated exception table

The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed at sharing objects between applications executing in a virtual runtime environment. The techniques include compiling a cpu-independent file to create executable instructions that are associated with an application that is executable in a virtual runtime environment. A constructor associated with a shareable class defined within the cpu-independent file is executed to create an instance of a shareable object. The shareable object is then persisted in a manner such that other applications executing in the virtual runtime environment may access the shareable object. The technique may be performed during pre-JIT compilation or just-in-time compilation of the cpu-independent file. The execution of the constructor is performed at a restricted security level that prevents access to changeable information when generating static data for the static members of the shareable object.

System and method for sharing objects between applications in a virtual runtime environment

A spectrum of tier-splitting mechanisms facilitates distributed programming. A rich application model and associated tools enable programmers to write rich distributed applications that can run anywhere. A program can be developed simply as a single tier or tier agnostic application. Subsequently or concurrently, the program can be sliced into multiple tiers in different ways to reflect, for instance, capabilities and/or constraints of a server, client and/or network.

Tier splitting support for distributed execution environments

Virtual entertainment

A system and method for mitigating problems associated with automatic execution of initialization code is provided. The system includes an initialization method activator that can call a class initialization method at a pre-determined execution point. The system also includes a deadlock analyzer that can determine whether calling the initialization method will create a deadlock, and, if a deadlock is detected that can resolve such a deadlock. The system also includes a semantic analyzing component that can analyze a semantic type associated with the initialization method and a domain uniqueness analyzer that can analyze the uniqueness of the domain with which the class will interact, to facilitate determining where to place code that will check whether a class is initialized, and if the class is not initialized that will invoke the class initializing method.

Class initialization method semantics

Described herein is an implementation for exposing an 'execution context' to a logical execution flow of procedures as it executes. An 'execution context' is a set of data and/or sub-procedures that might be useful at some point during a logical execution flow (to manage and control the execution flow and provide additional services to the execution flow) of computer-executable instructions though the often complex, intertwined, and interconnected conglomeration of procedures of software product(s).

Execution context infrastructure

Personal data mining mechanisms and methods are employed to identify relevant information that otherwise would likely remain undiscovered. Users supply personal data that can be analyzed in conjunction with data associated with a plurality of other users to provide useful information that can improve business operations and/or quality of life. Personal data can be mined alone or in conjunction with third party data to identify correlations amongst the data and associated users. Applications or services can interact with such data and present it to users in a myriad of manners, for instance as notifications of opportunities.

Personal data mining

A computing paradigm where information can be aggregated from multiple services/programs within a 'cloud-based' environment is provided. Thus, the system can provide a uniform interface that can combine computational tasks across the multiple services/programs. Thus, the innovation takes advantage of the computing device being a 'thin client' which affords greater user comfort to a user without sacrificing data processing capabilities. Accordingly, the mechanisms are disclosed that standardize and/or normalize data across the resources within the cloud.

Resource standardization in an off-premise environment

A host intercepts calls between two executables and determines whether the calls are permissible according to the host's security model which can be identify based, such as user identity based&#x2014;for instance, mapping access rights within a specific data base user context to database object access. Such an identity security model differs from a common language runtime security model where managed code uses Code Access Security to prevent managed assemblies from performing certain operations. Managed assemblies registered with the host are host objects from the host's perspective for which access rights can be defined via security rules, such as are defined for individual user identities. A host can decide access between managed executables based on the host's identity based access rules by trapping any cross assembly calls and deciding whether such calls should proceed or be blocked from taking place based on the corresponding identity security settings.

Cross assembly call interception

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