Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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David A Nichols

Eric Finley

Hansen A Yuan

Chih-I Lin

Samuel James McKelvie

John D Mehr

Pavel Curtis

Elissa E S Murphy

Mathew James Dickson

Oludare Victor Obasanjo

Navjot Virk

Bhupinder Singh Sethi

Brian Meek

Guo-Wei Shieh

Robert Thomas Schumaker

Eshwar Somashekar

Puja Gomber

Catherine Claire Marshall

Nikolay Smolyanskiy

Herb Cohen

Michael Castro

Alexander E Mallet

David R Quick

Tevfik Sinan Ingec

Mohamed M Battisha

Michael Patrick Mroch

Gur Kimchi

Kristin E Lauter

Vadim Eydelman

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Dhigha D Sekaran

Bimal Kumar Mehta

Travis Muhlestein

John E Brezak

Srikanth Shoroff

Daron Spektor

Yiu-Ming Leung

Shaun David Cox

Emmanuel Jose Miranda-Steiner

Hans Christian Andersen

Albert Peter Hwang

Oded Yehuda Shekel

Patrick Jakubowski

Ronakkumar N Desai

Gyorgy K Schadt

Per-Ola Anders Orvendal

Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy

Keith D Melmon

Adil Faisal

Orit Levin

Supin Ko

Girish Nagaraja

Vishal Mishra

Bradley Dodson

Chris G Parker

Sergei B Meleshchuk

Joel Scaria

Ben D Garrison

Chung Webster

Paul Ming

Mary Angelo

Brad Dodson

Wendy L Lehman

R Scott Graham

Scott R Graham

Shaun D Cox

Vijay Kishen Parthasarathy

Lin Chih-I

Emmanuel Miranda-Steiner

Implementations are described of a computing device that migrates data and software applications from a first computing device to a second computing device, in order to preserve data and other application-related customizations.

Logical migration of applications and data

When files or other objects are to be shared, a storage system creates a bundle object that identifies the objects to be shared, and the permissions associated with objects in that bundle object. Each object is marked as being associated with a bundle object. When the object is accessed, the storage system determines if the object is associated with a bundle object. The bundle object in turn is accessed to determine the permissions to be associated with that object for the entity accessing the object. Files and other objects can be shared without copying or moving them. Any collection of files or other objects, however selected or identified, can be shared through this mechanism. Using this mechanism, a user can select several files, and then share those files in one operation without copying or moving those files or creating a new folder for those files.

Bundling file permissions for sharing files

Both search criteria and a friends list associated with a user are obtained. One or more data items that satisfy the search criteria are identified as search results. An order of the search results is adjusted based at least in part on multiple additional friends lists, each of which is associated with a data item of the one or more data items. Each of the multiple additional friends lists can also be updated to reflect changes in the friends lists made by users associated with the friends lists.

Social distance based search result order adjustment

Techniques for data synchronization policies are described. In one or more implementations, techniques may be employed to set data synchronization ('sync') policies for devices in a data sync environment. The sync policies specify parameters for sync operations in the sync environment, such as how frequently data sync operations are performed, what types of data are synced to particular devices, how frequently particular types of data are synced, and so on. In implementations, the sync policies consider the number of devices that are participating in a sync environment and attributes of the devices in specifying parameters for sync operations. Data can be synchronized among devices in the sync environment based on the sync policies.

Data synchronization policies

People often trust ratings provided by those with whom they have an existing relationship more than they would trust ratings provided by strangers. A system that provides ratings can combine the ratings with information about a person's social network, in order to provide information that a person seeking the rating may find more reliable. The information provided to a person may, in some manner, differentiate between ratings that were provided by members of the person's social network and ratings that were provided by those outside of the persons' social network.

Rating based on relationship

A backup system that utilizes contextual and semantic concepts is described. The backup system provides for the ability to create a version changes log for listing and tracking all the changes in the different versions of the file. The version changes log creates a contextual description around the changes, deletions and additions. The semantic concept log is created from the version changes log to create a log of all of the semantic concepts associated with each change. A visualization builder then creates visualizations that can be used by the user to search for changes, deletions and additions whether in a text file or an image file.

Contextual and semantic differential backup

The present invention includes an apparatus for securing a spinal rod with an anchoring device, the apparatus including a tubular body defining a longitudinal axis from a proximal end to a distal end; a connecting element positioned within the tubular body and along the longitudinal axis, the connecting element engaged by a first internal shaft and a second internal shaft, the tubular body, first internal shaft and second internal shaft coaxial with one another; the first internal shaft rotatably engages the connecting element such that rotation of the first internal shaft results in axial translation of the connecting element; and the second internal shaft engages the connecting element such that rotation of the second internal shaft results in rotation of the connecting element.

Apparatus for securing a spinal rod system

Architecture for a scalable, pluggable multi-party, and distributed multimedia conferencing. A centralized policy and control conferencing component allows the seamless plug-in of different distributed media components (e.g., data, audio/video, messaging) to accommodate client participation in a conference session. The centralized conference control component includes the following: a conference notification service for accepting subscriptions to the conference state and notifying subscribers about changes to that state; a conference policy and roster control service for storing and manipulating conference policy and rosters; a security service for user authorization/authentication based on user identity information; a scheduling service for conference scheduling; an allocation service for allocating the most available media component(s) for a conference session; and, an MCU management service for conference policy and roster management of the distributed media components.

Distributable, scalable, pluggable conferencing architecture

A device is disclosed for securing a spinal rod to the spine which includes a head portion configured to receive a spinal rod, a locking cap configured to engage the head portion and the spinal rod upon rotation of the locking cap relative to the head portion to secure the position of the head portion relative to the spinal rod, and a fastener portion depending from the head portion and configured to engage the spine. The locking cap has discontinuous opposed engagement flanges that are received within opposed engagement slots of the head portion when the locking cap is rotated into a locked position.

Device for securing spinal rods

The present invention includes a method of securing a spinal rod to an anchoring device, including releasably securing a locking cap to a distal end of an insertion instrument, the instrument having an outer tubular body, a rod persuader, and a locking shaft, each of the tubular body, rod persuader and locking shaft having proximal and distal ends and positioned coaxial with one another; positioning the distal end of the insertion instrument, and locking cap, into operative engagement with the spinal rod; engaging the anchoring device with the distal end of the tubular body; rotating the proximal end of the rod persuader to longitudinally advance the locking cap and spinal rod distally towards the anchoring device, the proximal end and the distal end of the rod persuader being rotatable relative to one another; and after the locking cap is advanced, rotating the locking shaft to rotate the locking cap thereby.

Techniques are disclosed for identifying and stashing all or portions of application data to a network accessible storage device or location. Identifying and stashing are accomplished in a fashion that is transparent to a user such that a user is not burdened by the process of managing and stashing a full or partial set of application data. The system, the application, or a combination of system components and the application persist and manage data locally and stash portions of the local data to one or more network accessible storage devices or locations. One or more links are provided in place of the stashed portions of data. The application uses the links in a same or similar fashion as handling local data while providing little to no loss of functionality due to all or portions of the local data being stashed.

Stashing of locally persisted data to network accessible storage

Faces may be indexed and identified using visual and social criteria. In one example, the visual features of a face are quantified, and the quantification of the features is represented in a vector. Aspects of the vector are then represented in the form of text strings. Social context surrounding the face is also represented in the form of text strings. The text strings&#x2014;both the visual-based strings and/or the social-based strings&#x2014;are associated with the face, and are stored in an index. The association of these strings with the face then may make the face text-searchable on both its visual and social features. Searches on these visual and/or social features may be used to help to assist in identifying new images of faces, or to propose tags for users to apply to photos.

Face recognition using social data

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David A Nichols