Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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Microsoft Corporation

George M Moore

Remy Pairault

Mark H Lucovsky

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Paul J Leach

Daniel Ron Simon

Georgios Chrysanthakopoulos

Richard Bruce Ward

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen

Scott M Isaacs

Jonathan D Pincus

Arthur Zwiegincew

Dennis Richard Adler

Vasileios Zissimopoulos

Michael Burner

Robert M Hyman

Christropher Lee Mullins

Danny Thorpe

Istvan Cseri

Alexander Thomas Weinert

Eliyezer Kohen

Eric J Horvitz

Dharma Kiritkumar Shukla

Mark Eugene Russinovich

Sriram Krishnan

Aditya G Bhandarkar

Raymond Edward Endres

Benjamin Zorn

Chad Gibson

Forrest Curtis Foltz

Emre Mehmet Kiciman

Stuart Hillary Schaefer

Abhay Vinayak Parasnis

David Richard Reed

David Neal Weise

Ori Amiga

Allen L Brown, Jr

Kahren Tevosyan

Donald McNamara

Lijiang Fang

David Michael Sauntry

Ashok Chandrasekaran

Lucius Gregory Meredith

Paul Andrew Steckler

Koji Kato

John Peter Bruno, Jr

Winnie C Wu

David Alles

David Richter

Corey M Sanders

Ian C Jirka

L Gregory Meredith

Rhae-Christie Shaw

Wassef Haroun

Edward L Stubbs

Zhe Yang

Vivek Gundotra

John M Gehlsen

Jeffrey Todd Cohen

Mohit Srivastava

Dennis B Gannon

Felix Gerard Andrew

Gabriel Corvera

Daniel Thorpe

Federico Raggi

Shelly Guo

In various embodiments, methods and systems for game development based on an integrated game development cloud computing platform are provided. Development components that facilitate game development using an integrated game-cloud component are initiated. An input is received to perform a game development task. The game development task is associated with one or more games. The game development task is executed using the integrated game-cloud component. The integrated game-cloud component comprises a game-development-platform development component and a cloud-computing-platform development component combined into an integrated development component supported on the integrated game development cloud computing platform. The game development task can be associated with a first game-platform and a second game-platform of a selected game. The game-platform functions with a cross-platform support component having an integrated core module and an integrated game-platform module.

Integrated game development cloud computing platform

Embodiments are directed to providing an identity risk score as part of an authentication assertion, applying operating heuristics to determine an operating application's validity and to providing identity risk scores to requesting third parties. In one scenario, an authentication server receives from a cloud service portal various user credentials from a user. The user credentials identify a user to the authentication server. The authentication server verifies the user's identity using the received credentials and generates an identity risk score based on one or more identity factors. The identity factors indicate a likelihood that the user is a valid user. The authentication server encapsulates the generated identity risk score in an authentication assertion and sends the authentication assertion that includes the generated identity risk score to the cloud service portal.

Identity risk score generation and implementation

A utility computing portal supports public and private modules for application development in a cloud computing environment. The public nodules support downloads, customer support and access to a development community. The private modules are accessible to users with valid login credentials or those authenticated via a related entity, such as a Live ID. The private modules may include modules for testing, analysis, and billing. The utility computing portal also supports access to application configuration, for example, allowing a manager to change the number of front end and backend physical/virtual machines available to various application roles.

Mesh platform utility computing portal

A system, method and related data structures for discovering and describing computing resources available at various computing devices, and for exposing those resources as services that are addressable by software applications. The data describing the resources is arranged according to an identity-based schema. The computing resources may include, for example, storage capacity, bandwidth, processing power, input methods and mechanism, and rendering methods. The method and system are identity-based, whereby a user (with an identity) has access to the distributed resources commensurate with that identity.

Identity-based distributed computing for device resources

A utility computing portal supports public and private modules for application development in a cloud computing environment. The public modules support downloads, customer support and access to a development community. The private modules are accessible to users with valid login credentials or those authenticated via a related entity, such as a Live ID. The private modules may include modules for testing, analysis, and billing. The utility computing portal also supports access to application configuration, for example, allowing a manager to change the number of front end and backend physical/virtual machines available to various application roles.

An invention is described for securely deploying a provable identity for virtual machines (VMs) in a dynamic environment. In an embodiment, a fabric controller instructs a VM host to create a VM and sends that VM a secret. The fabric controller sends that same secret (or a second secret, such as the private key of a public/private key pair) to the security token service along with an instruction to make an account for the VM. The VM presents proof that it possesses the secret to the security token service and in return receives a full token. When a client connects to the deployment, it receives the public key from the security token service, which it trusts, and the full token from the VM. It validates the full token with the public key to determine that the VM has the identity that it purports to have.

Secure deployment of provable identity for dynamic application environments

Deployment and execution of a service in a multiple datacenter environment may be facilitated using datacenter execution templates. Developers, business managers, and other interested parties may select and/or modify a declarative execution template embodying multiple factors. The execution template may then be used to generate an execution plan, which is then executed by datacenters which run the service. The execution template may be optimized after deployment of the service, allowing for ongoing adjustment in response to changing business, regulatory, and operational factors.

Datacenter execution templates

Systems and methods for utilizing affinity groups to allocate data items and computing resources are disclosed. Upon receipt of a user preference indicating an affinity group, a token associated with that affinity group may be stored in a database. The affinity group may be associated with a geographic region or a number of data centers. Data items and computing resources may be associated with the affinity group. These data items and computing resources may be allocated to a geographic region or data center based on their association with the affinity group. These data items and computing resources may also be reallocated based on efficiency analyses or user preferences. In this way, data items and computing resources may be efficiently allocated with lower user effort.

Utilizing affinity groups to allocate data items and computing resources

A Decentralized System Services (DSS) architecture defines a framework for building fault-tolerant distributed applications across decentralized and heterogeneous systems. DSS enables 'complexity through composition' by defining distributed designs as compositions of limited function and observable services which may be quickly and dynamically assembled to perform higher level functions. DSS defines a standardized interaction between distributed services using sessionless, asynchronous communications with explicit failure semantics. Accounting for latency, failure and state management all become a natural part of the design process. DSS includes a runtime implementation for managing concurrent services&#x2014;the Common Concurrency Runtime (CCR), a protocol for service interactions&#x2014;the Web Services Application Protocol (WSAP), and a set of required service behaviors which provide for composibility, location independence, and fault tolerance&#x2014;Distributed Protocol Oriented Programming (DPOP). DSS also includes a set of base level infrastructure services which make it easy to communicate, secure, distribute, debug, and store content across devices.

Decentralized system services

Systems and methods for distributed, decentralized storage and retrieval of data in an extensible SOAP environment are disclosed. Such systems and methods decentralize not only the bandwidth required for data storage and retrieval, but also the computational requirements. Accordingly, such systems and methods alleviate the need for one node to do all the storage and retrieval processing, and no single node is required to send or receive all the data.

Distributed decentralized data storage and retrieval

In scenarios involving a data set accessible through a protocol, operations sets may be formulated for performing various operations on the data set, and may be expressed as resource scripts according to a scripting language. However, such resource scripts may be difficult to design due to the complicated aspects of the interaction, such as asynchrony, network transport, the syntax of the scripting language, and the details of the protocol. A design environment may be devised to facilitate designers in generating resource scripts, e.g., through the manipulation of visual elements. The design environment may abstract the lower-level working details of the resource scripts, and may allow designers to focus on the logical designing of the operations set. The design environment may then automatically generate the resource script from the operations set in accordance with the constraints of the script language and the protocol.

Interactive design environments to visually model, debug and execute resource oriented programs

Communication across domains is described. In at least one implementation, a determination is made that an amount of data to be communicated via an Iframe exceeds a threshold amount. The data is divided into a plurality of portions that do not exceed the threshold amount. A plurality of messages is formed to communicate the divided data across domains.

Communication across domains

Systems and methods for providing distributed, decentralized data storage and retrieval

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George M Moore