Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jeremy P Robinson

Abolade Gbadegesin

Akhilesh Kaza

Adina Magdalena Trufinescu

Andrew Clinick

David Andrew Whitechapel

Samarth Harish Shah

Timothy Michael Kurtzman

Thamer A Abanami

Megan Lesley Tedesco

Craig Lichtenstein

Mark D Zuber

Kurt Koptis

Samarth H Shah

Adina M Trufinescu

David A Whitechapel

Timothy M Kurtzman

Resources used by a foreground process associated with an application as well as one or more background tasks associated with the application that are running as separate processes on the computing device are tracked. Historical data relating to resource usage by the application is utilized to predict a resource usage amount for the application which is then stored. A subsequent launch of the application can be conditioned upon whether the predicted resource usage amount is available. If the predicted resource usage amount is available, it can be allocated to the application and the application can be launched. If the application then exceeds the predicted resource usage amount, other processes executing concurrently therewith may be terminated to free up the resource. Regardless of how the application performs, new resource usage data is obtained for the application, which is then used to adjust the predicted resource usage amount.

Resource management based on device-specific or user-specific resource usage profiles

Techniques are described that enable an application executing on a computing device to dynamically control how an allocated portion of a resource of the computing device is to be divided among multiple processes associated with the application. For example, an application executing on the computing device may interact with an operating system of the computing device to dynamically control how an allocated portion of a resource of the computing device is to be divided among a foreground process associated with the application and one or more background processes associated with the application.

Dynamic resource management for multi-process applications

Caulking container

Media devices that transfer content to other devices may man age a user's received media files by creating a media device inbox. Shared content may be stored in an inbox cache that is separate from the device's main content library to exclude limited-access inbox content from interaction with the device's main library. Further, inbox content may be altered upon expiration to reduce resource consumption and inbox clutter.

Inbox management

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Jeremy P Robinson