Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jesse Sage Schreiner

Mei Ling Wilson

Matthias Baer

Andrew Clinick

Daniel Dinu

Andrew Raffman

This document describes techniques for, and apparatuses capable of, provider-specific parsing for content retrieval. In one embodiment, a user's computing device receives code (e.g., an executable script) from a content provider and utilizes a parsing scheme associated with the content provider to parse the code and determine an address that can be used to retrieve an instance of content. The instance of content can then be retrieved using the address and without executing the code. In some embodiments, the parsing scheme is specific to the content provider and can be updated based on a change to the code.

Provider-specific parsing for content retrieval

Various embodiments enable visual elements or objects, such as two-dimensional raster images, to be packed into a bounding region, such as a rectangular bounding region, in a manner that reduces wasted space. In at least some embodiments, a two-dimensional object packing component attempts to fit individual objects into the bounding region. The two-dimensional object packing component utilizes a span list to keep track of available space by tracking spans within the bounding region. Spans can occur laterally-adjacent placed objects and/or adjacent a placed object's bottom edge. In one or more embodiments, the span list is sorted left-to-right, top-to-bottom.

Two-dimensional object packing

A simplified notification scheme that looks at past behavior of accepting or rejecting messages and modifies whether and/or how future similar notifications are displayed. For example, if a user consistently ignores or rejects a pop-up notification, the system can modify whether or not such a pop-up notification is displayed again. In one specific embodiment, a wireless network can be detected by a mobile phone. The phone can determine whether or not a pop-up notification related to the wireless-network detection should be displayed based on past behavior of the user.

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Jesse Sage Schreiner