Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Joerg Raymond Brown

Neil A Brench

David R Anderson

Pradip Kumar Fatehpuria

Andrew Clinick

Bharath Siravara

Mark H Krueger

John Carl Simmons

Anand Muthurajan

Edward Mark Tecot

Arthur William James Freeman

Shannon C Hegg

Gabriel Gottlieb

Brent Charles Allen

Sanjay Dhanraj Sahgal

Stacy L Yust

Amit Ramraz

Deepa Rajagopal

Sampathkumar Ramakrishnan

Various embodiments can control access to a computing resource (e.g., a memory resource) by detecting that a high priority activity is accessing the resource and preventing a lower priority activity from accessing the resource. The lower priority activity can be allowed access to the resource after the high priority activity is finished accessing the resource. Various embodiments enable memory operations to be mapped to account for changes in data ordering that can occur when a lower priority activity is suppressed. For example, when an activity requests that data be written to a logical memory region, a mapping is created that maps the logical memory region to a physical memory region. The data can then be written to the physical memory region.

Resource access control

Various embodiments enable a device to create a pool of at least one empty application. An empty application can be configured to contain resources that are common across one or more other applications and initialize the resources for the one or more other applications effective to reduce startup time of the other applications. In one or more embodiments, an empty application can further be populated with the one or more other applications effective to cause the one or more other applications to execute. Alternately or additionally, a device can be monitored for an idle state, and, upon determining the device is in the idle state, at least one empty application can be created.

Process pool of empty application hosts to improve user perceived launch time of applications

Various embodiments allow for managed copies of multimedia content to be made by end users. The managed copy process can ensure that end users can make legitimate and controlled copies of content while, at the same time, give content producers the ability to control and authorize such copies.

Protocol for managed copy of media content

Various embodiments pertain to methods and systems for providing multi-source content in electronic program guides (EPGs). In at least some embodiments, various techniques can present the viewer with a user interface, such as a grid, that is efficiently and intelligently assembled and managed to foster a desirable user experience.

Methods and systems for providing multi-source content in electronic program guides

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