Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Google Inc.

Apple Inc.

John H Palevich

Martin Taillefer

Stephen G Perlman

Erick Tseng

Michael Burrows

Jeffrey D Yaksick

Renaud-Roland Hubert

David P Conway

Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza

Jason Matthew Gould

David Floyd Aronson

Adam Bliss

Matthew William Lee

Neel B Parekh

Parham Mohadjer

Matthew Russell Kimball

James A Lundblad

Jerome M Okun

Karen Elaine Stevens

Ming Jia

Paul Joyce

Andrew Goossen

A method includes outputting a first graphical representation corresponding to a first group of one or more audio files and a second graphical representation corresponding to a second group of one or more audio files, wherein the first group is defined based on a respective first metadata attribute value for each audio file from the first group; receiving a user selection of the first graphical representation; and, in response to the user selection, moving the second graphical representation, thereby defining an expansion area, and outputting, within the expansion area, at least one additional graphical representation corresponding to a subgroup of the first group, wherein the subgroup is defined based at least in part on a respective second metadata attribute value for each audio file from the subgroup.

In place expansion of aggregated views

A computer-implemented visual navigation method includes providing from a wireless mobile device, over a public wireless network to a server located remotely from the wireless mobile device, information identifying a geographic location. The method also includes receiving in response, from the server, image data of digital images captured from an location at the geographic location, displaying the image data to a user of the mobile device as an image of an image space around the geographic locations, and panning the image within the image space automatically in response to user motion of the wireless mobile device.

Motion-controlled views on mobile computing devices

A method for analyzing the performance of a video game uses a diagnostic tool that is associated with application code of the video game. The diagnostic tool is activated when the video game is in operation, and real-time performance data is captured and displayed. A warning is generated when a performance metric violates a pre-set condition. The warning may be displayed on a display screen that is used to provide information for rectifying the violation.

Real-time analysis of performance data of a video game

A method and system that combines efficient caching and buffering to provide a network file system, that may utilize data stored in one or more compressed image files of sequentially arranged byte stream data. As an application requests file opens and file reads of a file system, one or more drivers convert the block requests into HTTP: byte range requests or the like in order to retrieve the data from a remote server. As the data is received, it is reconverted and adjusted to match the application's request. Sequential block access patterns can be detected and used to request additional data in a single request, in anticipation of future block requests, thereby increasing efficiency. Local caching of received data, including caching after uncompressing received data that was compressed, further increases efficiency. A compressed file system format optimized for sequential access is also described that when used, further improves the efficient data access.

Network file system

System and method for converting and reconverting between file system requests and access requests of a remote transfer protocol

An apparatus and method is disclosed for reducing flicker in an interlaced computer generated raster-scanned display. Several circuits and methods are described for implementing vertical filtering. In general, the data for a given pixel on the nth, nth+1, nth+2 . . . nth+N line is read from memory and convolved to provide data for a given pixel on a display line before pixel data for other pixels along these lines is read from memory.

Vertical filtering apparatus for raster scanned display

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

John H Palevich