Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Confluent, Inc.

Jonathan Paul Rosenberg

Samuel Thomas Williams

Rhae-Christie Shaw

Don Dongwoo Kim

Sandeep Kanumuri

Charles Cummins

Paul Alexander Gusmorino, Iii

David George De Vorchik

Judson Craig Hally

Tyler Kien Beam

Daniel Max Firestone

Lyon K F Wong

Johannes P Kopf

Scott S Hysom

Gavin Dean Lazarow

Brian E Manthos

Tushar Cyril Bhatnagar

Angela Allison

Kristen Kamath

James Wesley Boerner

Jonathan Fred Keslin

Sumit Sharad Dhoble

Maria K Blees

Aidan N Low

Anish Sagar Narsian

Jett Evan Jones

Manasi Deval

Peter G Sibley

Joao Pedro Silva

Reema Bhagat

Soumya Sucharita Mishra

Elliot James Edmunds

Rishbah Tewari

Abhishek Arora

Yuanchao Yu

Johanness Kopf

Arjun Satish

Arjun Mukherji

Hemin (Herman) Xiao

Sandro Menzel

Jiro I Feingold

A cross-region data distribution service enables eventually consistent replication of data objects between geographical regions while maintaining data ordering guarantees. For data replication between two regions, the system leverages a data stream-based replication model where destination region leverages a watch API exposed by origin regions. The origin region watch API provides a resumable data stream for changes happening in the origin region that need to be replicated to destination. The system exposes distribution ability through distribution policies which are global objects that encode the source datasets and desired distribution topology. In order to solve data fanout scalability challenges where same data needs to be replicated to many regions, system leverages caching at origin watch servers. The system maintains data ordering by enforcing ordered replication stream provided by watch servers and using version based conditional optimistic concurrency control writes in destination servers.

Data distribution service

A virtual network comprising virtual machines executing at a computing environment is implemented. A software defined networking (SDN) appliance is configured to provide a connection to computing resources via a virtual network of a virtual computing environment. The SDN appliance includes a network interface card that are operable to interact with multiple field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices are configured to be a hardware acceleration device for processing data traffic, and the FPGA device is configured to ingress a packet to a dataflow on one port and egress the packet from a different port associated with a different dataflow.

Fault tolerance for SDN gateways using network switches

A computer implemented method includes receiving partially created software defined network (SDN) policy state information at a backup software defined network (SDN) appliance in response to the sending of a synchronize packet to establish a connection. The state information corresponds to a state of the connection between two endpoints that include a first active SDN appliance and a second active SDN appliance. A replica of the SDN policy state information is saved at the backup SDN appliance. An update to the SDN policy state information is received in response to the sending of an acknowledgement packet. The replica of the SDN policy state information updated at the backup SDN appliance to enable the backup SDN to transition to active.

Sharing SDN policy state information between SDN appliances

A first display device and method are provided for accelerating the coarse relocalization process of the first display device by generating a session-specific identifier and sending it to a second display device, which transmits the identifier to a cloud service, which returns at least a portion of a map data set corresponding to the identifier. The returned map data set is then stitched into the local map data of the first display device to create an integrated map, which is used to render one or a plurality of holograms. The first display device may comprise a processor, a memory operatively coupled to the processor, and a fingerprint program stored in the memory and executed by the processor.

Coarse relocalization using signal fingerprints

A method and apparatus are provided for generating a document preview. According to the method, a preview handler provides an interface to one or more previewers. The previewers are software components capable of generating a visual preview for one or more document types. In response to a request from a host application to generate a preview for a document, the preview handler is operative to identify the appropriate previewer for generating a preview for the document. The preview handler may then call the previewer and instruct the previewer to load the document and to show the preview in a sub-window of a window provided by the calling host application.

Method, system, and apparatus for providing a document preview

Described herein is a system architecture that supports generating analytics data about files hosted by a file hosting server. Also described herein are various graphical user interfaces that are well-suited to present at least a portion of the analytics data to a user.

Computing system architecture for producing file analytics

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for generating improved planar panorama imagery, which may be used to view street-level, human-scale locations along a desired path, for example. One or more desired objects can be detected in source imagery that may be used to produce the resulting planar panorama imagery. Respective object regions comprising a desired object can be identified in one or more frames of the source imagery. One or more portions of the source imagery that do not comprise the object region for the desired object can be joined with at least some of the one or more frames that do comprise the object region for the desired object. The resulting planar panorama imagery can thus comprise the desired object. Also, the planar panorama imagery can be generated so as to lack one or more non-desired objects and/or adverse effects that may result therefrom.

Planar panorama imagery generation

Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for creating a three-dimensional model of an image. Image data, comprise a series of images of a location, such as along a route, can be received. The image data can comprise a first image element location for a first image element, where the first image element location may correspond to a three-dimensional point in the image, such as a location in the image with a depth from a point of observation. The first image element can be segmented into a first fa&#xe7;ade plane using the first image element location. The first fa&#xe7;ade plane can be merged with a second fa&#xe7;ade plane, resulting in a three-dimensional model of the image. The second fa&#xe7;ade plane can comprise a second image element, where the image data comprises a second image element location for the second image element.

Image three-dimensional (3D) modeling

Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for selecting source imagery for a planar panorama comprising a curved path. The curved path can be identified in a block of source imagery, where the source imagery comprises inside-curve source imagery for an inside curve of the curved path. Image data from a first source image from the inside-curve source imagery can be compared with image data from a second source image from the inside-curve source imagery. If image data of the first source image sufficiently overlaps image data of the second source image the first source image can selected for inclusion in a set of images to be used for the planar panorama, while the second source image may not be so selected (e.g., to mitigate artifacts, object overlap, repeated objects, etc. in the planar panorama).

Source imagery selection for planar panorama comprising curve

A previewing system that permits selection from a plurality of interactive previewers for use in a system shell browser is disclosed. The previews may be extensible, such that different application developers may write custom previews for different file types, and the shell browser may follow established criteria to select an appropriate preview. The user may enter criteria to control which previewers are used for different situations, such as when certain file types are selected for previewing. Size of an available display area for the preview may be a criterion, such that resizing the preview area may cause a different preview to be displayed. The preview may be executed as a separate process from the browser so that crashes and hangs in the previewer process do not fatally affect the browser process. Previews may be incorporated within common file dialogs offered by an underlying operating system, such that different applications may share the common previewer.

System and method for shell browser

A navigation tool permits access between separate program modules by communicating state information between each program. By communicating state information between separate program modules, it is possible for a user to access previous screens of data, irrespective of the program module which generated the display, or to advance to previous screens of data if the user has already accessed a previous display. In other words, interactions between separate program modules become seamless in presentation to the user, analogous to how information can be displayed with a internet browser or as if separate program modules were operating under a common shell.

Method and system for navigating between program modules

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