Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rovi Technologies Corporation

Junmin Hao

Bradley Robert Pettit

Nicolae Surpatanu

Sean Krishan Sharma

In accordance with one or more aspects, a request to run an application is received. The application has an associated tune manifest that identifies one or more resources that the application may use. The tune manifest is compared to a device resource record, and a check is made, based at least in part on the comparing, whether the one or more resources identified in the tune manifest can be satisfied by the device. If the one or more resources identified in the tune manifest can be satisfied by the device, then the application is run; otherwise, a notification of a conflict between the application and the device is presented. Additionally, when the application exits, a device tune state that identifies a content source to which the device was tuned prior to running the application can be retrieved and the device restored to this device tune state.

Application tune manifests and tune state recovery

This document describes tools that enable a computing device to retrieve large data in smaller blocks. The tools also allow the computing device to receive and display data that does not include display formatting information through the use of templates.

Large sets of data

This document describes tools capable of updating media-location data for media-playing entities. These tools allow a developer of an application to use data binding to update media-location data for the media-playing entities without the need to write custom code.

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Junmin Hao