Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kedar Hirve

Cenk Ergan

Samuel R Fortiner

Rafael V Cintron

Sandra G Roberts

Prabhakar Marnadi

Katerina V Sedova

Karen Elizabeth Parker Anderson

Israel Hilerio

Jeremy Lee Dewey

Martin D Hall

Ivan Dimitrov Pashov

Jason Joseph Weber

David Joel Sheldon

Jonathan A Silvera

Walter V Von Koch

David Ruzyski

Matthew R Cox

Jason Kepner

Evelyn R Thomas

M David Fields, Jr

Michael D Decker

Stephen E Giscombe

Qiang Chen

Joshua R McCammon

Heather Grantham Brodie

Luca Beltrami

Martin Andras Chisholm

David Vaughn Winkler

Dany Joly

Victor Ngo

Travis St Onge

Adam U Herchenroether

Aaron Cardwell

Matthew Labunka

Examples described herein provide various devices that enable users to participate in a session. The examples allow a user that is unable to hear, or that is incapable of hearing, to participate in an in-session voice chat by receiving text messages that have been converted from speech to text (e.g., transcribed messages). The user enables a speech-to-text conversion feature on his or her own device. Based on the enabled feature, a notification can be sent to other devices participating in the session. Based on the notification, the other devices are tasked with capturing utterances and sending corresponding speech data to a speech-to-text conversion device so that voice communications can be converted to text messages. Subsequent to conversion, the text messages can be displayed in a chat interface presented as part of the displayed content for the session.

Session speech-to-text conversion

In one or more embodiments, an application program interface (API) is provided and enables an entity, such as an application, script, or other computing object to register to receive callbacks immediately and, without specifying a time constraint. In this approach, the API does not rely on a timer, such as a system timer. Rather, a non-timer based queue, such as a message queue-type approach is utilized. Specifically, callbacks that are registered through this API can be placed on the message queue and work associated with the registered callback can be performed through the normal course of processing messages and events in the message queue. Over time, such results in a callback pattern that allows an associated web browser and applications such as web applications to remain responsive, while increasing performance and power efficiencies.

Power efficient callback patterns

Browser storage management techniques are described. In one or more implementations, inputs are received at a computing device that specify maximum aggregate sizes of application and database caches, respectively, of browser storage to be used to locally store data at the computing device. For example, the inputs may be provided using a policy, by an administrator of the computing device, and so on. The maximum aggregate sizes are set of application and database caches, respectively, of browser storage at the computing device to the sizes specified by the inputs.

Browser storage management

In one or more embodiments, a framework is provided in which image decoding can be delayed based on heuristics, and later initiated based on a use type associated with the image or the likelihood that the image is going to be used. For example, a use history and priority system can enable images that are currently being rendered and/or are likely to get rendered to be decoded before images that have a history of being downloaded but never used. Accordingly, by decoupling image download from image decoding, CPU resources and memory can be more efficiently utilized.

Delayed image decoding

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