Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kenneth Wade Stufflebeam, Jr

Jason Michael Anderson

Steven T Kaneko

William Jefferson Westerinen

Pasquale DeMaio

Adrian Mark Chandley

Chad Magendanz

Dale Clark Crosier

Juan J Perez

Christopher Allen Schoppa

Raju Ramanathan

James Tse-Ching Yu

Yingchun Simon Zhang

A method and system for controlling the spin rate of an optical device. A device driver provides notification that media has been inserted into the optical device. A control service determines the format of information on the media. The spin rate of the optical device is locked or unlocked based on the format.

Optical drive spin rate control

A computing system that incorporates an auxiliary processor to the main system processor. The auxiliary system utilizes a separate application runtime for processes and is capable of operating even when the primary system is in an off state. Methods for load-balancing are provided based on computing needs respective to power consumption requirements. Processes that are not computationally intensive are processed by a low-power, auxiliary processor. In addition, peripheral components accessible to the overall computing system are shared.

Task-oriented processing as an auxiliary to primary computing environments

A configurable switch that enables multiple CPUs to be connected to multiple I/O devices through a single switch. The switches can be cascaded to enable more CPUs and/or more I/O devices in the tree. The configuration is transparent to the enumeration of the bus and endpoint devices. A simple management input such as SMBus or hardware strapping is used to set up the assignation of devices to CPUs. Utilization of a manager and the PCI Express hot plug controller registers enable hot-plug reconfiguration of the device tree as devices a switched between CPUs via PCI buses within the switch.

Configurable PCI express switch which allows multiple CPUs to be connected to multiple I/O devices

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Monroe, WA, United States of America

Kenneth Wade Stufflebeam, Jr