Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kevin Daniel Resnick

Juan Vicente Esteve Balducci

John Allen Atwood

Gregory Bolles

Selvaraj Nalliah

Patrick Tousignant

Shivakumar Seetharaman

Salman Zafar

Taylor Anthony Lafrinere

Anh Phuong Tran

Samuel Neely

Adrian Dragomir

Albert Liu

Mark Sievert Larsen

Susan Annette Loh

Katy Chia-wen Chen

Philip W Kelley

Andrew Hsiao

Bryan MacFarlane

Ahn P Tran

The embodiments described herein generally relate to a method and system for synchronizing multiple classes with disparate schemas in a single collection through the use of the same synchronization request and/or synchronization key. A collection of different types of items may be synchronized while using the unique schema for each class. Further, different synchronization options, e.g., filtering, truncation, and body settings, may be applied to each class. In a synchronization request, an option block within a synchronization command notifies the server to synchronize the class specified in the option block. The option block may also specify the options, or settings, if any, to apply to the class. Multiple option blocks may be included in the synchronization command to specify the synchronization of multiple classes. Where multiple classes are specified, the server responds with the synchronized items of all such classes while maintaining each class's unique schema.

Synchronizing multiple classes with disparate schemas in the same collection

Searching for objects in a distributed version control system. A method includes accessing a single index. The single index indexes objects in a plurality of pack files. Each pack file is a single object container aggregating the content of what would otherwise be loose objects of a version control system within the single object container such that the single object container includes the aggregated content. The method further includes from the single index, determining a location of a version control system object by determining from the index which pack file from among the plurality of pack files the object is stored in, and a location in the pack file where the object is stored. The method also includes retrieving the version control system object from the pack file.

Efficient DVCS storage system

A centralized version control system stores and tracks commits as a set of database tables in a central repository that may be shared by others. A commit represents a version of a repository of files at a given point in time. The centralized version control system allows users to query for information relating to the history of the commits. The queries are implemented through operations performed on database tables using a database query language. The configuration of the database tables in this manner enables the system to process the queries more readily.

Version control system using commit manifest database tables

In embodiments, mobile devices request and utilize recipient caches. Recipient caches store information regarding previous recipients of communications. The information on recipients includes when the recipient was last contacted and the frequency with which a recipient is contacted. In embodiments, a mobile device requests a recipient cache from a server. When a user types a string of text, the mobile device then uses the recipient cache as well as the contacts and emails on the mobile device and resolves a recipient list. In other embodiments, a recipient cache on a server is updated when a mobile device sends a message with new recipient information. In another embodiment, a server resolves conflicting messages by using recipient information.

Auto-resolve recipients cache

Coordinating delivery of data to a first computing device from a plurality of second computing devices based on known power times for a resource associated with the first computing device. One of the second computing devices requests a time interval for data delivery. The first computing device compares the requested time interval to the known power times to determine a delivery time. For example, the requested time interval is compared against activation times for recurrent schedules that use the resource, and against previously determined delivery times. The second computing device delivers data at the determined delivery time to preserve the resource. In some embodiments, the delivery time is adjusted for processing delays and network latency.

Coordinating data delivery using time suggestions

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