Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kunal Gandhi

John Michael Sheehan

Arunjeet Singh

Sameer Tejani

Sean Mckenna

Akhilesh (Akhil) Kaza

Abolade Gbadegesin

Jill Cary Bender

Istvan Cseri

Akhilesh Kaza

Jonathan David Wiswall

Muhammad Usman Anwer

Adam M Smith

Shawn Patrick Burke

Jason William Fuller

Peter J Torr

Darin Miller

Randal James Ramig

Jorge I Raastroem

Adam D Stritzel

Rachel Jiang

Jason Ghssane Salameh

Vijayendra Gopalrao Vasu

Sadagopan Rajaram

Timothy Michael Kurtzman

Logananth Seetharaman

Jeremy B Gup

Yashwardhan Singh

Chin Hung Lam

Daniel Ryan Mitchell

Alper Selcuk

John R Schmeichel

Kelly W Connell

Denise Su-Li Goh

Fan Xiao

Narayan Ashok Sathya

Satyanarayana Reddy Duggempudi

Systems and methods cross device application discovery and/or control. Cross device application discovery and/or control can provide for simple detection and activation of applications on remote devices. Cross device application discovery and/or control can provide for the control of remote applications in a master and slave configuration. Responsive to an activation message, an application can execute a task in an application, the task being displayed on a target device. Responsive to an activation message, an application can execute a task in an application on a target device, a task context data for the task being streamed to the source device for presentation on a display. Cross device application discovery and/or control can be enabled on a single operating system, or across a plurality of operating systems.

Cross device application discovery and control

Techniques for an application interaction platform are described. In at least some implementations, an instance of a first application can initiate a launch of an instance of a second application. In a scenario where the second application is a multiuser application, the second application can be launched as either a multiuser instance or a single user instance depending on a launch context. Implementations also enable communication among applications, such as to enable applications to exchange state information and modify their execution based on the information.

Application interaction platform

Techniques for multiuser application platform are described. Generally, a multiuser application allow interaction by multiple different users with a single executing instance of the application. Implementations include a multiuser operating system and a multiuser application programming interface that enable interaction by multiple users with an executing instance of a multiuser application.

Multiuser application platform

The subject disclosure is directed towards a technology by which background application code (e.g., provided by third-party developers) runs on a mobile device in a way that is constrained with respect to resource usage. A resource manager processes a resource reservation request for background code, to determine whether the requested resources meet constraint criteria for that type of background code. If the criteria are met and the resources are available, the resources are reserved, whereby the background code is ensured priority access to its reserved resources. As a result, a properly coded background application that executes within its constraints will not experience glitches or other problems (e.g., unexpected termination) and thereby provide a good user experience.

Constrained execution of background application code on mobile devices

Although a software developer writing software for a mobile device typically performs the development and some of the debugging of the application on a software development computer, the application also has to be debugged as it passes through the deactivate, terminate and reactivate states as it executes on the mobile device. To debug an application the developer can launch the debugger on the software development computer. The debugger can launch the application on the mobile device. If an event that terminates the application occurs, the debugger connection is terminated. In accordance with aspects of the subject matter disclosed herein, the debugger is automatically reattached to the restarted (activated) application. Reattaching the debugger automatically to the restarted application allows the developer to debug the mobile device application as an application passing through multiple states rather than debugging multiple instances of an application.

Automatic reconnection of debugger to a reactivated application

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