Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kurt David Wrisley

Akash Atul Shah

Hua Wang

Ralf Groene

Anthony Reed

Walid Ali

Kandarp Jani

Shiwei Wang

Kevin John Smith

Stephen Clifford Cooper

Christopher Alan Schafer

Tolga Kilicli

Robert A Farrow

Edward Charles Giaimo, Iii

Todd David Pleake

Chee Kiong Fong

Leonardo G Del Castillo

Thomas K Mehrkens

Richard F Johnson

Sujuan Tang

Mohammed Nadir Haq

Daniel James Beirne

Mark Gerard Rice

Guido Gruesshaber

Edward C Iii Giaimo

Leonardo Gilbert Del Castillo

Examples are disclosed that relate to connector systems, magnetic plug assemblies and methods for mating a magnetic plug assembly with a plurality of receptacles. In one example, a magnetic plug assembly comprises a moveable member comprising an aperture and one or more magnets. A plug tip extends through the aperture, and one or more biasing elements urge the moveable member and the one or more magnets toward a distal end of the plug tip, with the moveable member being moveable relative to the plug tip.

Magnetic plug

Provided is a plastic-lined interconnect receptacle configured to receive a plug therein. The interconnect receptacle may include a tongue with pins applied thereon for electrical contact with the plug, a metal shell comprising a plurality of inner walls configured to surround at least a portion of the tongue, and a plastic liner positioned inside the metal shell to cover at least three of the inner walls. With such an interconnect receptacle, a color of the plastic liner may be an external color of a computing device in which the interconnect receptacle is installed while maintaining compliance with a UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS or DISPLAYPORT specification.

Plastic-lined interconnect receptacle

A magnetic receptacle is described. The receptacle includes an electronic connector having an engagement feature on one or more sides of the electronic connector. The engagement feature is configured to engage a latching feature on a magnetic protrusion. The receptacle includes one or more receptacle magnets positioned adjacent the magnetic receptacle configured to deactivate the latching feature on the magnetic protrusion. In one implementation, a magnetic plug is described. The plug includes a plug tip. The plug includes one or more latching features. The plug includes one or more plug magnets positioned adjacent the plug tip. The one or more plug magnets are configured to cooperate with one or more receptacle magnets to transition the one or more latching features between an engaged state and a disengaged state.

Magnetically activated latch mechanism

A floating connector assembly device is provided. An electronic component is mounted directly or indirectly to a chassis of an electronic device. At least one conductive contact spring is mounted to the electronic component and configured to electrically couple to the electronic component. A printed circuit board having a fixed end and a free end with an electrical contact positioned between the two ends is positioned against the conductive contact spring, the contact spring being biased so that a contacting portion of the contact spring contacts the electrical contact to form an electrical connection. The electrical connection is maintained during relative movement of the conductive contact spring and the electrical contact of the printed circuit board by a bias force of the conductive contact spring.

Connector for use with printed circuit board

To address the issue of radio frequency interference with high-speed connectors, a communication port connector for use in a computing device is provided. The communication port connector may include a shell that defines a void that is configured to receive an electrical plug. Port-side electrical contacts in the shell may be configured to make electrical connections with plug-side electrical contacts. One or more double leaf spring fingers may be formed in a side of the shell, with each double leaf spring finger including a first spring finger coupled to a second spring finger. The first spring finger may be configured to contact the electrical plug, and the second spring finger may be configured to contact a chassis of the computing device, thereby creating a ground path to ground the electrical plug to the primary ground plane of the device when it is inserted into the communication port connector.

Grounding for high-speed connectors

A device may generate a media stream to be shared with other users by building a media graph, comprising a series of interconnected processing units that perform various processing tasks. However, the time involved in generating the media graph may delay the initialization of the media stream, and adjusting properties of the media stream (such as resolution or codec) may result in an interruption of the media stream while a new media graph is built. Instead, a media graph cache may be provided to cache a set of media graphs, which may be interchangeably selected for rapid initialization and adjusting of media stream properties. The media component (e.g., a videocamera) may also be configured to promote rapid adjustments to some media stream properties, while maintaining other properties (e.g., field of view and white balance) for a smooth transition between media stream property sets.

Rapidly initializing and dynamically adjusting media streams

A device may generate a media stream to be shared with other users by building a media graph, comprising a series of interconnected processing units that perform various processing tasks. However, the time involved in generating the media graph may delay the initialization of the media stream, and adjusting properties of the media stream (such as resolution or codec) may result in an interruption of the media stream while a new media graph is built. Instead, a media graph cache may be provided to cache a set of media graphs, which may be interchangeably selected for rapid initialization and adjusting of media stream properties. The media component (e.g., a video camera) may also be configured to promote rapid adjustments to some media stream properties, while maintaining other properties (e.g., field of view and white balance) for a smooth transition between media stream property sets.

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