Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kyle Matthew Von Haden

Christopher D Edwards

Ryan Heaney

Jonathan D Esterly

March Rogers

Jonathan Seth Kaufthal

Jennifer H Hwang

Mark E Pearson

Chenguang Yang

Neculai Blendea

Dheeraj Sarpangal

Peter Michael Woods

Xiaomeng Zhao

Sang Ju Lee

Alexander Marx Gorischek

Olivier Destrebecq

Harrison Mackenzie Ting

Recognizing cloud content techniques are described herein. A designated storage location for cloud content corresponding to a service is registered locally at a device. Files stored in association with the registered storage location may be recognized as cloud content of the corresponding service. The recognized cloud content may be handled in various ways to customize the user experience and tailor interaction with cloud content. For example, icons or other visual identifiers may be used within device, operating system and/or application user interfaces to represent an association of files with a particular service based on recognition of the files as cloud content. Additionally, a registered storage location for a device may be employed to obtain relative paths to files that may be used to roam file activity lists between different devices.

Recognizing cloud content

A system is provided in which two sets of content are cached in a corresponding two caches&#x2014;a current cache and a next cache. A client renders content in the current cache and uses the next cache to define the expiration for the content in the current cache as well as provide the replacement content when the current content expires. When a client application renders the content in the current cache, the application checks whether the expiration for the current cache has been reached according to the expiration defined by the content in the next cache (which is not being rendered). If the expiration has been reached, the content in the next cache is moved to the current cache and rendered. New content can then be downloaded to fill the next cache and define the expiration for the content formerly in the next cache but now in the current cache.

Replacement time based caching for providing server-hosted content

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Display screen with user interface

Application gallery connections to dynamic server-hosted content may be provided. An application may be instantiated on a client device. Upon loading, the application may connect to an available content server and download a content manifest. An application setting, such as a privacy setting or an administrative restriction may prevent connections to the content server; otherwise the application may determine whether the content manifest lists any new content for download. New content may be downloaded and made available to users of the application. The application may also determine whether any previously downloaded content is out of date according to the content manifest and remove unused content.

Connecting galleries to dynamic server-hosted content

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