Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Lawrence Wayne Olson

Michael John Hillberg

Sam J George

Gilles Khouzam

Michael R Harsh

Donald D Karlov

Gurpratap Virdi

Wenbo Zhang

Eldar Azerovich Musayev

Brian Ewanchuk

Federico Schliemann

Akshay Johar

John Gossman

Greg D Schechter

Serge Smirnov

Akhilesh Kaza

Jeremy B Gup

Weibing Zhan

Austin M Lamb

Greg D Schechler

Serge Smimov

Described is a technology by which code, such as an untrusted web application hosted in a browser, provides content through an interface for playback by an application environment, such as an application environment running in a browser plug-in. Content may be in the form of elementary video, audio and/or script streams. The content is in a container that is unpackaged by the application code, whereby the content may be packaged in any format that the application understands, and/or or come from any source from which the application can download the container. An application environment component such as a platform-level media element receives information from an application that informs the application environment that the application is to provide media stream data for playback. The application environment requests media stream data (e.g., samples) from the application, receives them as processed by the application, and provides the requested media stream data for playback.

Media streams from containers processed by hosted code

Control exposure techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a determination is made by a computing device as to which of a plurality of controls correspond to one or more inputs detected using one or more magnetometers, cameras, or microphones. A result of the determination is exposed by the computing device to one or more applications that are executed by the computing device.

Control exposure

A media interaction system is described herein that allows hosted applications to consume and/or produce rich media content independent of the format of the media content, while still maintaining the security of the host. The media interaction system accepts raw, uncompressed media data from a hosted application, and allows the hosted application to provide its own codec through a sandboxed API that restricts the actions the codec can perform to a set of trusted actions. Then, the application provides the uncompressed data to the system for playback. Thus, the media interaction system provides rich media content in any format that the application developer supports, and maintains the security of the user's computer system.

Hosted application platform with extensible media format

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