Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Logananth Seetharaman

Jason White

Anthony Vincent Discolo

Stacey Law

Timothy Seeds Milligan

Todd G Roshak

Chris Turkstra

Mehmet Iyigun

John Michael Sheehan

Abolade Gbadegesin

Shaheen Ashok Gandhi

Adam M Smith

Min Liu

Thomas Fahrig

Jonathan David Wiswall

Gregory John Colombo

Kunal Gandhi

Adam D Stritzel

James Andrew Goossen

Jason Ghssane Salameh

Graham Wong

Muhammad Usman Anwer

Jeremy B Gup

Chin Hung Lam

Daniel Ryan Mitchell

Adam Thomas Mollis

Jill Cary Bender

Denise Su-Li Goh

Fan Xiao

Steven Michel Pronovost

Thobias Jones

Michael Charles Crandall

Edmund Lui

John R Schmeichel

Kelly W Connell

Steve Michel Pronovost

Anthony Discolo

Todd Roshak

Timothy S Milligan

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

Embodiments disclosed herein are related to systems, methods, and computer readable medium for allocating one or more system resources for the exclusive use of an application. The embodiments include receiving a request for an exclusive allocation of one or more system resources for a first application, the one or more system resources being useable by the first application and one or more second applications; determining an appropriate amount of the one or more system resources that are to be allocated exclusively to the first application; and partitioning the one or more system resources into a first portion that is allocated for the exclusive use of the first application and a second portion that is not allocated for the exclusive use of the first application, the second portion being available for the use of the one or more second applications.

Operating system support for game mode

An integrated gaming and media experience is disclosed, including television viewing on a gaming console. A client component is installed via a bootstrap process that uses authentication information to accomplish this task. Once installed, it integrates itself into a typical gaming display. Various console hardware details are used to enable communication between the client component and downstream servers providing the content. Once up and running, the client component allows users to watch television as if they were interacting with a set-top box. Users may switch between various applications on the gaming console, including but not limited to game titles, DVR, VOD, DVD programs, and so on.

Television viewing on gaming consoles

An integrated gaming and media experience is disclosed, including recording of content on a gaming console. A digital video recorder (DVR) application running alongside a television client component allows users to record media content on the gaming console. The DVR application also integrates itself with the console menu. Once integrated, users can record media content while playing games. Alternatively, users can record content when the gaming console is turned off. The recorded content can include television programming, gaming experience (whether local or online), music, DVDs, and so on. When in the recording state, users can also switch between various other media modes, whether gaming, television, and so on.

Recording media on gaming consoles

A disk-seek optimized file system is provided that may be advantageously deployed in a computer system that supports simultaneous Digital Video Recorder (DVR) functionality and user interaction, such as recording several television (TV) shows while simultaneously supporting a video game played by a user. A computing device hard drive is logically divided into 'chunks,'&#x2014;a first chunk comprising volume metadata, and subsequent chunks comprising equal size 'blocks.' A first block of a subsequent chunk comprises block bitmaps and a stream identifier table. The block bitmaps indicate subsequent blocks in the chunk that contain stream data for particular streams, which are identified in corresponding entries in the stream identifier table.

Disk seek optimized file system

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Logananth Seetharaman