Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Marc David McClure

Adrian Dragomir

Jianping Yin

Abolade Gbadegesin

Vishal Vikram Ghotge

Megan Galbraith Donahue

Yasser Elsayed Shaaban

Peter J Torr

Darin Miller

Jorge I Raastroem

Timothy Daniel Noonan

Rachel Jiang

Chittur Padmanabhan Subbaraman

Gregory Arthur De Souza

Pavan Rajamohan Hullumane

Anish Desai

Hagen Green

Jon Morris

Benjamin Richard Vincent

Robert Paul St Pierre

Geir Olsen

Kevin Grey

Ran Michaely

The subject disclosure is directed towards a background transfer service that provides platform-level support for third party applications to queue data transfers to run in the background, including when the application is not running in the foreground. Applications may thus perform downloading and uploading tasks in the background; however the background transfer service manages the data transfer requests so as to limit each background application's ability to interfere with foreground application operations, that is, by controlling resource usage according to one or more policies.

Background transfer service for applications on mobile devices

Systems and methods for email synchronization may include a computing device with a token bucket. The token bucket allows for temporary storage of tokens, each token authorizing a synchronization of at least one email application running on the computing device. The device may determine a frequency of received email communications associated with an email account managed by the at least one email application and hosted by an email server. The determining may be based on one or more characteristics associated with the token bucket. The determined frequency may be compared with a threshold value. When the determined frequency is equal to or lower than the threshold value, a push communication channel may be established with the email server, the push communication channel for receiving server-initiated email push communications. The at least one email application may be synchronized with the email account by receiving push communications using the push communication channel.

Battery efficient synchronization of communications using a token bucket

Two-factor authentication can be provided transparently to a user by virtue of proof information available at a mobile communication device. For example, after an access request for a service is sent, an authentication code can be intercepted from a responsive incoming message. The technologies can incorporate a cost proof as part of a cost optimization. Other features such as obfuscation and separate channels can be incorporated into the technologies to provide a superior user experience while implementing superior security.

Transparent two-factor authentication via mobile communication device

An invalid digital certificate can be saved and subsequently compared to an incoming digital certificate when performing a security check. If a subsequently provided digital certificate does not match the saved digital certificate, an error condition can be generated. Because a digital certificate can be invalid for non-malicious reasons, such technologies can be useful for improving software security.

Securely handling server certificate errors in synchronization communication

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