Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Maxim Mazeev

Robert J Levy

Paul Armistead Hoover

Bradley Gene Calder

Ju Wang

Shane Kumar Mainali

Michael J Patten

Shashwat Srivastav

Jiesheng Wu

Arild Einar Skjolsvold

Niranjan Nilakantan

Kevin Alan Kennedy

Sundaram Ramani

Rodger N Kline

Hemal Khatri

Padmanabha Chakravarthy Uddaraju

Abdul Rafay Abbasi

Doug Kramer

Leonidas Rigas

Scot Daniel Anderson

Daniel John Wigdor

Balan Sethu Raman

Jan-Kristian Markiewicz

Adrian James Garside

Sarah Graham Williams

Michael W Thomas

Lijiang Fang

John Guido Atkins Weiss

Anurag Gupta

Sanjay Anand

Srinivasmurthy P Acharya

Theresa B Pittappilly

Sambavi Muthukrishnan

Bryan Beatty

John Weiss

Yanbiao Zhao

Ramesh Nagarajan

Amit Shukla

Salome Jacob

Mahadevan Venkatraman

Jarrod Lombardo

Michael D Cronin

Joseph Trdinich

Sameet H Argawal

Roopali Kaujalgi

John Guido Weiss

The aggregation of multiple inputs in a touch-sensitive input device is disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises receiving multiple inputs related to a virtual object, aggregating the inputs into an aggregated output, and providing the aggregated output to an application that controls the virtual object.

Input aggregation for a multi-touch device

A control system is disclosed that is configurable (e.g., by a programmer) so as to enable input from multiple sources to capture to multiple controls. Also or alternatively, the system is configurable so as to enable input from multiple sources to capture to a single control. The system also provides a consistent and extendable scheme for filtering out conflicting events for individual controls. In one embodiment, this means that the system is configurable (e.g., based on the programmer's asserted preferences) so as to enable a selective determination as to whether additional inputs can be captured for a given control.

Selective enabling of multi-input controls

Various embodiments enable target disambiguation and correction. In one or more embodiments, target disambiguation includes an entry mode in which attempts are made to disambiguate one or more targets that have been selected by a user, and an exit mode which exits target disambiguation. Entry mode can be triggered in a number of different ways including, by way of example and not limitation, acquisition of multiple targets, selection latency, a combination of multiple target acquisition and selection latency, and the like. Exit mode can be triggered in a number of different ways including, by way of example and not limitation, movement of a target selection mechanism outside of a defined geometry, speed of movement of the target selection mechanism, and the like.

Target disambiguation and correction

Embodiments of the present invention relate to invoking and managing a failover of a storage account between partitions within a distributed computing environment, where each partition represents a key range of data for the storage account. The partitions affected by the failover include source partitions hosted on a primary storage stamp and destination partitions hosted on a secondary storage stamp, where the storage account's data is being actively replicated from the primary to the secondary storage stamp. Upon receiving a manual or automatic indication to perform the failover, configuring the source partitions to independently perform flush-send operations (e.g., distributing pending messages as a group) and then configuring the destination partitions to independently perform flush-replay operations (e.g., aggressively replaying currently pending transactions). Upon completing the flush-replay operations, designating the secondary storage stamp as a new primary storage stamp such that live traffic is directed to the new primary storage stamp.

Implementing failover processes between storage stamps

User input interpretation mechanisms can pass along user input without delay by initially treating it as freeform movement and passing it along unmodified, rather than waiting to receive a sufficient quantity of user input from which to derive a user's intentions. User input within a defined range from an initial point is freeform movement, passed along unmodified, while user input beyond that range can be confined to a groove if it evidences an intention to move in a precisely linear manner. Grooves can be established to aid in precise vertical movement, with no horizontal deviations, precise horizontal movement, with no vertical deviations, or any other orientation. Before being passed along, user input in groove regions can be modified to center the input within the groove region and eliminate human inaccuracies, such as slight deviations to either side. User input can escape groove regions by moving orthogonally to them.

Instantaneous panning using a groove metaphor

The provision of visual responses to touch inputs is disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a computing device comprising a touch-sensitive display, a processor in operative communication with the touch-sensitive display, and memory comprising instructions stored thereon that are executable by the processor to detect a touch input made via the touch-sensitive display, display on the touch-sensitive display a first visual response to the touch input indicating that the touch input was detected by the computing device, and if the touch input is made in a touch-interactive area on the touch-sensitive display, then to display a second visual response to the touch input indicating that the touch was made in the touch-interactive area of the display.

Visual response to touch inputs

To provide data from a database in response to an application query, the database is queried an initial time to provide a first set of data. For example, a 'fast first page' may be requested, by requesting that all data which might appear on a first page to be displayed is obtained from the database first. After this, one or more subsequent asynchronous queries obtain the remaining information responsive to the query. Or, certain columns from the database ('spine columns') may be requested in the initial query of the database, and the rest of the data requested subsequently. Thus, information needed to make an initial presentation to a user can be obtained first, and other information filled in subsequently.

Fast rich application view initiation

Rich structured data for items in a file system that allows different kinds of data to be identified by metadata is mapped into a set of search properties for a desktop search service, which is a flat list. This is applicable to any rich structured data that should be mapped into search properties for a desktop search service. Included is an installation mechanism to install these mappings and an execution infrastructure for utilizing the generated SQL from the mappings to extract search properties from items.

Defining and extracting a flat list of search properties from a rich structured type

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Maxim Mazeev