Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael Burt Goulding

Kenneth S Reneris

Srinivas Raghu Gatta

Paul W Accisano

Matus Lipka

Andrew Haon

Joseph Spencer King

Aaron Naoyoshi Sheung Yan Woo

Shawn M Thomas

Daniel Vasquez Lopez

Andrew Paul Begun

David A Braun

Alan Bennett Auerbach

Jamie Randall Kuesel

Lucas Scotta

Jason Michael Lee

Todd Myles Derksen

Bernardo Iturriaga Dubost

Shai Guday

Joseph H Matthews, Iii

Sharad Agarwal

Raman Kumar Sarin

Joseph Alton Schrader

Lijuan Qin

Steve Seixeiro

Gurpreet Virdi

Ted Tai-Yu Chen

John Yovin

John D Skovron

Jason Fergus Lee

Jeremiah T Whitaker

Timothy L Bui

David Jeremy Guy Wood

Shirlene Lim

Jennifer Anne Karr

J Spencer King

A system and method for the automatic placement of superconducting devices determines an arrangement of a series of Josephson junctions between a start point and an end point of an inductive wiring run on a superconducting circuit layout having a plurality of discrete Josephson junction placement sites by determining costs of placing each Josephson junction of the series of Josephson junctions at the plurality of discrete Josephson junction placement sites between the start point and the end point of the inductive wiring run based at least on a comparison of a target inductance value to inductances of wires connecting to the Josephson junction and selecting sites from the plurality of discrete Josephson junction placement sites to place each Josephson junction corresponding to the arrangement of the series of Josephson junctions with the least determined cost for the inductive wiring run.

Autoplacement of superconducting devices

The present disclosure relates to routing superconducting wires in superconducting circuits and in particular to efficiently routing superconducting wires that meet inductance requirements. The superconducting wire routing technique involves modeling the target location not only as a physical location, but as a physical location (e.g., x, y, and z dimensions) combined with inductance (e.g., a target inductance range). One or more other constraints may also be included in the modeling, such as a number of wires that would need to be moved/lifted, a number of circuit-vias allowing passage through layers of the circuit, an amount of cross-coupling with other inductors, and a number of wire segments.

Routing of superconducting wires

Systems and methods related to scheduling of tasks for execution in parallel based on geometric reach are described. An example method includes using a processor, processing information pertaining to a type of task to generate a plurality of areas of reach, where each of the plurality of areas of reach corresponds to a portion of a shared space. The method further includes using the processor, generating a plurality of inflated areas of reach by inflating each of the plurality of areas of reach based on a task-specific factor pertinent to the type of task. The method further includes automatically scheduling parallel execution of tasks associated with any of the plurality of inflated areas of reach satisfying a spatial constraint.

Scheduling of tasks for execution in parallel based on geometric reach

Systems and methods related to scheduling of tasks for execution in parallel based on geometric reach are described. An example method includes processing information pertaining to connectivity among superconducting components and nodes included in a shared floor plan to generate a plurality of areas of reach, where each of the plurality of areas of reach corresponds to a portion of the shared floor plan. The method further includes generating a plurality of inflated areas of reach by inflating each of the plurality of areas of reach based on a target inductance of wires for routing signals among the superconducting components and the nodes included in the shared floor plan. The method further includes scheduling parallel execution of tasks for routing wires among a subset of the superconducting components and the nodes within any of the plurality of inflated areas of reach satisfying a geometric constraint.

A digital assistant supported on computing devices such as smartphones, tablet computers, personal computers (PCs), wearable devices, game consoles, smart home devices and the like is configured with a notification system that interfaces with applications and/or other systems and resources so that the digital assistant may collect notifications across a range of a user's devices. The digital assistant may utilize a natural language interface (which may cooperate with touch and gesture interfaces) and applies awareness of context and user's behaviors to intelligently present the collected notifications on a single device for the user as a native digital assistant user experience. The digital assistant can sort notifications, group notifications together, and interact with the user to answer questions, provide information and status, and enable the user to action on a notification from the collection.

Interaction with notifications across devices with a digital assistant

Allowing a user to interact with external computing logic through a standardized user interface visualization. For instance, a user might be able to initiate an action of the external computing logic by one click, by interfacing with a slider control, and so forth. As a result of such interaction, a notification generated by the corresponding logic may be presented to a user. The notification could be presented in the same user interface visualization that was interacted with to trigger the external computing logic, or may be presented in a separate visualization, or in both. The notification could also be sent to one or more external computing entities, for instance, an email system, a mobile device, and so forth.

Visualizations for interactions with external computing logic

In embodiments of restricted execution modes, a mobile device can display a device lock screen on an integrated display device, and transition from the device lock screen to display a shared space user interface of a shared space. The transition to display the shared space user interface is without receiving a PIN code entered on the device lock screen. The mobile device implements a restricted execution service that is implemented to activate a restricted execution mode of the mobile device, and restrict access of a device application to device content while the restricted execution mode is activated. The restricted execution service can also allow a shared device application that is included in the shared space access to the device content while the restricted execution mode is activated.

Restricted execution modes

In embodiments of mobile device child share, a mobile device can display a default device lock screen on an integrated display device, and receive an input effective to transition from the default device lock screen to display a child lock screen without receiving a PIN code entered on the default device lock screen. The mobile device can receive a second input effective to transition from the child lock screen to display a child space. The mobile device implements a device share service that activates a child share mode of the mobile device, and restricts functionality of device applications and access to device content based on designated restriction limits.

Mobile device child share

Disclosed herein are technologies that allow users to create, issue, accept and participate in gaming challenges. A gaming challenge involves participants playing a gaming application to improve their rank on a leaderboard associated with the application until challenge conditions are met or the challenge expires. Challenges can be time-based, objective-based, a tournament or of other type. A challenger can create a challenge by specifying a gaming application to be played, the leaderboard to be used in the challenge, challenge type, challenge duration, and additional challenge criteria. A gaming service can maintain the leaderboard and pass challenge-related notifications between participants. Participants' computing devices can send notices indicating when a challenge has been met or when a participant's relative ranking has changed. A challenger or challengee can select an avatar expression for animating an avatar when a challenge request or acceptance or decline of a challenge is presented at a computing device.

Gaming challenges which use leaderboards that rank challenge participants

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Michael Burt Goulding