Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Michael John Liddell

Stephen Harris Toub

Igor Ostrovsky

John Martin Miller

Michael Lee Loritsch

Ross Tucker

Eli Harlan Pinkerton

Runhe Tian

Sapan Purohit

Amit Vasant Kulkarni

Timothy Bradford Shoaf

Shawn Paul Smith

Delivery of directed content to semi-connected devices is provided. In some embodiments, content packages configured to be presented at a semi-connected device can be partitioned into alternative content packages. The alternative content packages are seamless to a publisher of the content packages and that permits backward compatibility with existing technology. Configuration of presentation attributes of the alternative content packages can be accomplished via rules that contemplate several delivery factors, such as publisher of the content package; type of the content package; type of the semi-connected device; and/or a model of such a device. Application of such rules for a content package can result in customized metadata that controls presentation of a media asset associated with the content package.

Presentation of directed content at semi-connected devices

Dynamic data partitioning is disclosed for use with a multiple node processing system that consumes items from a data stream of any length and independent of whether the length is undeclared. Dynamic data partitioning takes items from the data stream when a thread is idle and assigns the taken items to an idle thread, and it varies the size of data chunks taken from the stream and assigned to a thread to efficiently distribute work loads among the nodes. In one example, data chunk sizes taken from the beginning of the data stream are relatively smaller than data chunk sizes taken towards the middle or end of the data stream. Dynamic data partitioning employs a growth function where chunks have a size related to single aligned cache lines and efficiently increases the size of the data chunks to occasionally double the amount of data assigned to concurrent threads.

Dynamic partitioning of data by occasionally doubling data chunk size for data-parallel applications

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Michael John Liddell