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Michael John Novak

Kipley J Olson

Daniel F Plastina

David M Nadalin

Chris J Guzak

Tedd Dideriksen

Amnon Itamar Govrin

Geoffrey Harris

Chris Feller

Scott David Hoogerwerf

Kevin P Larkin

Oded Yehuda Shekel

Brian R Meyers

Jonathan Marshall Cain

Frank G Sanborn

Sangeeta Ranjit

Kiernon Reiniger

Tyler Kien Beam

Marc Wautier

Anshul Rawat

Ping Xie

Raju Jain

Neal Robert Christiansen

Christopher Clayton McConnell

Relja Ivanovic

Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton

Jack Allen Nichols

Kenneth Lynn Crocker

Robert Paul St Pierre

Craig Ashley Barkhouse

Thomas Henry Alphin, Iii

Daniel Vincent Fiordalis

Ramanarayanan Ramani

Andrew L Silverman

Sriram Srinivasan

Mohammed Samji

Kenneth Martin Tubbs

Dennis A Kiilerich

Marcus Eduardo Markiewicz

David Fields

John Heinrich Lueders

Jonathan Alexander Bockelman

Adam Christopher Czeisler

Juan-Lee Pang

Michal Krzysztof Piaseczny

John Edward Gallardo

Kyle Thomas Beck

Gerald Haslhofer

Shawn Patrick Henry

Chani Ayn Doggett

Marcelo Albuquerque Fernandes Mas

Kiran Tatapudi

Valerie Louise Wang

Benjamin M Yim

Raghu Krishnamurhty

Subha Santhanam

Calvin Tonini

Abolade Gbadegesin

Ravisankar V Pudipeddi

Alexandre Vicktorovich Grigorovitch

Judson Craig Hally

Kirt A Debique

Simon Clarke

Patrick Nelson

Sohail Baig Mohammed

Elizabeth Picchietti Salowitz

Shrey Nitin Shah

William David Sproule

Keith W Ballinger

Balaji Balasubramanyan

Adil Ahmed Sherwani

Sumedh N Barde

John C Whytock

David B Perry

William Frederick Kiefer

Shafiq Rahman

Bartosz Henryk Paliswiat

Phillip Feng Lu

Dileep R Kumar

John Wesley Terrell

Miko Arnab S Bose

Pradeep K Jha

Ilia Sacson

Xiqiang Zhi

Yisheng Yao

Christopher Kevin Brownell

Sivaramakrishna Mopati

Srinivasan Malayala

Stuart Alan Wyatt

John P Mullally, Iv

Edward T Gausman

Frank Z Chang

Valeh Valiollah Pour Amiri

Ioannis Giannoumis

Sripresanna Sripresanna

Michael M Tse

Stephen T Leroux

Mahmut Arslan

Vikas Chandra Bhatia

Thirumanjunathan Vellaiappan

Files can be located using a durable and universal file identifier. A content URI includes a file protocol URI specifying a path to a file. The file protocol URI includes a query string specifying properties of the file that can be utilized to locate the file, such as an object ID property specifying a GUID for the file and a volume ID property specifying a GUID for a storage volume storing the file. The content URI can be utilized to locate the file using the file protocol URI and its associated query string even if the file has been moved, renamed, or is accessed on a different computing device. Operations can then be performed using the file, such as resuming a previously performed activity that used the file.

Locating files using a durable and universal file identifier

Technologies are described for generating, acquiring, transferring, and manipulating sets of interaction representations, where an interaction representation represents user interaction with content on a computer device, typically using a software application. The set can be represented as an interaction representation. To facilitate set creation, including adding items to a set, a request can be sent to an application to provide an interaction representation, such as an interaction representation of a current state of user-content interaction associated with the software application. Sets can be associated with different types, where the set type can determine whether, and what types, of interaction representations can be added to a set. Sets can be associated with expiration events, where the interaction representation for the set, and in some cases the component interaction representations, can be deleted upon the occurrence of the expiration event. In some cases, a set can be designated not to expire.

Creation, management, and transfer of interaction representation sets

A file system executing on a computing device may store a placeholder for a file on secondary storage of the computing device. The placeholder may comprise a sparse data stream containing none or some of the data of the file and information which enables the remotely stored data of the file to be retrieved from the network. As some or all of the data for the file is being stored remotely, the computing device may rely on a storage virtualization provider to create metadata for the file. Thus, the file system executing on the computing device may receive, from the storage virtualization provider, a request to store metadata associated with the file. In response to this request, the file system may store the metadata as a Binary Large Object (BLOB) in a secondary data stream of the placeholder for the file.

Metadata storage for placeholders in a storage virtualization system

Described herein is a system and method for using object references as a data type. In response to a request for an object reference for an object by a consuming application, the object reference is generated by a source application. The object reference comprises a data structure comprising an activation uniform resource identifier for activating the referenced object, information for visually representing the object reference, and, optionally, metadata that describes the referenced object. The generated object reference is provided to an operating system component by the source application which provides the object reference to a consuming application. The consuming application can display information regard the object reference in accordance with the information for visually representing the object reference included in the object reference. The user can request reactivation of the object referenced by the object reference.

System and method for using object references as a data type

A computing system includes at least one processor and memory storing instructions executable by the at least one processor, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the computing system to instruct a synchronization engine to synchronize first and second versions of a file, the first version being stored on a first storage system and the second version being stored on a second storage system, receive a backoff indicator corresponding to the file, based on the backoff indicator, instruct the synchronization engine to backoff synchronizing changes to the file, and allow the changes to the file to be synchronized by a co-authoring application, maintain a first set of collaborative metadata indicative of content of the first version of the file, and maintain a second set of collaborative metadata indicative of content of the second version of the file.

Coordinating file synchronization between a sync engine and another application that supports document collaboration

Storage virtualization techniques allow files and directories to be stored remotely, for example, by a cloud storage provider, but in a manner that appears to a user or application running on a local computing device as if the files are stored locally&#x2014;even though the data of those files and directories may not be resident on the local computing device. That is, the contents of files and directories that may exist in the cloud look and behave as if they were stored locally on a computing device. The level of hydration of placeholders may be monitored and operations may be performed to reduce the impact of excessive hydration on the resources of the computing device.

Preventing excessive hydration in a storage virtualization system

Technology related to determining a user engagement with software programs is disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method can include receiving a plurality of signals indicating states of the computer and a software application executing on the computer. The method can include combining the signals to determine a user engagement with the software application. The method can include storing a user engagement log based on the determined user engagement with the software application.

Determining user engagement with software applications

Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for file synchronizing service status monitoring and error handling. A client device includes a local file system access manager that includes a status interface. The status interface is configured to receive a status message from a client-side sync manager of the client device. The client-side sync manager that communicates with a server-side sync manager at a server to synchronize data objects between file systems of the client device and server. The status message corresponds to a state of the client-side sync manager during a multi-stage start-up process for the client-side sync manager. A status caller in an application of the client device can retrieve the status message from the status interface. The status message can also be provided to a user interface for display to a user of the client device, and/or to a telemetry server for use in improving the file synchronizing service.

File synchronizing service status monitoring and error handling

Determination logic for a cloud content states framework is described herein. In implementations, a framework is configured to perform operations for management of cloud content files at the computing device on behalf of cloud storage providers. Determination logic for the framework is utilized to make state determinations in dependence upon a defined set of file sync properties. The framework operates to make assessments of the file sync properties and set states for files in accordance with the assessments. In implementations, file sync properties are related to corresponding states through a mapping data structure that maps file sync property values to different states and enables look-ups of states based on property values. The framework utilizes and references the mapping data structure to match file sync properties identified for cloud content files to corresponding states and then set states for the cloud content files accordingly.

Cloud content states determination logic

Techniques are described for obtaining user activity information and navigational mnemonic information. The activity information and navigational mnemonic information can be used to control information presented in displays in a manner that can assist a user in locating an activity using displayed navigational mnemonics. User activity information can include an application identifier and a content identifier. Navigational mnemonic information can include a resource identifier and a relevance identifier. A user can search for activities based on a relationship between a navigational mnemonic and an activity, such as a temporal relationship. Applications can register both activity information and navigational mnemonic information through an interface, and a navigational mnemonic feed service can provide navigation mnemonics that are not directly related to user activity on user computer devices.

Control of displayed activity information using navigational mnemonics

Technology related to an activity feed service is disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method can include receiving updates to activity streams, where a respective activity stream indicates an engagement of a respective user with applications executing on a respective client device connected to a network. The different activity streams associated with a particular user can be merged to generate a merged activity stream associated with the particular user. The different received activity streams can correspond to different respective client devices. The merged activity stream associated with the particular user can be transmitted over the network.

Activity feed service

Techniques are described for creating and modifying task records and for controlling information displayed to a user in corresponding task representations. The task records are associated with more or more user activities, where each activity is associated with a record having an identifier for the activity, an application identifier that indicates a software application associated with the activity, and a content identifier identifying content associated with the software application and the activity. The activity records can include activation information. A user can select a task representation and resume one or more activities associated with the task. Tasks records can be shared between different computer devices of the user, and with different users. Task and activity records can be associated with navigational mnemonics. Representations of task and activity records can be displayed proximate representations of associated navigational mnemonics to help a user locate tasks and activities of interest.

Collection and control of user activity set data and activity set user interface

Techniques are described for obtaining and displaying user activity information. For example, user activity information can include an application identifier, a content identifier, and a relevance identifier. A summary display is rendered for display that presents user activity information for user activities meeting relevance criteria. A user can select to view an activity details view, presenting information regarding all of their activity over a time period. A user can search for activities meeting particular criteria, and can view past activities along with applications currently being executed by the user.

Collection and control of user activity information and activity user interface

A statement in a software code segment for an application that associates the software code segment to a feature is identified. The software code segment includes a first code block and a second code block for the feature. A feature configuration for the feature is read from a manifest that lists a set of features in the application. When a staging option corresponds to a first staging option, the statement is evaluated against the staging option to remove one of the first code block and the second code block in executable code. When the staging option corresponds to a second staging option, the first software code block and the second code block are included in the executable code. The first code block and the second code block are configurable at runtime to be selected or not selected. The first version or the second version of the executable code are output.

Software feature compilation with runtime configuration

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