Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ingram Micro Inc.

Functionalize, Inc.

Michael Joseph Toutonghi

Loren Kohnfelder

Brian LaMacchia

Gregory Darrell Fee

Jeffrey A Bisset

Michael S Jerger

Craig T Sinclair

Alexander G Tormasov

Satoshi Nakajima

Patrick Henri Dussud

John Peter Shewchuk

Srivatsan Parthasarathy

Scott David Guthrie

Michael V Sliger

Maxim Kuzkin

Gary Steven Burd

Dmitry Robsman

Mark T Anders

Jonathan A Forbes

Jeremy D Stone

Manu Vasandani

Tracy Sharpe

Vladimir Grebenschikov

Alexey G Kobets

Ilya Baimetov

Peter Kukol

GopalaKrishna Reddy Kakivaya

Victor Kupriyanov

Serguei M Beloussov

Alexander G Gounares

Stanislav S Protassov

Jan Stephen Gray

Nir Nice

Ying Li

Anders Hejlsberg

Christopher Wellington Brumme

Melissa Wood Dunn

Craig Henry Wittenberg

Satish Ramchandra Thatte

Richard Douglas Hill

James M Lyon

Cynthia Dwork

Ronald Otto Radko

Michael D Smith

Erik B Olson

Frank V Peschel-Gallee

Scott Michael Wiltamuth

Gopal Krishna R Kakivaya

Uri Barash

Anthony Vincent Discolo

Peter H Golde

Shajan Dasan

Teresa Mah

Chad W Royal

Rebecca Ann Norlander

Edward H Wayt

Eric Wendell Johnson

Savithri N Dani

Darrell J Cannon

Boaz Feldbaum

Eric Picard

Scott G Robinson

Sefy Ophir

Vu Anh Ha

Amit Shaked

Eric Don Van Valkenburg

Brian A Lamacchia

Friedman Arie

Jaroslav Bengl

Eric B Olsen

An Application Packaging Standard (APS) is a specification defining application's life cycle in a cloud. The application's life cycle includes packaging, delivering to the cloud, verification of package, integrating (and unpacking) into the cloud, distributing to clients, licensing, functionality, updates and deletion. The APS has its own Application Programming Interface (API) for accessing the APS functions from a program code or by http/https requests. The APS provides for efficient integration of SaaS web applications into the cloud.

Method and standard for integrating aplications into a cloud

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Nano or macro material functionalization and self assembled construction mediated by tris(trimethylsilyl)silane

Method and standard for integrating applications into a cloud

Embodiments of the invention provide a method, comprising hosting content on behalf of content owners who own the content; enabling content sharers to share the content through the creation of links to the content; generating revenue through the use of the content; and sharing said revenue with the content owners and the content sharers.

Sharing and monetization of content

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for facilitating personalization of web content is provided, while protecting the privacy of the user data utilized to personalize the user's experience. A privacy vault may collect user data including user activity data, demographic data, and user interests submitted by a user. In one embodiment, the privacy vault operates on a user client device. The privacy vault sends the user data to a community vault that collects user data from multiple users. The community vault generates segment rules that whether a user belongs to a user segment, which expresses a user's interest. The segment rules are then communicated back to the privacy vault, which assigns one or more user segments to the user based on the user data available to the privacy vault and the segment rules. The privacy vault may communicate user segments to one or more content providers that supply personalized content that is selected based on the user segments provided.

Privacy vault for maintaining the privacy of user profiles

A method for a local device to establish an ad hoc communications channel with a broadcast device is disclosed. The method comprises upon determining that the ad hoc communications link with the broadcast device is required, accessing memory to obtain connection parameters for the broadcast device; and establishing a communications link with the broadcast device by sending a connection request to the broadcast device based on the connection parameters.

Transferring data using ad hoc networks

Embodiments of the invention describe a technique to Content may be viewed or accessed with a link. The access or viewing of the content may be controlled by using an encrypted link that is generated and sent to an authorized user. When the authorized user uses a client system to access the content with the link, the client system is registered and the link is associated with the client system. When the link is forwarded to another computer system and the link is received from the other computer system in an attempt the access the content associated with the link, access to the content is at least initially, denied.

Method and system to control access to content stored on a web server

In one embodiment, there is provided a method for a media storage device to manage digital content. The method comprises determining if there is digital content to be categorized into one or more galleries; automatically categorizing said digital content into the one or more galleries; and for digital content categorized into a gallery with an auto-publish flag, sending at least one of said digital content and a derivative form of said digital content to a server.

Automatic publishing of digital content

In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for a data acquisition device to transfer a new data object to a user storage device. The method comprises detecting a new data object; determining an availability of one or more user storage devices to store the new data object in response to the detecting; establishing a communications session with at least one available user storage device; and sending the new data object to the at least one available user storage device for storage therein.

Method and apparatus to transfer a new data object from a data acquisition device to a user storage device

Event messages are received from a first source, each has a subscription based-sequence number and a time stamp. The order of events within the first event source are determined on the basis of the subscription based-sequence number. Additional event messages are received from a second source each having a subscription based-sequence number and a time stamp. The events from the second event source are ordered with respect to the first event source on the basis of the time stamp within each of the at least two event messages from the first event source and the another at least two event messages from the second event source.

System and method for generalized and distributed scalable eventing system

An isolated persistent storage object accesses an isolated persistent storage region using identities of the application, an underlying component of the application, and optionally the user. Direct access to the isolated persistent storage region is available only to the isolated persistent storage object and is unavailable to other components. Accordingly, other components access the isolated persistent storage region through the isolated persistent storage object, which determines the specific location (e.g., specified by an internally constructed path name) and performs the access operation on behalf of the calling component. The application identity and the component identity are converted to typed identity names for use in the construction of the path name.

Isolated persistent storage

In one aspect, the invention provides a method for sharing content. The method is performed by a data acquisition device and comprises upon encountering a content transfer condition, if a size of content is greater than a predefined size threshold then performing a lossy compression operation on the content to reduce the size of the content to produce lossy-compressed content, and transmitting the lossy-compressed content to a predefined destination for routing to a final storage location using a packet-switched networking protocol; and at a later time, performing a synchronization operation wherein the non-lossy compressed content is transmitted to the final storage location.

Sharing digital content via a packet-switched network

In a distributed system querying and navigating data structures, databases, and XML documents in uniform and extensible manner is provided. Queries are defined that provide type information to a variety of digital objects. As such, the underlying data format is abstracted thereby allowing a single query to apply to multiple digital devices even though the multiple digital devices store their data in a different native format.

Method and system for providing a distributed querying and filtering system

A network-based distributed application system is provided in accordance with the present invention for enabling services to be established locally on a client system. The system may include an application and presentation logic, at least a portion of which is interchangeably processed by a server or a client without modification to the portion. The core functionality provided by the application may be preserved between the client and the server wherein improved network performance may provided along with improved offline service capabilities.

System and method providing multi-tier applications architecture

Communication among agile objects and context-bound objects within object-oriented programming environments, including communication across contextual boundaries, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a reference to a second object within a second context is wrapped in a proxy wrapper. A first object within a first context calls the second object via the wrapped reference. No direct reference is held by the first object to the second object. Other embodiments relate to agile objects. Agile objects called by context-bound objects execute in the contexts of their callers. The context of a calling context-bound object becomes the context of an agile object for calling of the agile object by the calling context-bound object. Direct reference to the agile object by the context-bound object is thus permitted.

Communication among agile and context-bound objects

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Michael Joseph Toutonghi