Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michal J Moskal

Jonathan Paul De Halleux

Nikolai Tillmann

Stephen Edward Hodges

Thomas J Ball

James Alexander Devine

Gabriele D'amone

Manuel Alfred Fahndrich

Wolfram Schulte

Jun Kato

Barend Hermanus Venter

Sebastian Burckhardt

Sean C McDirmid

Daniel J P Leijen

Manuel A Faehndrich

Xusheng Xiao

Jonathan Peli Paul De Halleux

The description relates to prototyping systems, including hubs for electrically connecting devices. One example can include an electrically insulative substrate and at least two connector tabs defined by the substrate, each connector tab including a data contact, a power contact, and a ground contact positioned over the substrate. A data bus can be positioned relative to the substrate and electrically connect all of the data contacts, a power bus can be positioned relative to the substrate and electrically connect all of the power contacts, and a ground bus can be positioned relative to the substrate and electrically connect all of the ground contacts.

Electronic prototyping

The description relates to prototyping systems, including hubs for electrically connecting devices. One example can include an electrically insulative substrate and at least two connector tabs defined by the substrate. Each connector tab can include a data contact a power contact and a ground contact positioned on the substrate. A data bus can be positioned relative to the substrate and electrically connect all of the data contacts, a power bus can be positioned relative to the substrate and electrically connect all of the power contacts and a ground bus can be positioned relative to the substrate and electrically connect all of the ground contacts in accordance with a first prototyping format. The example can also include adapter contacts positioned on the substrate and configured to electrically connect to a data contact, a power contact, and a ground contact of another device that complies with a second different prototyping format.

Electronic prototyping interoperability

The description relates to electronic prototyping platforms. One example can include an electrically insulative substrate having generally opposing first and second major surfaces and that includes an orientation feature that is visible on both of the first and second major surfaces. The example can include a first mounting hole through the substrate that is bordered by a first electrical conductor associated with data transmission. The example can also include a second mounting hole through the substrate that is bordered by a second electrical conductor associated with electrical ground, and a third mounting hole through the substrate that is bordered by a third electrical conductor associated with electrical power. The example can also include an edge connector tab defined by the substrate and having three exposed electrically conductive contacts that are coupled to the data electrical conductor, the ground electrical conductor, and the power electrical conductor and insulated from one another.

Modular electronic prototyping platforms

Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements for interactive user interface operation and development. For instance, some implementations may generate a user interface data structure representing a user interface, the user interface data structure being generated based at least in part on state data and imperative programming code. Then, in response to a change in one of the imperative programming code or the state data, some implementations may update the user interface data structure and render an updated interactive graphical user interface based on the updated user interface data structure.

Interface development and operation

A privacy control system is described herein for controlling dissemination of private information by a program. The privacy control system operates by performing static analysis to determine at least one flow within the program of private information, from a source to a sink. The static analysis is particularly configured to identify two types of flow, including: (a) an unvetted flow of untampered private information from the source to the sink; and (b) a flow of tampered private information from the source to the sink, whether vetted or unvetted. The privacy control system then prompts the user to provide a privacy control decision regarding the flow. The privacy control decision governs whether actual data or anonymized data is provided to the sink, or whether the program is terminated. A runtime system then runs the program in accordance with the privacy control decision.

Controlling the release of private information using static flow analysis

A tracing just-in-time (TJIT) compiler system is described for performing parallelization of code in a runtime phase in the execution of code. Upon detecting a hot loop during the execution of the code, the compiler system extracts trace information from sequentially recorded traces. In a first phase, the compiler system uses the trace information to identify at least one group of operation components that can be operated on in a parallel manner. In a second phase, the compiler system provides instructions which allocate the group of operation components to plural processing resources. A native code generator module carries out those instructions by recompiling native code that directs the operation of a native system to perform parallel processing. The compiler system terminates a group if it encounters program data in a loop iteration that is not consistent with previously encountered predicated information (upon which it records a new trace in a sequential manner).

Automatic parallelization in a tracing just-in-time compiler system

The description relates to media files and more particularly to media files that include a program and a human-understandable description of the program. One example can receive executable code. This example can determine a functionality provided by the executable code. The example can also create a media file that stores the executable code and presents the functionality in a human-understandable form.

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