Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Peng Chen

Ting Sun

Jie Zhang

Jianyong Wang

Yongqiang Xiong

Guo Chen

Ye Yu

Ran Shu

Chengcheng Liu

Yueyang Chen

Shuo Wang

Yang Tian

Wei Wang

Zhixiong Niu

Lei Qu

Yuwei Cao

Zeyu Shang

In accordance with implementations of the subject matter described herein, there is provided a solution for streaming communication between devices. In this solution, a memory of a first device comprising a ring buffer is allocated to be dedicated for storing a data stream of an application to be transmitted to a second electronic device. The application of the first device writes data to be transmitted into the ring buffer, to form a portion of the first data stream, and a write pointer of the ring buffer is thus updated. A portion of data is read based on a source memory address from the ring buffer via the interface device. The interface device also transmits the data portion to a second device. The read data portion is stored in a dedicated ring buffer of the memory. In accordance with the solution, an efficient streaming communication interface is provided between devices.

Streaming communication between devices

The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for providing responses in an event-related session. The event is associated with a predefined domain, and the session comprises an electronic conversational agent and at least one participant. At least one message from the at least one participant may be detected. A set of candidate responses may be retrieved, from an index set being based on the domain, according to the at least one message. The set of candidate responses may be optimized through filtering the set of candidate responses according to predetermined criteria. A response to the at least one message may be selected from the filtered set of candidate responses. The selected response may be provided in the session.

Providing responses in an event-related session

The present disclosure provides a technical solution related to intelligent knowledge learning and question-answering. The technical solution involves extracting knowledge from corpus and providing a user with a question-answering service based on the extracted knowledge.

Intelligent knowledge-learning and question-answering

The present disclosure provides a technical solution related to processing images in image transformation by fusion. More particularly, an image of an object of an original picture may be transferred onto an image of a corresponding object in a template picture by fusion. During the transformation by fusion, the processing of fusion may be done on each pixel by using a pixel weight graph, so that the image of the object in the original picture may be better integrated into the template picture with the features of the object in the original picture maintained well in the picture processed by fusion.

Image transformation by fusion

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