Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Pengxiang Zhao

Robert Zhu

Ying Chin

Dejun Zhang

Bin Wang

Satyendra Bahadur

Jason Joseph Weber

Matthew Ryan Miller

Brian E Manthos

Tobin R Titus

John Hazen

Daniel Libby

Jordan Thomas Rabet

Colin Pacitti

Lei Zhang

Wei Huang

Weiyou Cui

Daryl A Welsh

Carlos Picoto

Zach Zhang

Xuejun Chen

Qipeng Wu

Sailesh Baidya

Frank Zheng

Matthew Miller

Ying N Chin

Robert Yu Zhu

A loose coupling between Internet of Things ('IoT') devices and environmental sensors is generated. Once the loose coupling has been generated, conditions in a physical environment can be managed utilizing the loosely coupled devices. For example, a hybrid machine learning/expert system can be utilized to activate the IoT devices in an environment to achieve a desired condition in an optimized manner.

Management and operation of loosely coupled internet of things devices

Techniques for mitigating timing attacks via dynamically triggered time dilation are provided. According to one set of embodiments, a computer system can track a count of application programming interface (API) calls or callbacks made by a program within each of a series of time buckets. The computer system can further determine that the count exceeds a threshold count for a predefined consecutive number of time buckets. Upon making this determination, the computer system can trigger time dilation with respect to the program, where the time dilation causes the program to observe a dilated view of time relative to real time.

Mitigating timing attacks via dynamically triggered time dilation

Techniques for mitigating timing attacks via dynamically scaled time dilation are provided. According to one set of embodiments, a computer system can enable time dilation with respect to a program, where the time dilation causes the program to observe a dilated view of time relative to real time. Then, while the time dilation is enabled, the computer system can track a count of application programming interface (API) calls or callbacks made by a program within each of a series of time buckets and, based on counts tracked for a range of recent time buckets, scale up or scale down a degree of the time dilation.

Mitigating timing attacks via dynamically scaled time dilation

A communications link between a computing device and an external device is monitored. A driver for the communications link is executed on the computing device. The driver is configured to monitor data traffic over the communications link. Data indicative of the monitored data traffic is received from the driver. The data is sent to an analysis function configured to identify a condition of the communications link based on accumulated data indicative of the data traffic. Data indicative of an identified condition of the communications link is received from the analytics function. An indication of the identified condition is rendered on a display device of the computing device.

Monitoring peripheral transactions

The disclosed technology adjusts hardware settings to map preferences consistently of a user experience across multiple hardware devices, despite there being different hardware capabilities and performance parameters among the different devices. A hardware settings translation engine receives a reference hardware setting of a reference computing device, a set of reference hardware performance parameter values, and a set of target hardware performance parameter values. The hardware settings translation engine then maps the set of target hardware performance parameter values to the set of reference hardware performance parameter values to yield a hardware adjustment map. The hardware settings translation engine determines the target hardware setting based on the reference hardware adjustment map and the reference hardware setting. The hardware settings translation engine sets the target hardware to the target hardware setting.

Computing device resource management

An apparatus may be manipulated using non-touch or hover techniques. Hover techniques may be associated with zooming, virtual feedback, authentication, and other operations. For example, a mobile device may receive data indicative of a hover gesture. The hover gesture may be sensed proximate to a rear of the mobile device. The level of zoom of a rendered image may be altered based on the hover gesture.

Device manipulation using hover

A facility for responding to the crash of a computing system subsystem is described. The facility detects a crash of the subsystem. In response to this detecting, the facility provides diagnostic information representing state of the peripheral subsystem to a crash analysis service, and restarts the subsystem without restarting the computing system.

Handling crashes of a device's peripheral subsystems

Examples for an intelligent watchdog timer for a computing device are described herein. The watchdog timer operates a watchdog counter that repetitively counts a watchdog count interval from an initial value to a final value. The watchdog counter is continually reset if the device is functioning properly. If the watchdog timer is allowed to reach a final count value, a processor reset is initiated. Several components operate to detect the current mode of operation of the processor or an operating system, and predict, in part based on user context, when different power states may occur. The components also forecast when the watchdog timer is scheduled to reach the final count value. Based on the forecasts of when the watchdog timer will reach the final count value and the predictions of future power states of the processor or operating system, the watchdog counter is selectively disabled or reset.

High availability and energy-efficient watchdog timer

Embodiments are disclosed that relate to multi boot mobile phone devices. In one example, a mobile phone device comprises one or more non-volatile storage devices including an empty partition, a blob partition storing two or more operating systems in a compressed format, a boot selection module configured to recognize user selection of at least one of the two or more operating systems, and a boot allocation module configured to, responsive to user selection of at least one of the two or more operating systems, split the empty partition into a different operating system partition for each selected operating system, decompress each selected operating system, and store each decompressed operating system on its respective operating system partition.

Dynamic partition dual boot mobile phone device

A crash dump system in a device includes firmware that determines when an atypical reboot of the device is about to occur and both sets a flag indicating there was an atypical reboot and stores in nonvolatile memory crash dump data based on the type of event that caused the atypical reboot. The crash dump data includes a reboot code indicating the type of event that was detected. When the device is subsequently restarted due to the reboot, the operating system detects that the flag was set, and in response to the flag being set collects and analyzes the crash dump data from the reserved memory. Crash analysis data is generated based on this analysis and sent is to a remote service for possible further action (e.g., analysis, notification of a developer, and so forth).

Atypical reboot data collection and analysis

Example apparatus and methods concern a first device (e.g., phone) having a first set of input or output capabilities interacting with a second device(s) (e.g., tablet) having a second set of input or output capabilities. The first device may detect the second device and establish a communication link with the second device. The first device may receive inputs presented at the second device and provide outputs to be presented by the second device. In response to an action (e.g., touch, gesture) on the second device, an application running on the first device may receive an input, which may in turn determine an output that is provided to the second device. The first device may use the second device to provide an input/output experience that is superior to what the first device could provide with its own built-in input/output components. The combination saves energy and reduces computing complexity.

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Pengxiang Zhao