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Prasad Thiruveedu

Eric P Traut

Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie

Arvind Muthukrishnan

Shivaram Prabhakar

Manoj Kumar Jain

Archana Saseetharan

Rahul Newaskar

Ashish Mehta

Kruthika Ponnusamy

Shri Vidhya Alagesan

Vrijesh Kothari

Samarth Gupta

Krishan Kumar Attre

Sourabh Kukreja

Praveen Vijayaraghavan

Matthew Kyle Philpott

Ahmed Bisht

Hari Krishna Pammi

Rama Krishna Prasad Satya Prakash

Yogesh K Sharma

A server allows pairing of a computing device with a companion computing device so that they may automatically connect to one another in the future. Pairing is accomplished by responding to a user request to pair a particular companion device by identifying computing devices associated with a particular user account, and directing those devices to monitor whether they are in range of a proximity signal (such as a BLUETOOTH&#xae; signal). A user interface on the companion device displays a list of devices specific to the user that are in proximity to the companion computing device, so that the user can choose a device to pair with the companion computing device.

Proximity-based pairing and operation of user-specific companion devices

Techniques for casting electronic content, including identifying, at a first time, a first action by a user of a presenter device affecting rendering of a content item casted to a target device; determining that the presenter device is in a first casting mode at the first time; based on the presenter device being in the first casting mode at the first time, changing a rendering of the content item by the target device by causing the first action to be reported in real-time to the target device; identifying, at a second time, a second action by the user that affects a rendering of the content item; determining that the presenter device is in a second casting mode at the second time; and determining that the second action will not be reported to the target device based on the presenter device being in the second casting mode at the second time.

Selective electronic content casting

Systems, methods, and computer program products are described that provide a user interface to a user of a first operating system to enable the user to interact with a second operating system executing in a virtual machine. If the first and second operating systems are in communication in accordance with an operating system remote terminal (OSRT) protocol, such as Remote Desktop Protocol, a first user interface is provided as the user interface. If the first and second operating systems are not in communication in accordance with the OSRT protocol, a second user interface is provided as the user interface.

User interface for interaction with virtual machine

Techniques involving replication of virtual machines of virtual machines in a clustered environment are described. One representative technique includes receiving a replication request to replicate a primary virtual machine. A clustering broker is configured to act on the replication request on behalf of a cluster of recovery nodes, by at least placing a replicated virtual machine corresponding to the source virtual machine on a recovery node and facilitate tracking the migration of the replicated virtual machine within the cluster. The clustering broker returns an address of the recovery node that has been placed or found through tracking for the particular virtual machine.

Managing recovery virtual machines in clustered environment

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