Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ravi Rao

Todd R Manion

David G Thaler

Sandeep Singhal

Pascal Francis Menezes

Rohit Gupta

Upshur Parks

Marco Piumatti

Tomer Weisberg

William Michael Zintel

Shyamalan Pather

Jeremy Lee Dewey

Daniel R Weisman

Mason K Bendixen

Christopher M Rude

R Scott Briggs

Andrew J Ritz

Ashish Gupta

Khaja Ehteshamuddin Ahmed

Scott A Senkeresty

Padmini Chandrasekhar Iyer

Eliot John Flannery

Anirudh Anirudh

Upshur Warren Parks, Iii

Alexander Corradini

Michael Shappell

Kevin R Tao

Andre R Classen

Suhail Khalid

Michael A Ziller

Amer A Hassan

Christian F Huitema

Cesare John Saretto

Billy R Anders, Jr

John S Holmes

Yatharth Gupta

Noah Horton

Gianluigi Nusca

Radu Simionescu

Nilesh R Shah

Scott A Plant

Gurunathan Kumaraguru

Dan Teodosiu

Aaron Wesley Cunningham

John L Miller

Khawar Zuberi

Igor A Kostic

Nir Ben-Zvi

Ryan Yonghee Kim

John R Selbie

Brian R Lieuallen

Alan Thomas Gavin Jowett

Carmen Zlateff

Kushal Suresh Narkhede

Tyler M Barton

Gregory M Cusanza

Dean A Wells

See-Mong Tan

Upshur W Parks

A mobile computing device that supports cost-aware application components for operation over a metered network. A current basis for computing usage charges over one or more networks may be made available to the cost-aware application components through an application programming interface supported by an operating system service. That service may receive a policy for charging for data usage over a network and may also obtain information defining data usage for the mobile computing device. Based on this information, the service may determine a current basis for charging for data usage. With this information, the application component can determine a manner for executing network operations that involve data transmission over the network, such as deferring the operation or selecting an alternative network.

Operating system supporting cost aware applications

Embodiments relate to a host encrypting network communications of virtual machines (VMs) in ways that minimize exposure of the network communications in cleartext form. The host captures and registers a measure of a secure state of the host. The measure is registered with a guardian service communicable via a network. The guardian service also securely stores keys of the VMs. Each VM's key is associated with authorization information indicating which machines are authorized to obtain the corresponding VM's key. The host obtains access to a VM's key based on a confirmation that its state matches the registered measured state and based on the authorization information of the VM indicating that the host is authorized to access the key. The VM's key is then used to transparently encrypt/decrypt network communications of the VM as they pass through a virtualization layer on the host that executes the VMs.

Shielded networks for virtual machines

Network communication and cost awareness techniques are described. In one or more implementations, functionality is exposed through one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) that is accessible to a plurality of applications of the computing device to perform network communication. Data is returned to one or more of the plurality of applications regarding a cost network used to perform the network communication.

Network communication and cost awareness

A dock for interacting with a computing device. The computing device configures itself for operations based on its context, which may be determined form the dock by reading a value from a tag on the dock. The computing device may use low power transmissions such that receiving a value from the tag provides an indication of proximity to the dock. The value read provides an indication of a desired operation, and, in response to reading a value of the tag, the computing device may launch an application, pair with devices in the vicinity of the dock, or take other actions that configure the computing device. A universal dock, usable with computing devices of a plurality of form factors, may be implemented by providing an array of tags and, in some cases, a non-contact power supply.

Universal dock for context sensitive computing device

The described method and system enables a client at a branch office to retrieve data from a local hosted cache instead of an application server over a WAN to improve latency and reduce overall WAN traffic. A server at the data center may be adapted to provide either a list of hashes or the requested data based on whether a hosted cache system is enabled. A hosted cache at the client side may provide the data to the client based on the hashes. The hashes may be generated to provide a fingerprint of the data which may be used to index the data in an efficient manner.

Method and system of using a local hosted cache and cryptographic hash functions to reduce network traffic

Storage and communication de-duplication are described. In one or more implementations, a system comprises one or more modules that are implemented at least partially in hardware, the one or more modules configured to utilize one or more algorithms to calculate hashes of chunks of data, the hashes used to replace the chunks in the data for storage locally in the system as well as to communicate the hashes in response to a request received via a network for the data to avoid communicating at least one of the chunks of the data via the network.

Storage and communication de-duplication

Content retrieval techniques are described. In an implementation, a determination is made as to whether a client is permitted to receive content requested by the client. When the client is permitted to receive the content, a communication is formed to be communicated via a wide area network that includes a hash list having a hash of each of a plurality of blocks of the content, each hash being configured to enable the client to locate a corresponding one of the blocks of the content via a local area network.

Content retrieval

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