Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Google Inc.

Richard M Byers

Jesse Daniel Kaplan

Shawn Farkas

Ryan A Byington

Raja Krishnaswamy

Robert John Kroeger

Ladislav Prosek

Jonathan Foster Kliegman

Embodiments are directed to dynamically adapting metadata for use with a native data encoding and to efficiently modifying object model type references. In one scenario, a computer system instantiates a metadata reader over an object model description to access various portions of metadata in the object model description. The metadata reader is configured to read native metadata, where native metadata is metadata represented in an encoding that is expected by the metadata reader. The metadata reader determines that the accessed metadata is encoded in a non-native encoding and then determines which metadata modifications are to be performed to transform the non-native encoding into a native encoding. The computer system then dynamically adapts the metadata of the object model from a non-native encoding to a native encoding according to the determined modifications. As such, the object model is readable by a native runtime.

Efficiently providing multiple metadata representations of the same type

Embodiments are directed to providing a simulation of a type-level construct on an interface instance and to maintaining a token-based event handling system. In one scenario, a computer system instantiates an interface instance that includes an instance object and multiple instance members. The computer system also instantiates a separate typed object which is configured to maintain one or more simulated type-level parameterized constructors. The computer system then associates the instantiated interface instance with the separate typed object. The typed object routes method invocations from the interface instance to various simulated type-level parameterized constructors and static members of the type.

Simulation of static members and parameterized constructors on an interface-based API

A computer-implemented method, a system and a computer-readable medium provide for receiving a first pattern of sensor inputs that are associated with a user of a mobile device. Subsequently, this pattern can be replicated, and based on the input, used to perform one or more of tasks such as identifying the user, unlocking the device, turning the device on, and authenticating the user.

Combining wake-up and unlock into a single gesture

Methods and systems for web page restoration are provided. A method for restoring web pages includes identifying a root node of a node graph, wherein each node of the node graph represents an object of a plurality of objects that form a last state of a web page, including DOM objects. The method also includes traversing the node graph to a next frontier node and determining an object identifier of the next frontier node. The method further includes storing the object identifier and associated properties into a queue of objects when the object identifier of the next frontier node is not found in the queue of objects. The queue of objects may be used to restore objects with object properties having values according to the last state of the web page. Scripting language objects may also be stored for later restoration.

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