Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Robert A Kleewein

Daniel M Sangster

Nino Aldrin L Sarmiento

William T Flora

David R Fulmer

Christian R Lehew

Ian Vaughan Hollier

Michelle Verena Niethammer

Michael L Waterston

A method for calculating an extended hamming checksum and applying the extended hamming checksum to a data packet, the method comprising forming a packet extended hamming checksum mask, calculating a hamming code, calculating an extended hamming checksum using the packet extended hamming checksum mask and the hamming code, and inserting the extended hamming checksum into the data packet.

Encoding and application of extended hamming checksum

A signal correcting and compensating system including a signal transceiver, a personal computer, a signal database, and a signal correction component. A signal sent by a remote control may be subjected to a distortion causing nuisance before it is received by a transceiver, possibly preventing the signal from being identified. A signal correction component may correct and/or compensate for errors by evaluating the signal and determining a margin of error for identifying information within the signal.

Compensating for errors received in a signal

A method and system via which a client application hosting a browser notifies a server of its existence, whereby the server provides enhanced operating functionality, such as state synchronization, to the client. Instead of requesting a server's normally-accessible website, a client application provides a URL to a hosted browser to access a hidden web page. The hidden web page returns awareness information (e.g., a 'cookie') identifying the client as an enhanced client, and also automatically forwards the client to the server's normally-accessible website. Based on the awareness data, the server distinguishes enhanced clients from ordinary clients, and modifies its behavior accordingly. For example, the server and client application may communicate in the background, such as to synchronize the client application's data with server state information. To synchronize, the server data may be written into a client storage mechanism, or the server data may be passed in a page.

Automatic and transparent synchronization of server-side state information with a client application

A method and system are provided for displaying animations of menus solely in response to a cursor pointing in proximity to a menu marker that is displayed on a video display. Multiple menu markers may be displayed on the video display and each menu marker may be associated with a different menu. The animation may produce the visual effect of the menu sliding out of an associated menu marker. A dynamic control mechanism may be used to control the performance of the animation of the menu to account for different platforms and different processing states. In addition, audio output may accompany the animation of the menu.

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Robert A Kleewein