Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Google Inc.

Robert F Day

Timothy P McKee

David R Johnson

Stephan Hoefnagels

Christopher S Davis

Isaac A Sheldon

Sarah E Schrock

Darren B Remington

Jan Thomas Miksovsky

Joerg Heilig

John M Tippett

John W Merrill

David E McCauley, Iii

Scott R Ludwig

Brian T Fleming

Charles Cummins

Jenny T Lam

Paul Alexander Gusmorino, Iii

Joseph H Matthews, Iii

David George De Vorchik

Jonathan David Perlow

Rama Ranganath

Colin Ray Anthony

Tyler Kien Beam

Jon Robert Berry

Eric R Flo

Richard S Turner, Jr

John Lawrence Miller

John W L Merrill

Raymond J Chen

Stephen Proteau

Parag Samdadiya

Timothy David Corrie, Jr

Adam Ross Barker

Russell P Blake

Sivaramakichenane Somasegar

Kenneth S Gregg

Stephan Hoefnageis

Venkata Rama P Tammana

Keith H Coleman

A selected target location is used as a basis for selecting an alternate target location for distribution of content. The alternate target location is selected based on historical information about user activity involving the selected target location and may include an analysis of time records associated with locations included in the historical data.

Identifying alternate content distribution locations

A system, method, and computer-accessible medium for protecting user choice settings are provided. The system and method provide an application programming interface that uses a security subsystem to unlock, write, and relock the user choice settings to insure that the user's choices are enforced and respected by the applications that attempt to change them in a manner that is verifiable and transparent to the user. The user is notified whenever a change to their user choice settings is made.

Method and system for protecting user choices

A file operations engine is provided that manages many user interactions with their files via a computer system. The operation engine may provide a user with the option to keep both files that have a file name conflict. It may further permit the user to rename a file involved with a file name conflict. The operations engine may also automatically rename one of the files of a file name conflict by appending a character to a root of the filename. The character may include the lowest integer available for the root in a destination for the files. The operations engine may provide the option to keep both files as part of a pre-calculation of potential errors for a requested operation. The operations engine may place file name conflicts in an error queue and permit the user to select an option to keep both files after the conflict is encountered.

File handling for naming conflicts

Participants in a chat session can control the archiving of chat messages in the chat session. Participants in a chat session send and receive a first set of chat messages, which are archived. A command to deactivate archiving is made by one of the participants. Messages in the chat session that are sent and received subsequent to the command to deactivate archiving are not archived. Archiving may be reactivated and messages subsequent to the command to reactivate archiving are archived.

Integrated email and chat archiving with fine grained user control for chat archiving

A reservation system can identify available placements based on targeting criteria provided by advertisers and placement inventory data provided by publishers. The reservation system can receive reservation data for the available placements from the publishers and provide the reservation data with the available placements to the advertisers. The available placements and can be ranked and presented to the advertisers based on a first precision with which the placement can satisfy the advertiser's targeting criteria. A second precision can be determined for each placement that has enabled targeting rules. In turn, the reservation system can rank and present the placements based on the first and second precisions.

Targeting based placement identification

A method and system are provided for displaying icons in accordance with user preferences. The method includes providing a user with a size selection mechanism for selecting an icon size from a range of sizes. The method additionally includes searching a set of stored resources related to the underlying file and generating the icon in the selected size based upon the stored resources. The method may additionally include selecting an icon type including one of an image icon, a detail icon and a generic icon based on at least one of the user's size selection and the represented file. Furthermore, the icon display system of the invention positions labels and overlays in the vicinity of the icon based upon the selected size of the icon.

Scaling icons for representing files

File transfer error handling

A file operations engine is provided that manages many user interactions with their files via a computer system. The operation engine may place certain classes of errors in an error queue while performing a requested operation without waiting for a user to satisfy the errors prior to continuing with the operation. In addition, the operations engine may pre-calculate potential errors for a requested operation prior to performing the operation. Dialogs may be provided to a user to satisfy errors listed in an error queue and/or identified while pre-calculating potential errors. Methods are provided for handling file operations errors and for interacting with a user interface for file operations. Computer-executable instructions for implementing the disclosed methods are stored on computer-readable media.

Operations engine error handling

A file operations engine and other programming mechanisms are provided for handling file operations errors related to permissions. A file operations engine according to an embodiment of the invention manages many user interactions with their files via a computer system including options for taking a permission for a resource, such as a file, a folder or other object. The operations engine may enable another person to provide a user with a necessary permission for a resource. The operations engine or other programming mechanisms can provide dialogs and user interface mechanisms for handling permissions errors.

Resource handling for taking permissions

Provided is a method where a background ARGB must not be taken into consideration before a foreground ARGB including TrueType fonts is combined therewith to create a composite image for display on a display device. A common alpha value is made use of in the process of combining the foreground ARGB with the background ARGB to create the composite image.

Encoding ClearType text for use on alpha blended textures

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Bellevue, WA, United States of America

Robert F Day