Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Sergei Ivanov

J Kirk Haselden

John August Barrows

Chirag Deepakkumar Shah

Matthew E David

Mauricio Sanchez

Panos Costa Panay

Ales Holecek

James Kelsey Howey

Maxim Kudryavtsev

Mohammed Fadel Shatnawi

James Kirk Haselden

Mark J T Durley

Oleg Ivanov

Ali Akgun

Techniques for an ink experience with images are discussed herein. In various implementations, an image is displayed via an image management application for viewing and/or editing images. In conjunction with interaction scenarios provided via the application, an inking mode for adding inked annotations to the image is enabled. Input to apply one or more inked annotations to the image is obtained, such as via finger touches on a touchscreen, drawing with a stylus, camera-based gestures, or other natural input mechanisms. Responsive to obtaining the input, data blocks corresponding to the one or more inked annotations are appended to an image file as additional data blocks for the image.

Ink experience for images

An audio accessory having a locally stored and executed policy. The policy includes a rule related to audio output generation. The audio accessory can be a peripheral audio accessory, and the policy can be stored on the peripheral audio accessory so that the policy can be applied to communications from any source.

Audio accessory storing a policy for generating audio output

Aspects extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling performance of a requested user operation. It is determined if a requested user operation can access data on behalf of a user based on an obtained user context associated with the user. The user context identifies the location of an object representing a user relative to other objects within a hierarchical data structure. The context is used to derive a role for the user. A control expression is accessed. The control expression governs access of the requested user operation for the derived role. A set of permissions is formed for the user by evaluating the control expression using the user context and a data context for the data. The user's authorization to perform the requested user operation is determined from the set of permissions. The requested user operation is performed according to the determined user's authorization.

Data driven role based security

Data driven role based security is provided. At login, the system queries for a data context in connection with access to computing objects of a computing system. When a request for access to computing objects is received by the computing system, one or more control expressions specified for the computing object being accessed are evaluated. The evaluation of the control expressions may reference the user context or the data context previously established, and returns a set of effective permissions. Access to the computing object is then granted if the set of permissions includes an appropriate permission for the request for access.

The subject disclosure pertains broadly to parallelization of workflow loops. More specifically, loop containers and related elements are cloned several times to match a desired number of parallel iterations or threads. The cloned containers are communicatively coupled or connected to a single enumerator component and can interact therewith to facilitate acquisition of collection elements. This arrangement, among other things, ensures that the correct number of iterations are executed as if the loop was processed sequentially.

Parallel loops in a workflow

A system that provides a visual mechanism (e.g., user interface (UI)) by which a user can design a regular expression is provided. The graphical interactive mechanism enables a user to develop regular expressions without an understanding of the intricacies of the regular expression syntax. The UI can provide an interactive mechanism by which a user can graphically annotate (e.g., color, highlight) a regular expression thus, mapping the expression to a particular tabulated output. The novel UI can provide a particular kind of dialog layout with several controls and dynamically linked views, e.g., a data view, a regular expression view and a column view which can facilitate definition of the regular expression as well as creation of mappings to output columns (e.g., annotations).

Visual design of annotated regular expression

The subject disclosure pertains to data parsing with patterns or regular expressions. A mechanism is provided for annotating a regular expression with additional information regarding data extraction such as output fields and mapping of the output fields to sub-sections of matched data. A parser can utilize the annotation information to facilitate mapping and transfer of at least a portion of pattern matched data from a source to a destination. The disclosed systems and methods thus enable data to be exacted while it is being matched.

Data parsing with annotated patterns

When a component is to be loaded or executed, the version of the component to be loaded may be compared with available versions of the component. If an upgraded version of the component is available, the upgraded version of the component may be enabled to dynamically and deterministically update itself. The component may be an object in an object model. The upgraded version of the component may update itself by calling an update method. The component may be upgraded with minimum user intervention, dynamically as the object is loaded.

Automatic upgrade of pluggable components

A linguistic system and method of representing a data flow diagram is provided. Given the capabilities of a conventional data flow graph, and given the types of nodes that can exist in the graph, the subject innovation employs a specific method to create a language capable of describing the data flow graph. The resulting language can be used in application program interfaces (APIs), user interfaces (UIs) and the like to allow users to quickly enter definitions of data flow graphs as they are using various software systems, such as spreadsheet applications, word processing applications, presentation applications, business systems, etc. The language can identify complex data flows that include multiple sources, chained transformation components and/or multiple destinations.

Linguistic structure for data flow diagrams

A system and method for managing log entries associated with execution events in an application. The system and method may include a log provider wrapper for receiving log entries associated with the event and log providers for receiving all or part of the information associated with a log entry. The log provider wrapper, through communication with a logging configuration, may filter the log entry, segment information contained in the log entry, format the information, and deliver the information to one or more log providers. The log providers may send the information to a respective destination medium.

Log management system and method

The subject invention pertains to a systems and methods of restarting programs upon failure. In particular, the systems and methods provide for generation of a checkpoint component including program execution status or completion data as well as state. This checkpoint component can then be employed by an execution engine to restart the program at a point in time captured by the checkpoint component. According to one specific aspect of the invention, these systems and methods can be applied to a workflow system to facilitate restarting a workflow package or process described thereby.

Checkpoint restart system and method

Systems, methods, and computer readable media for designing and executing workflows can be equipped with a means for manipulation of workflow steps by grouping them, such as by placing them in containers. A container can be associated with a database transaction. In some embodiments, a container property can be set to indicate whether the container must participate, may participate, or may not participate in a database transaction. Further, containers may be placed in parent containers, and optionally inherit the transaction property of the parent.

Systems and methods for controlling transaction participation for groups of steps in a workflow

A persisted object model is loaded from an object model document comprising a compiled executable file having an image source, a security source, and a loader. The loader is instantiated, and instantiates the object model from the image source and a security agent from the security source to control access to the instantiated object model. The loader returns to a commander a first reference to the instantiated security agent, whereby the commander in employing the first reference accesses the security agent rather than the instantiated object model. A commander issues a command to the instantiated object model by way of the first reference to the security agent, and the security agent receives and reviews same according to pre-defined rules to determine whether the object model should in fact receive the command. If so, the security agent forwards the command to the object model.

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Sergei Ivanov