Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Shabbir A Shahpurwala

Jae Pum Park

Benjamin N Truelove

Baskaran Dharmarajan

Chunkit Jacky Chan

Jeffrey Earl Steinbok

Daniel W Crevier

Jonathan Alexander Bockelman

Mark A Nikiel

David Citron

Joseph Andrew Bono

Gyorgy K Schadt

Amy Jennifer Beauford

Brian M Perrin

Eileen S Hash

Derek Kiwamu Tsuchida

Wei-Chung Jones Wang

Michael F Matsel

Joel Scaria

Ignatius Setiadi

Archana Manoj Gadkari

William Mountain Lewis

Amar Shroff

Shardul Vikram

Rebecca L Pezely

Sergio Ligregni

Chun-Kit J Chan

Kyle Richey

Kevin N Kim

Parker Shelton

Systems and methods for providing user's access to a particular version of an electronic resource (e.g., a website, web resource or the like) where versions of such electronic resources are stored across a set of servers are disclosed. In one embodiment, user's requests may be received&#x2014;either requesting a particular version or as an unversioned request. A version control module (for example, a load balancer) may receive these requests and assign the user's request to a first server according to different metrics, e.g., regarding version control rules and/or effective load balancing considerations. If the initial server assigned is not able to handle the user's request, the user's request may be proxied to another server, according to different metrics. If there is no server that may handle the user's request (after a certain number of proxied requests), the request may be returned to the user as not handled.

Dynamically affinitizing users to a version of a website

Techniques are described to provide revocable object access. In an implementation, a user may provide content and an object (e.g., a picture) to be published with the content. The object is uploaded to a storage location, and a uniform resource locator (URL) that includes a token is generated for the object. The token is registered in an access control list (ACL), and token permission settings in the ACL are utilized to control access to the object. The URL may be embedded in the content. When a viewer requests the content, the object may be retrieved from the storage location using the URL. The user may revoke access to the object by changing the token permission settings in the ACL.

Revocable object access

An operating system to componentize file sharing is described, in which a file transport send object is executable on the operating system to designate a shared file for sharing, and in which a notification send object is executable on the operating system to notify of the shared file. An operating system to componentize file sharing is described, in which a file transport receive object is executable on the operating system to receive a shared file, and in which a notification receive object that is executable on the operating system to notify of the shared file.

Component based infrastructure for sharing files

A method and system to manage rendering of multimedia content are provided. A theme specifies a collection of layouts defining multimedia content placement. The multimedia content is processed to extract one or more characteristics. The layouts are selected and populated with multimedia content based on the one or more characteristics associated with the multimedia content. The multimedia content is rendered by transitioning through the selected layouts.

Combining and displaying multimedia content

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Shabbir A Shahpurwala