Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sharon Drasnin

Summer L Schneider

Ronald Otto Radko

David R Perek

Hang Li

Ralf Groene

Hua Wang

Daniel J Polivy

Timothy Carlyle Shaw

Kabir Siddiqui

Paul Henry Dietz

Karsten Aagaard

Anthony Reed

Thomas Charles Oliver

Eric Joseph Wahl

Christopher Harry Stoumbos

Yadhu Nandh Gopalan

Jim Tom Belesiu

Panos Costa Panay

James Alec Ishihara

Charbel Khawand

Todd David Pleake

Nathan C Sherman

Matthew David Mickelson

David Michael Lane

Joel Lawrence Pelley

Rob Huala

Christopher Andrew Whitman

Richard Dennis Beckert

David Carter Vandervoort

Michael D Malueg

Robert D Young

Gene Robert Obie

James Charles Marshall

Moshe Randall Lutz

Jason Ryan Farmer

Jeffrey J Johnson

Steve Seixeiro

Darryl I Jensen

Camilo Leon

Harold F Mantooth

Hiroo Umeno

Chun Beng Goh

Michael A Schwager

Andrew N Cady

James H Wise

Mark J Seilstad

DaiQian Huang

Scott A Fudally

Dennis J Mathias

Stephan Alexander Cummings

Tejas Mistry

Michael D McCormack

John E Inman

Hakon Strande

Van Winston Oler

Matthew G Pedersen

Murali Ravirala

David Neff

Jose R Sousa

Richard Peter Spooner

Vassili I Nikolaev

Edward J Lansinger

Edward C Iii Giaimo

Robyn Rebecca Reed Mclaughlin

Rajesh Manohar Dighde

Edward C Giaimo Iii

David Otto Iii Whitt

Bernard Maurice Schultz

Anthony Christian Reed

Jay Scott Kassels

Shane Aaron Sykes

Scott K Gibson

Iii David Otto Whitt

Darryl L Jensen

Iii Edward C Giaimo

Davie M Lane

Darryl Jensen

Mark John Seilstad

Jamesh Wise

Scott Mitchel Mail

Matthew G Pederson

An accessory device architecture is described. In one or more implementations, data is received from an accessory device at an integrated circuit of a computing device, the data usable to enumerate functionality of the accessory device for operation as part of a computing device that includes the integrated circuit. The data is passed by the integrated circuit to an operating system executed on processor of the computing device to enumerate the functionality of the accessory device as part of the integrated circuit.

System and method for accessory device architecture that passes via intermediate processor a descriptor when processing in a low power state

User experience adaptation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a connection portion configured to be removably physically and communicatively with a computing device, a housing physically connected to the connection portion and providing an outer surface having one or more characteristics that are viewable by a user, and memory disposed within the housing and configured to communicate data to the computing device via the connection portion, the data usable by the computing device to dynamically adapt a user interface displayable by a display device of the computing device to mimic the one or more physical characteristics of the housing.

User experience adaptation

An electronic device provides a capability of distinguishing between human tissue and a non-human object in proximity of a transmission source. In this manner, transmission power adjustments to the transmission source can be made selectively, depending on whether human tissue or a non-human object is detected in the proximity of the RF transmitter. Distinguishing between human tissue and other non-human-tissue objects in proximity of the transmission source provides for selective control of SAR adjustments. Accordingly, an electronic device can avoid certain communication performance reductions introduced by decreases in transmission power effected to comply with SAR standards by reducing transmission power when human tissue is detected in the proximity but not reducing transmission power when a non-human object (but no human tissue) is detected in the proximity.

Selective specific absorption rate adjustment

Sensor fusion algorithm techniques are described. In one or more embodiments, behaviors of a host device and accessory devices are controlled based upon an orientation of the host device and accessory devices, relative to one another. A combined spatial position and/or orientation for the host device may be obtained based on raw measurements that are obtained from at least two different types of sensors. In addition, a spatial position and/or orientation for an accessory device is ascertained using one or more sensors of the accessory device. An orientation (or position) of the accessory device relative to the host computing device may then be computed based on the combined spatial position/orientation for the host computing device and the ascertained spatial position/orientation for the accessory device. The relative orientation that is computed may then be used in various ways to control behaviors of the host computing device and/or accessory device.

Computing device and an apparatus having sensors configured for measuring spatial information indicative of a position of the computing devices

An accessory device architecture is described. In one or more implementations, data is received from an accessory device at an intermediate processor of a computing device, the data usable to enumerate functionality of the accessory device for operation as part of a computing device that includes the intermediate processor. The data is passed by the intermediate processor to an operating system executed on processor of the computing device to enumerate the functionality of the accessory device as part of the intermediate processor.

System and method for accessory device architecture that passes human interface device (HID) data via intermediate processor

Force concentrator techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a pressure sensitive key includes a sensor substrate having a plurality of conductors, a flexible contact layer spaced apart from the sensor substrate and configured to flex to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input; and a force concentrator layer disposed proximal to the flexible contact layer on a side opposite the sensor substrate. The force concentrator layer has a pad disposed thereon that is configured to cause pressure applied to the force concentrator layer to be channeled through the pad to cause the flexible contact layer to contact the sensor substrate to initiate the input.

Force concentrator

Device enumeration support techniques are described for busses that do not natively support enumeration. In one or more embodiments, an intermediate controller of a computing device is configured to interconnect and manage various hardware devices associated with the computing device. The intermediate controller may detect connection and disconnection of hardware devices in association with one or more communication busses employed by the computing device. In response to such detection, the intermediate controller may send appropriate notifications to an operating system to alert the operating system when hardware devices come and go. This enables the operating system to enumerate and denumerate hardware devices within a device configuration and power management system implemented by the operating system that facilitates interaction with the hardware devices through corresponding representations.

Device enumeration support method for computing devices that does not natively support device enumeration

Techniques for mobile device power state are described. In one or more implementations, a mobile device includes a computing device that is flexibly coupled to an input device via a flexible hinge. Accordingly, the mobile device can operate in a variety of different power states based on a positional orientation of the computing device to an associated input device. In one or more implementations, an application that resides on a computing device can operate in different application states based on a positional orientation of the computing device to an associated input device. In one or more implementations, techniques discussed herein can differentiate between vibrations caused by touch input to a touch functionality, and other types of vibrations. Based on this differentiation, techniques can determine whether to transition between device power states.

Mobile device power state

Accessory device architecture

Computer device and an apparatus having sensors configured for measuring spatial information indicative of a position of the computing devices

Sensor fusion algorithm

In one aspect, the present disclosure describes a process for maintaining file allocation tables (FATs) for a volume of storage medium. The process includes triggering, by a write operation, modification of data in an existing sector of a data file by writing of data to a new sector of the storage medium. The process also includes writing revised used/unused sector information into one FAT and setting a variable indicative of a number of FATs (NOF) to a first value. The process additionally includes copying the one FAT to another FAT and re-setting the variable to a second value.

Transaction-safe FAT files system

Methods and systems for operating computing devices are described. In one embodiment, a small amount of static RAM (SRAM) is incorporated into an automotive computing device. The SRAM is battery-backed to provide a non-volatile memory space in which critical data, e.g. the object store, can be maintained in the event of a power loss.

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