Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Somanath Krishnaswamy

Robert Novitskey

Ryan Edward Gregg

Joshua Adam Meisels

Justin B Mahood

Bruce D Wiedemann

Jason T Creighton

Marius Cristian Constantin

Jeremy Littel

Jeffrey J Wall

Saurabh Kumar

Shri Vidhya Alagesan

Kent C Mai

Ping Zhang

Joyce Kuo

Ian S Petersen

Vallabh Patade

Marius C Constantin

Systems and methods for controlling an intentional crash of a software application. One system includes a computing device including an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive a crash setting for the software application from a configuration server. The crash setting has a first value or a second value. The electronic processor is also configured to detect an unexpected use of the software application during execution. The electronic processor is configured to, in response to detecting the unexpected use and the crash setting having the first value, intentionally crash the software application causing a generation of a crash report describing a state of the software application when the unexpected use occurred. The electronic processor is configured to, in response detecting the unexpected use and the crash setting having the second value, not intentionally crash the software application.

Conditionally crashing software applications to track software use

An electronic messaging client caches copies of a subset of electronic messages available in a remote store in a local store of a user device. When the user device is in an online state, the client provides for the blended presentation of electronic messages such that a user can concurrently view information about the electronic messages that have been cached in the local store as well as information about electronic messages that are stored only in the remote store. The client also presents a blended state associated with a container of electronic messages to a user of a user device and enables a user to execute a search of cached electronic messages stored in a local store as well as of electronic messages stored in the remote store.

System and method for blended presentation of locally and remotely stored electronic messages

Growing community of inventors

Redmond, WA, United States of America

Somanath Krishnaswamy