Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Sriram Subramanian

Oliver H Foehr

Jerry Jay Dunietz

Adam M Smith

David Ornstein

Daniel Emerson

Wei Zhu

Leonardo Esteban Blanco

Andrey Shur

Greg D Schechter

Joseph S Beda, Iii

William David Sproule

Vijayan Prabhakaran

Nitin Suri

Michael John Hillberg

Matthew W Calkins

Michael Dean Stokes

Joseph Spencer King

Gokul Soundararajan

Ivan J Leichtling

Joy Chik

Joe King

Kevin T Gallo

Induja Sreekanthan

Athanasios Papathanasiou

Gilman Kuey Wong

Rajat Goel

Venu Gopal Nayar

Donald B Curtis

Joseph Ternasky

Lokesh Joshi

Gerhard A Schneider

Namita Gupta

David C Brown

Robert Albert Wlodarczyk

Kenneth Lawrence Young

Oreste Dorin Ungureanu

Mikhail V Leonov

Gilles Khouzam

Andrei Baioura

Eric S Vandenberg

Manigandan Natarajan

Frederick Ryan Johnson

Rahul V Patil

Mohammad A Kanso

Patrick John Sweeney

Kurt B Jacob

Pawel Wiktor Olszta

Naga Raju Bhanoori

Patrick G Mullen

Elizabeth K Nelson

Biliana K Kaneva

Hebatalla Mohamed Mohamed Aly Eldakiky

Jan Zieh

Musachy Barroso

Mark David Van Hamersveld

Jeffrey Gerard Rodrigues

Eduardo M Maia

Sriya Sampath

Paul David

Efficient superblock data structures are implemented for a data set. A superblock data structure, a log to commit changes to a superblock data structure, and an auxiliary data structure may be updated when an update to a data set is performed. The update may update respective location headers in the auxiliary data structure and the superblock data structure.

Efficient superblock data structures for database systems

Methods for modeling performance of tiered storage of a data processing service given a decrease in the storage capacity of a warm storage tier of the tiered storage are disclosed. Metadata of the warm storage tier is used to track hits due to incoming queries on data blocks that are stored in the warm storage tier. The metadata prioritizes data block identifiers that correspond to the data blocks stored in the warm storage tier by frequency of hits due to the incoming queries, or various other prioritization schemes. One or more partitions of the metadata may be set that correspond to respective downsized storage capacity scenarios of the warm storage tier. When an incoming query targets a data block within a given partition of the metadata, a hit counter is incremented to track the hit rate that would be made on the downsized warm storage tier corresponding to that partition.

Down-sized cluster performance modeling for a tiered data processing service

Methods for improving performance of tiered storage of a data processing service by detecting and reducing thrashing of data blocks between warm and cold storage tiers are disclosed. In order to understand the frequency of hits by incoming queries to data blocks that are not currently stored in the warm storage tier, the elapsed time between query hits to the respective data blocks may be tracked using timers. Times below a given amount of time may be used to indicate thrashing. For example, recently evicted data blocks that are subsequently hit by a query within a short amount of time since eviction may indicate thrashing. In scenarios in which thrashing may be occurring, a threshold corresponding to the number of times a given data block in the cold storage tier receives a query hit before being added to the warm storage tier may be turned on.

Thrashing detection and avoidance for a tiered data processing service

Methods for modeling performance of tiered storage of a data processing service given an increase in the storage capacity of a warm storage tier of the tiered storage are disclosed. Buffers in the warm storage tier are used to store data block identifiers corresponding to a set of data blocks that would be stored in the warm storage tier given the increase in storage capacity in addition to those already stored in the warm storage tier. When an incoming query targets a data block that has a corresponding data block identifier in one of the buffers, a hit counter is incremented in order to track the hit rate that would be made on the up-sized warm storage tier. In response to adding the data block targeted by the query to the warm storage tier, one or more evictions from the warm storage tier may additionally be triggered.

Up-sized cluster performance modeling for a tiered data processing service

Users access content using a variety of formats, where some formats provide stronger encryption or protections than others. Content transmitted over open protocols may expose content to unauthorized third parties or enable unauthorized use of the content. The content may be protected by converting the content to a set of instructions on a user device, where the instructions correlate characters to identifications and outlines of the characters with instructions for rendering the characters. Different segments of content may have different mappings between characters, identifications, and outlines to add time or resource use to attempts to reverse engineer the instructions.

Content protection for device rendering

Visual animation platforms may allow users to develop visual media projects, such as movies. Many visual animation platforms may provide animation effects that may be applied to visual elements of a visual media project. Unfortunately, current techniques for providing a preview of an animation effect may be limited. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for presenting a visual preview are disclosed herein. In particular, a snapshot of an original state of a selected visual element may be stored. A referenced animation effect may be applied to the selected visual element to generate an updated visual element that may be used to generate a visual preview of how the referenced animation effect may look as applied to the selected visual element. The snapshot may be applied to the updated visual element to non-destructively revert the updated visual element to the original state.

Visual previews

Automatic story production is implemented by the utilization of theme scripts with user assets to generate a quality finished product with minimum user input or direction. A user chooses a predesigned theme script to be applied to the user's assets to automatically create a story with a particular look and feel. Metadata and feature information, when available, is automatically gathered from the user assets to personalize the generated story. A user can include additional information and/or alter any aspect of the generated story to further personalize the resultant finished product.

Automated story generation

Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platform-independent framework for document formats that enable software and hardware systems to generate, exchange, and display documents reliably and consistently. The framework and format have been designed in a flexible and extensible fashion. In addition to this general framework and format, a particular format, known as the reach package format, is defined using the general framework. The reach package format is a format for storing paginated documents. The contents of a reach package can be displayed or printed with full fidelity among devices and applications in a wide range of environments and across a wide range of scenarios.

Packages that contain pre-paginated documents

Methods and systems for applying visual effects to active content, such as buttons, comboboxes, video, edit fields, etc., wherein interactivity of the active content are retained thereafter. Also, the present disclosure provides a mechanism for developers to build new visual effects and have them applied to active content.

Extensible visual effects on active content in user interfaces

In aspects, a class hierarchy is defined that provides definitions of methods for operating on at least bitmaps and vector graphics. A software developer may instantiate an object according to a class definition of the class hierarchy and assign it to any variable (e.g., a control's property) having a type of an ancestor class of the class. The object may be associated with an image internally represented as bitmap, vector graphics, or some other representation. The control does not need to be aware of how the image is represented. Rather, to draw an image associated with the object, a draw method associated with the object may be called.

Resolution independent image resource

A system that provides graphics commands that represent graphics or an image, to a consuming process. The graphics commands are represented by a visual tree which includes objects and resources describing the objects. The objects and resources are communicated to a composition engine that creates an analogous composition tree that is analogous to the visual tree. The composition tree is used to render the graphics or image.

High level graphics stream

A media integration layer including an application programming interface (API) and an object model allows program code developers to interface in a consistent manner with a scene graph data structure in order to output graphics. Via the interfaces, program code adds child visuals to other visuals to build up a hierarchical scene graph, writes Instruction Lists such as geometry data, image data, animation data and other data for output, and may specify transform, clipping and opacity properties on visuals. The media integration layer and API enable programmers to accomplish composition effects within their applications in a straightforward manner, while leveraging the graphics processing unit in a manner that does not adversely impact normal application performance. A multiple-level system includes the ability to combine different media types (such as 2D, 3D, Video, Audio, text and imaging) and animate them smoothly and seamlessly.

Media integration layer

Document mark up methods and systems

An element object model and a vector graphics markup language for using that element object model in a manner that allows program code developers to consistently interface with a scene graph data structure to produce graphics. The vector graphics element object model generally corresponds to shape elements and other elements including image and video elements that correlate with a scene graph object model of the scene graph. Markup may be parsed into data including elements in an element tree that is translated into the objects of a scene graph data structure. Other markup may be translated directly into data and calls that create the scene graph objects. The markup language provides distinct ways to describe an element, including a simple string format or complex property syntax, which may be named, enabling reuse in other locations in the markup.

Vector graphics element-based model, application programming interface, and markup language

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Sriram Subramanian