Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yahoo! Inc.

Stephane Karoubi

Justin Mann

Bharath Siravara

Martin Regen

Li Xu

Sudeesh Reddy Pingili

Ray Brown

David R Anderson

Jon Michael Herron

Darrin E Eide

Bian Jiang

Xianzhe Ma

Joe Montgomery

Ashish Sharma

Mobile computing device power consumption can be reduced by using expiration window timers, state-based timers and/or the coordination of keep-alive timers. A mobile computing device can execute tasks associated with multiple keep-alive timers used for maintaining communication links between the device and cloud-based service providers in a single active state. A cloud-based keep-alive service can maintain mobile computing device-service provider communication links by sending one keep-alive communication to a mobile computing device in place of multiple communications. Upon receiving a response, the keep-alive surface can send a plurality of keep-alive communications to a plurality of cloud-based service providers.

Power management via coordination and selective operation of timer-related tasks

A method of coordinating tasks of a mobile computing device may include initializing a timer associated with one or more tasks and a state condition. The state condition may depend on a device state of the mobile computing device and/or a component state of a mobile computing device component. An expiration of the timer is detected. Upon detecting the expiration, a determination is made whether the state condition is satisfied based on whether the mobile computing device is in the device state and/or the mobile computing device component is in the component state. Based at least in part on the determination that the state condition is satisfied, performance of the one or more tasks associated with the timer can be initiated.

A system and method for facilitating email messaging combines the convenience of an auto-fill of the recipient fields in a standard email message with a blank canvas for composing a new, quick reply message. By selecting the quick reply feature that can be provided with the message view screen of an email utility, the user is shown a second user interface with a blank compose screen. The email recipients are automatically filled in from the message view screen of the current message. The quick reply message can be transmitted as an email message through the email utility.

System and method for facilitating email message reply

Briefly, embodiments of methods or systems for testing software modules are disclosed.

Testing computer-implementable instructions

Mobile computing device power consumption can be reduced by using expiration window timers, state-based timers and/or the coordination of keep-alive timers. Upon detecting a trigger event causing a mobile computing device to transition from a low-power state to an active state, the device can determine whether the trigger event occurs within the expiration window of a timer, and execute tasks associated with the trigger event and the timer. Tasks associated with state-based timers can be executed if the mobile computing device or a component thereof is in (or, alternatively, not in) a specified state. A mobile computing device can execute tasks associated with multiple keep-alive timers used for maintaining communication links between the device and cloud-based service providers in a single active state. A cloud-based keep-alive service can maintain mobile computing device-service provider communication links by sending one keep-alive communication to a mobile computing device in place of multiple communications.

An arrangement for generating page and/or device-optimized cascading style sheets ('CSS') is disclosed in which CSS blocks are provided in a collection of one or more files. In an illustrative example, the collection of files is arranged as XML (extensible Markup Language) files. Each CSS block is marked with attributes that indicate to which modules used to compose a page it applies, and/or its applicability to a specific device. At page rendering time, the CSS for the page is dynamically generated by selecting CSS blocks from the files based on detected device capabilities and/or the modules on the page.

Page and device-optimized cascading style sheets

A method of processing cookies for use in a computer includes using at least two of a number of available processing steps. The steps may include encrypting a cookie prior to entering the cookie in a cookie container; compressing a cookie prior to entering the cookie in a cookie container; serializing a cookie prior to entering the cookie in a cookie container; entering the cookie data in a data dictionary; setting an HTTP-only attribute prior to allowing the cookie to be transmitted to a server; and/or setting a secure transmission only attribute prior to allowing the cookie to be transmitted to a server.

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Stephane Karoubi