Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Timothy Daniel Noonan

Abolade Gbadegesin

Vishal Vikram Ghotge

Megan Galbraith Donahue

Yasser Elsayed Shaaban

Peter J Torr

Darin Miller

Jorge I Raastroem

Rachel Jiang

Marc David McClure

Adrian Dragomir

Chittur Padmanabhan Subbaraman

Jianping Yin

Gregory Arthur De Souza

Pavan Rajamohan Hullumane

Mark R Ligameri

Charles Cummins

Charles W Stabb

Timothy P McKee

David Andrew Matthews

J Craig Hally

Sterling M Reasor

Hillel Noah Cooperman

Giampiero M Sierra

Eric R Flo

Kanwal Vedbrat

Steve Capps

Jude Jacob Kavalam

Valeriy V Tsuryk

Nigel Stuart Keam

Pierre-Yves Santerre

Edward J Praitis

Adam D Stritzel

Jonathan C Lew

Marc David Mcclure

Peter John Torr

The subject disclosure is directed towards a background transfer service that provides platform-level support for third party applications to queue data transfers to run in the background, including when the application is not running in the foreground. Applications may thus perform downloading and uploading tasks in the background; however the background transfer service manages the data transfer requests so as to limit each background application's ability to interfere with foreground application operations, that is, by controlling resource usage according to one or more policies.

Background transfer service for applications on mobile devices

In an implementation of user interface transition, a user interface logon page is displayed with selectable logon controls that each have a corresponding user-identifiable indicator. A transition from the user interface logon page to a user interface desktop page is initiated in response to a selectable logon control being selected. The transition displays the user-identifiable indicator corresponding to the selectable logon control uninterrupted throughout the transition, and the user-identifiable indicator corresponding to the selectable logon control is displayed on the user interface desktop page.

User interface transition

In an implementation of user interface start page, the start page includes a user-identifiable indicator associated with a user of a computing system to indicate that the user is logged-on to the computing system. The user interface start page also includes user-selectable controls from one or more regions of a user interface desktop page which is displayed after a transition from the user interface start page to the user interface desktop page. Each of the user-selectable controls on the user interface start page initiate a display of information associated with the user when selected.

User interface start page

Monitoring interactions between application programs and data stores for analyzing stability of application programs. A method of the invention intercepts interactions from a plurality of application programs to a data store. The method also identifies pre-execution data relating to each of the intercepted interactions and the intercepted interaction is executed. The method identifies post-execution data relating to each of the executed interactions. The identified pre-execution data and the identified post-execution data from each of the interactions are normalized to create normalized interaction data for each of the interactions. The method combines the normalized interaction data for each of the interactions as a function of the application programs associated with each of the interactions. The method further stores the combined interaction data for analysis of the interactions between the application programs and the data store which is indicative of the stability of the application programs.

System and method for monitoring interactions between application programs and data stores

Preventing uncontrolled access to an execution environment of a first component object by a second component object. A system includes a memory area storing the first component object, the second component object, and one or more predefined properties associated with the second component object. The system comprises a processor configured to receive a request from the first component object stored in the memory area to create the second component object stored in the memory area. The first component object executes in a first execution environment and the request specifies a requested execution environment for the second component object. The processor is also configured for analyzing the predefined properties stored in the memory area to determine an execution environment privilege associated with the second component object. The processor is configured for granting the received request as a function of the determined execution environment privilege.

Dynamic out-of-process software components isolation for trustworthiness execution

A universal media player designed to improve a user's online media experience that is preferably embedded in an Internet browser is disclosed. The universal media player allows a user to navigate between different sources of media without requiring the downloading of the media player associated with the format of the media source. The universal media player includes an interface with user-actuable control buttons, the universal media player determining whether incoming media is playable by the universal media player. If the incoming media is playable by the universal media player, the media is intercepted as the media is downloaded and redirected to the universal media player. Determining if the media is playable is accomplished by identifying the type of incoming media and searching a table of MIME media types.

Universal media player

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Timothy Daniel Noonan