Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Nvidia Corporation

Nvidia Corporaton

Travis Muhlestein

Corina Eva Feuerstein

Jeffrey M Cooperstein

Alan Geoffrey Boshier

Radu Rares Palanca

Erik B Christensen

Anders Hejlsberg

Gopala Krishna R Kakivaya

Christopher Wellington Brumme

Michael M Magruder

Raja Krishnaswamy

David Bau

Brian LaMacchia

Lance Olson

Henry L Sanders

David S Ebbo

Julie D Bennett

James S Miller

Sean Edwin Trowbridge

Jonathan C Hawkins

Krzysztof J Cwalina

Seth Mitchell Demsey

Brian M Grunkemeyer

Shawn Patrick Burke

Stefan Harrington Pharies

Christopher L Anderson

Loren Kohnfelder

Paul Stephen Hellyar

Yung-Shin Lin

Anthony J Moore

Erik B Olson

Yann Christensen

Fabio A Yeon

James H Hogg

Craig T Sinclair

Adam Wade Smith

David S Mortenson

Caleb L Doise

Shajan Dasan

Manish S Prabhu

Joseph L Roxe

Tarun Anand

John I McConnell

Suzanne Maurine Cook

Jesus Ruiz-Scougall

Hany E Ramadan

Robert Sadao Unoki

Joe Dennis Long

Jonathan B White

Raymond W McCollum

Gregory Darrell Fee

Alexander Evgenievich Nosov

Ryan Yonghee Kim

Sudhakar Visweswara Prabhu

Patrick R Kenny

David Owen Driver

Ahmed El-Shimi

Jeffrey P Snover

Adam M Smith

Prabindh Sundareson

Victor Tan

Jean-Emile Elien

Jesse Daniel Kaplan

Dhananjay Madhusudan Mahajan

Jim Van Welzen

Saswata Mandal

Nathan Otterness

John Patrick Thompson

Christian Klein

David A Nichols

Yan Valerie Leshinsky

Stephen James Millet

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

Nikhil Kothari

Scott David Guthrie

Luca Bolognese

Pavel Curtis

Keith W Ballinger

James Lewis Van Welzen

Brian Keith Pepin

Mark T Anders

Jun Fang

Susan M Warren

Anthony Vincent Discolo

Nicholas M Kramer

Guo-Wei Shieh

Manu Vasandani

Robert Michael Howard

Justin Grant

Andres Vega-Garcia

Chad W Royal

Markus Horstmann

Siddhant Pardeshi

Mark W Fussell

Amit Parikh

Omri Gazitt

Mark A Boulter

Robert Thomas Schumaker

Pranit P Kothari

Vinayak Vilas Gaikwad

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented to generate one or more interfaces. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are used to generate one or more second graphical user interfaces based, at least in part, on one or more functional features of one or more first graphical user interfaces.

Interface translation using one or more neural networks

In various examples, applications may be executed on remote computing devices to composite and broadcast gameplay with video and audio data. Systems and methods are disclosed that distribute, between and among various computing devices, processing of tasks including rendering of gameplay, composition of various types of data, and broadcasting of composited data. The tasks may be executed on computing devices that are remote to a client device, such as a virtual machine, GPU, server, and/or other computing device in the cloud, all of which are connected through a network. Customized composited content may be generated within the system, without latency and dropped frames, by distributing tasks such as compositing and rendering of gameplay to computing devices that have high performance capability and are specialized for handling memory- and time-intensive tasks.

Cloud execution of audio/video compositing applications

A game-agnostic event detector can be used to automatically identify game events. Game-specific configuration data can be used to specify types of pre-processing to be performed on media for a game session, as well as types of detectors to be used to detect events for the game. Event data for detected events can be written to an event log in a form that is both human- and process-readable. The event data can be used for various purposes, such as to generate highlight videos or provide player performance feedback.

Game event recognition

A gaming console composites a camera video overlay on gameplay video for broadcasting such that the gameplay area that is rendered by the gaming console is not obscured, even when the camera video overlay is composited on the gameplay video for broadcasting. The gaming console or a companion device of the gaming console can also allow a user to specify placement of the camera video overlay on the gameplay video for broadcasting, permitting the user to choose the portion of the gameplay video for broadcasting that is obscured by the camera video overlay.

Positioning a camera video overlay on gameplay video

A video game application is executed on a computer gaming device. While the video game application is providing active gameplay, the computer gaming device receives a command to broadcast the active gameplay. Responsive to the command, the computer gaming device broadcasts the active gameplay without interrupting the active gameplay.

Broadcast initiation without interruption to active gameplay

Various methods and systems for securing communications with enhanced media platforms, are provided. In particular, an enhanced media platform is authenticated using a trusted location. The authenticated enhanced media platform establishes a bidirectional trust with an enhanced remote location, the enhanced media platform being stored in the enhanced remote location. Upon authentication and establishing the bidirectional trust, the enhanced media platform may securely communicate media content in a media content distribution service infrastructure while supporting custom functionality. The method for securing communications with enhanced media platforms includes communicating authentication credentials to an internal security component at the trusted location. The method further includes receiving validation credentials from the internal security component. The method also includes authenticating the enhanced remote location based on at least a portion of the validation credentials received. The method further includes establishing the bidirectional trust relationship with the enhanced remote location using the validation credentials.

Securing communications with enhanced media platforms

Cooperative interaction of a message processor and an intermediation processor. The message processor processes messages received from a network and to be sent over a network. The intermediation processor intermediates between the message processor and the network using a shared memory that includes a memory portion that is within the address space of the message processor. The message processor writes messages into the memory portion over a physical channel and reads message from the memory portion over the physical channel. The intermediation processor provides messages received from a network into the memory portion so that the received messages can be read by the message processor over the physical channel. The intermediation processor dispatches messages written to the memory portion by the message processor over the network.

Network communication using intermediation processor

A system that contains multiple game servers that have a non-user specific unused state, and a user-specific game state. When the game server is providing a game service on the other hand, the game server first obtains the user data for the user and game that is to be initiated. Accordingly, the game servers may be thought of as a bank of game servers, any one of which being potentially utilizable for incoming game requests. Once the game session is completed, the user data for the gamer may be deleted, and the game server goes back into the pool of available generic game servers. The user data is downloaded from a user data store, and may be quite limited to perhaps just that portion of the user data that relates to the game to be played.

Game progression using retrieved partial user data

A command line utility is described that overlays the management infrastructure of an enterprise to provide easier command options for administrators to effectively manage the enterprise. The primary intent of the command line utility is to facilitate management of the environment without requiring administrators to write scripts or navigate a vast schematized enterprise exposed through the management infrastructure. The command line utility provides command options through class aliases that enable the mapping of management queries and operations to a common term or friendly name that can be extended both in an alias file or at run time in the command line.

System and related methods for accessing management functionality through a command line utility

A computer-implemented method for exposing instrumentation data available from within a managed code environment to an instrumentation data source executing outside of said managed code environment is presented. The method comprises each of the following. An indication is received that said instrumentation data should be exposed to said instrumentation data source. In response to receiving said indication, a decoupled provider is loaded. The decoupled provider facilitates communication between said managed code environment and said instrumentation data source. A determination is made as to whether schema describing said instrumentation data has been previously registered with said instrumentation data source. In response to determining that said schema has not been previously registered with said instrumentation data source, said schema is registered with said instrumentation data source through said decoupled provider.

Providing instrumentation data to an instrumentation data source from within a managed code

An instrumentation client API is provided within a managed code runtime environment for accessing instrumentation data that resides outside of the managed code runtime environment. The instrumentation client API provides access to instrumentation data in a manner that is consistent with the classes and models provided by the runtime environment, raises exceptions in a manner that is compatible with the runtime environment, and is secure. The instrumentation client API wraps, or translates, calls to and from an instrumentation data source external to the runtime environment. The API interacts with an interface provided by the instrumentation data source to provide functionality and connectivity that is not otherwise provided by the instrumentation data source. The API also provides access to instrumentation data in a manner that is consistent with the models and classes provided by the runtime platform. The classes defined by the API return collections and exceptions in a way that is consistent with the managed code runtime platform.

Method and apparatus for accessing instrumentation data from within a managed code environment

Techniques for determining a complete address of a test point of an application from a relative address of the test point and a configuration of a system are provided. An application component that defines the application includes a relative address of the test point. An abstract configuration of a system specifies a location where an instance of the application is to be deployed within the system. The complete address of the test point is then formulated using the relative address of the test point and the indication of the location where an instance of the application is to be deployed within the system. The complete address of the test point can then be used to perform a health check of the instance of the application.

Application health checks

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