Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Panasonic Corporation

Vishal Vikram Ghotge

Ravinder S Thind

Sarosh Cyrus Havewala

Ravisankar V Pudipeddi

Mark Joseph Zbikowski

David Allen Goebel

Yoshiho Gotoh

Abolade Gbadegesin

Megan Galbraith Donahue

Garret Buban

Yasser Elsayed Shaaban

Rajeev Y Nagar

Peter J Torr

Darin Miller

Jorge I Raastroem

Timothy Daniel Noonan

Rachel Jiang

Chittur Padmanabhan Subbaraman

Adrian Dragomir

Marc David McClure

Jianping Yin

Gregory Arthur De Souza

Pavan Rajamohan Hullumane

Taqi Jaffri

Gregory Alan Howard

Kaushik Sethuraman

Edward C Chung

Neal Robert Christiansen

Revinder S Thind

Ranveer Chandra

Keith Stuart Kaplan

John David Bruner

Mahendra D Sekaran

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Thomas Jay Miller

Dhigha D Sekaran

Akhilesh Kaza

Paul Adrian Oltean

Jeffrey B Kay

David Golds

Amey Parandekar

Anish Desai

Apurv Bhartia

Benjamin A Leis

Brian D Andrew

Frank Stephen Serdy, Jr

Reid Joseph Kuhn

Syed Mansoor Jafry

John D Skovron

Lucia Darsa

Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy

Nimesh I Amin

Shawn Patrick Henry

Karl Petter Karlsson

Hagen Green

Ray Froelich

Tript Singh Lamba

Daniel W H Chan

Bo Lu

Eugen Pajor

Ramkumar Natarajan

Eric Bie

Tony Seeley

Bayo Olatunji

Andrew Peter Schoorl

Vij Vasu

Steve Serdy

Christopher F Robert

Marc David Mcclure

Peter John Torr

An application may be integrated into an operating system component of a mobile computing platform. The application communicates registration information to an extension mechanism within the mobile computing platform. The extension mechanism registers the application and modifies the operating system component to provide interoperability with the application based on the registration information. The extension mechanism couples the operating system component with content from a counterpart application to the application, which corresponds to information presented on the operating system component.

Integrating an application into operating system components of a mobile computing platform

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

A method of updating a file record on at least one of a first one or more computer readable storage media including writing at least three contiguous DirectoryEntry data structures corresponding to a directory entry set, the directory entry set corresponding to a file, the writing occurring to the at least one of a first one or more computer readable storage media.

Quick filename lookup using name hash

An extensible file system format for portable storage media is provided. The extensible file system format includes the specification of primary and secondary directory entry types that may be custom defined. The primary and secondary directory entry types can be further classified as critical and benign directory entries. The directory entry types can define whether a cluster chain corresponding to a file can be contiguously allocated.

Extending cluster allocations in an extensible file system

An extensible file system format for portable storage media is provided. The extensible file system format includes the specification of primary and secondary directory entry types that may be custom defined. The primary and secondary directory entry types can be further classified as critical and benign directory entries.

Extensible file system

The subject disclosure is directed towards integrating an application into an operating system component of a mobile computing platform. The application communicates registration information to an extension mechanism within the mobile computing platform. The extension mechanism registers the application and modifies the operating system component to provide interoperability with the application based on the registration information. The extension mechanism couples the operating system component with content from a counterpart application to the application, which corresponds to information presented on the operating system component.

Disclosed is a method for creating and reading a contiguous file in an extensible file system. During the creation of a file on the storage media, the file system format check the bitmap to determine if there are areas of free space on the media that would permit the storage of the file in a contiguous manner. By storing the file in a contiguous manner the file may later be read without resorting to the file allocation table, because the file itself would not be fragmented on the storage media. Once an area of free space has been identified, the file is written to the media in a contiguous manner. Further, an associated entry for the file in the directory entry is updated or created to indicate that the file is a contiguous file and also provides basic parameters necessary to read the file without resorting to accessing the file allocation table.

Contiguous file allocation in an extensible file system

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Vishal Vikram Ghotge