Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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Vladimir Rovinsky

Mehul Y Shah

Dongmei Zhang

Jun Liu

John M Parchem

Wei Jiang

Soemin Tjong

Sureshkumar Natarajan

Suzanne M Tocco

Bryce Hutchings

In one embodiment, an internet monitor service may use a final content rating to determine access to a webpage. A monitor clientmay generate a client content rating of a webpage. The monitor clientmay factor the client content rating with a server content rating of the webpageto determine a final content rating for the webpage

Combining client and server classifiers to achieve better accuracy and performance results in web page classification

Systems and methods for adjusting a source image aspect ratio to match a different target display aspect ratio are described. In one aspect, the systems and methods determine that a source image has a first aspect ratio that is different than a second aspect ratio of a target display. Responsive to this determination, primary visual content of the source image is automatically detected. Dimensions and position of a crop of the source image are automatically calculated such that the crop preserves at least a subset of the primary visual content in the crop. Additionally, the crop is based on the second aspect ratio.

Systems and methods to adjust a source image aspect ratio to match a different target display aspect ratio

A system and/or a method facilitates creating an image-based video by automatically applying a motion to an image. A motion component can receive the image and generate a corresponding motion, which can mitigate complications involved with authoring the image-based video. The motion component can apply the motion to the image based at least upon a comparison between an aspect ratio of the image and a resulting video aspect ratio. The comparison can be a numeric difference, wherein the difference can be associated with a category, wherein the category provides the motion to be applied.

Photostory 3&#x2014;automated motion generation

Improved methods and arrangements are provided for updating software and other data in managed devices. The methods and arrangements provide for a failsafe upgrade to all of the code and any data in the managed device, including any code or data used to provide such upgrades. For example, a method for providing software to a device is provided that includes identifying essential software within the device; essential software including software necessary to operate the device and provide external communications. The method further includes identifying remaining portions of software within the device as non-essential software, and downloading new essential software from an external source to the device and storing the new essential software in memory by overwriting at least a portion of the non-essential software. After downloading the new essential software, the method further includes attempting to operate the device and provide external communications using the new essential software, and upon successfully operating the device and providing external communications, using the new essential software to selectively download new non-essential software and store the new non-essential software in memory by overwriting at least a portion of the old essential software.

Methods and arrangements for managing devices

Interface for a display screen

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Vladimir Rovinsky