Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Xin Liu

John David Bruner

Taqi Jaffri

Sapna Mahendra Bafna

Michael Andrew Hawker

Christopher Recarlo Blackman

Kristofer Noel Iverson

Lihua Yuan

Lon-Chan Chu

Jiawei Gu

Brian W MacDonald

Yikang Xu

Nitin Agrawal

Tabreez Govani

Gerald Roy Degrace

Leonard Alan Collins

Nipoon Malhotra

Hussein Mohamed Mehanna

James Francis Gilsinan, Iv

James Brian Lawson

Glen Joseph Fernandes

Ashwin Satyanarayana

Mairéad Áine O'Donovan

Chaochao Huang

Kimberly M Vlcek

Asad Mohiuddin

Systems and methods are provided for implementing a customizable and animatable popup card system. The popup card system includes animatable popup cards and popup card user interface ('UI') elements, with location awareness functionality and scrolling awareness functionality. A user experience (“UX”) that is generated and displayed by the popup card system is adaptive to a multitude of scenarios and app (e.g., window) surfaces and is responsive to a variety of user inputs (including via mouse, keyboard, pen/stylus, touch, and voice). Transitioning between popup card states and/or between corresponding popup cards is smooth and seamless, and is anchored within the UI or app window, without need for users to navigate to another page or app to complete an action triggered by user input.

Customizable and animatable popup card system

Computer-implemented systems and methods for rendering a visual effect on a graphical element, including: generating an initial visual effect based on the graphical element; computing a mask shape based on the graphical element; generating a mask based on the mask shape from the graphical element; masking the initial visual effect based on the mask to generate a masked visual effect; and combining the masked visual effect with the graphical element into a combined graphical element and visual effect.

Masking and compositing visual effects in user interfaces

In an environment comprising a group of servers and at least two network devices, a link fault is detected. A data cable connects each of the servers to both network devices. An active communication path from one of the network devices to the servers is determined. In response to detecting a failure of the active communication path, a second of the network devices is indicated as the active network device. The configuration is detected by the network devices based on packets received at the network devices.

Software emulated switching of dual network devices

An input device include a deformable tip that is adjustable to define a shape tip configuration. Exemplary tip shapes may include multiple types of oil brushes or a Chinese brush, among other alternatives. In some cases, the deformable tip may be more rigid in a jammed tip configuration in which solid particles in a membrane are jammed together using a vacuum pump. In some examples, at least a portion of the deformable tip may be illuminated in a color to be used in the digital painting application.

Deformable input device

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing query-completion suggestions configured to be searched against vertical information domains in response to receiving a general web search query are provided. At least a portion of a general web search query is received. As the portion of the general web search query is received, query-completion suggestions are determined as is a likely primary intent associated with at least a portion of the determined query-completion suggestions. If the likely primary intent associated with a particular query-completion suggestion is for information associated with a particular vertical information domain other than the general web domain, the query-completion suggestion is provided such that selection thereof causes searching of the query-completion suggestion against the particular information domain for search results.

Domain specific query-completion suggestions

Methods and computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate determining enhanced query suggestions are provided. A plurality of query suggestions responsive to a user query are received. Items of data corresponding to the query suggestions are received. Based on the received query suggestions and the received items of data, enhanced query suggestions are determined. In embodiments, an enhanced query suggestion includes one or more items of data related to a respective query suggestion. A user may select at least a portion of an enhanced query suggestion. In embodiments, selection of a portion of an enhanced query suggestion provides additional information.

Enhanced query suggestions in autosuggest with corresponding relevant data

Controlling resource access by entities hosted by an execution extension environment via entity identifiers associated with the resources or with the execution extension environment. Policy sets define the access to the resources. Each policy set includes a principal identifier for execution extension environment, a resource identifier for one of the resources, and access rights. The principal identifier or the resource identifier includes one of the entity identifiers. Access requests from entities are evaluated by comparing the entity identifiers to the policy sets. In some embodiments, the policy sets implement access control for web browsers hosting executable code that attempts to access resources on a computing device.

Controlling access to resources by hosted entities

Disclosed are methods that enable communications to be established regardless of the presence of communications blockers, e.g., firewalls and NATs, in the path between two computing devices. Two devices each establish communications with a rendezvous service. Through the service, the devices signal each other to set up direct, peer-to-peer communications between themselves. If the devices fail to establish direct communications, then they invoke a relay service that provides the illusion of direct communications. In another aspect, an originating device attempts to establish communications with a recipient, using an address and port number associated with the recipient. If that attempts fails, possibly because a firewall is blocking communications, then the originating device retries using a port normally held open by firewalls. If this attempt also fails, then the originating device invokes the services of a proxy to negotiate a port acceptable for use by the recipient and by any intervening firewalls.

Methods and systems for establishing communications through firewalls and network address translators

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