Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Oracle International Corporation

Yogesh Sreenivasan

Jagwinder Singh Brar

Peter John Hill

Sandeep Rangarajan

Shai Guday

Harish Srinivasan

Rao Salapaka

Bama Ramarathnam

Vu Phan Hoang Nguyen

A network validation system is described which may perform operations such as generating, analyzing, verifying, correcting, recommending, and deploying language, symbols, etc., such as domain specific language, configured to allow users to express their intent on the configuration and operation of a network, such as a cloud-based network. The network validation system may provide domain specific language that includes rules, statements, symbols, data, etc., configured to convey the intent of users on the configuration and operation of networks for purposes such as configuring and/or validating communication paths, testing or setting associated network object configurations, and may be employed to report violations in such configurations relative to user intent of the one or more users. The network validation system may also be employed to monitor such domain specific language and generate telemetry signaling, for example, that a rule has or has not been violated, actions a user may take, etc.

Network operation based on domain specific language

Intent-based network validation

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described herein that enable a computing device to dynamically generate virtual private network (VPN) connection profiles to which policies can be mapped and then subsequently enforced. The VPN connection profiles are dynamically generated by a translation engine by obtaining parameters from payloads received from a plurality of different VPN gateways pursuant to establishing connections therewith in accordance with a respective plurality of different tunneling protocols, which may include both standard and proprietary tunneling protocols. The dynamically-generated VPN connection profiles are then provided to a connection manager, which enforces any policies associated with the VPN connection profiles when servicing requests for connections received from applications running on the computing device.

Dynamic and interoperable generation of stateful VPN connection profiles for computing devices

Example apparatus and methods concern fingerprint-based, intelligent, content pre-fetching. An example apparatus may have a memory that is configured to store content items or fingerprints derived from content items. The apparatus may include a set of logics that are configured to selectively asynchronously provide a content item or a fingerprint derived from the content item to a data store on a mobile computing device. The items are provided in response to an event other than a request for content from the mobile computing device. The apparatus may be configured to select the content item based on a proactive, crowd-sourced, predictive and adaptive method. The apparatus may provide the content item or the fingerprint to the mobile device and to other related mobile devices or users. The apparatus may consider the state (e.g., available memory, available battery, available communication channels) of the mobile device before providing content.

Fingerprint-based, intelligent, content pre-fetching

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