Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yuanquan Zhang

Jeroen Vanturennout

Ranjib Singh Badh

Eyal Axelrod

Jason Randall Wadsworth

Hari R Pulapaka

Alain Franck Gefflaut

John R Selbie

Kandarp Jani

Troy A Schauls

Raghuveer Simha

K Aaron Williams

Thomas Aleksandr Barbour

William S Archbell

In one embodiment, an application modulemay adjust a synchronization schemebased on the operational state of a computing deviceAn operating systemmay determine an operational state for a computing deviceThe operating systemmay assign a synchronization allotmentto the application modulebased on the operational state. A synchronization engineof the application modulemay implement a synchronization schemebased on the synchronization allotment

Adaptive data synchronization

In one embodiment, a synchronization engineof an application modulemay adjust a synchronization schemebased on the implicit data classification of a data item. A synchronization enginemay detect a user actionexecuted by a user on a data item. The synchronization enginemay determine an action typefor the user action. The synchronization enginemay assign an item synchronization priority to the data itembased on the action type

Data classification for adaptive synchronization

In one embodiment, an application modulemay adjust a synchronization schemebased on the operational state of a computing device. An operating systemmay determine an operational state for a computing device. The operating systemmay assign a synchronization allotmentto the application modulebased on the operational state. A synchronization engineof the application modulemay implement a synchronization schemebased on the synchronization allotment

Functionality is described for allowing a first user to select a sound item. The first user can use a first device to send this sound item to a second device operated by a second user. Upon the occurrence of a triggering event, the sound item selected by the first user can be presented by the second device to the second user. The first device and the second device may correspond to two devices in an Instant Messaging (IM) system. According to another illustrative aspect, functionality is described that allows the first user to select the new sound item from a source sound item by adjusting the position and/or size (e.g., width) of a graphical selection unit that is presented over a graphical depiction of the source sound item.

Providing sender-selected sound items to conversation participants

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Yuanquan Zhang