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Microsoft Corporation

Zhangwei Xu

Curt Andrew Steeb

Alexander Frank

Martin D Hall

William Jefferson Westerinen

Thomas G Phillips

Anthony Vincent Discolo

Isaac P Ahdout

Todd R Manion

Donald F Box

Shiraz Jitendra Cupala

Jeremy Lee Dewey

Min Liu

Martin James Gudgin

Rajagopal Venkatachalam

Mark James McNulty

Zeyong Xu

Martin Holladay

Todd L Carpenter

Xu Zhang

Dongmei Zhang

Cyrus Kanga

Kathleen Patricia Mulcahy

Jeffrey Alan Herold

Szymon Piotr Stachniak

Kenneth Alan Lobb

Kean Ee Lim

Ricardo Lopez-Barquilla

James Duffus

Qingwei Lin

David Jay Foster

Oren Rosenbloom

Jason Robert Tuck

Neil Warren Black

Jack Creasey

Paul C Sutton

Fei Chen

Dana Lu Silverstein

Wesley Allan Witt

David Jaroslav Sebesta

Russell P Songco

Li Yang

William F Schiefelbein

Mario Esposito

Shon Schmidt

Murali Mohan Chintalapati

John Darren Elliott

Joshua C Zana

Guruprakash Rao

Kurt Daverman

Clinton Chi-Wen Woon

Nicholas Anthony Swanson

Howard Benjamin Nager

Edmund Hon-Sum Lui

Ryan B Elgram

Grant Gardner

Xiaofeng Gao

Ali Khan

Nicholas Temple

Liqun Li

Alain Philippe Maillot

Yingnong Dang

Gokul P Thirumalai

Wyatt Douglas Jackson

Mark Curtis Light

Steve Lunsman

Anupama Vedapuri

Cary L Mitchell

Vincent Joseph Blas

Hansen Liou

Rajive Kumar

Thomas C Phillips

Martin Harm Hall

Alexander D Tudor

John Bronn Socha-Leialoha

Alexander Bussmann

Heather Grantham Brodie

Matthew Alan Medak

Baber M Shaikh

Yu Kang

Rulei Yu

Pu Zhao

Jian Sun

Bo Qiao

Pochian Lee

Bing Hu

Peiling Wu

Chaturanan Damodar Mishra

Igor Figlin

Robert Gerard Boyce

Tony V Perez

Arvind Narasimhan

Yusuf Tinwala

Cyrus R Kanga

Shawn Amelia Prenzlow

Dhiresh Kumar

Gaurav Singhal

Jennifer Hilary Kays

Richard B Thompson

Raja Venkatachalam

Systems, methods, and devices are described for intelligent outage evaluation and insight management for monitoring and incident management systems. A set of incident logs associated with a cloud computing service are received by a cloud computing service provider system. Each incident log includes impact data corresponding to a respective incident that occurred during an evaluation period. The impact data includes an interruption count representative of a number of interruptions on resources caused by the respective incident. A total active resource time representative of resource activity during the evaluation period is determined. An interruption rate is determined for the evaluation period by summing interruption counts to generate a total interruption count and dividing the total interruption count by the total active resource time. An actionable insight applicable to the cloud computing service is generated based on the interruption rate and the incident logs.

Intelligent outage evaluation and insight management for monitoring and incident management systems

The techniques described herein automatically correlate the health of cloud resources to a broader health determination for an entity executing within, or supported by, a distributed computing environment. In contrast to the typical manual analysis that is required to make a broader health determination for a specific entity, the techniques generate and use a standard health model that can be applied, or scaled, to detect unhealthy scenarios across a variety of different entities with different owners (e.g., different tenants and/or different cloud resource providers). Furthermore, to meet varying owner perspectives on health, the techniques include a layer on top of the standard health model that enables an owner to provide input that customizes the standard health model for their own entity.

Health model for cloud service health monitoring

According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, there is provided a solution of providing a health index of a service. In this solution, a plurality of incident information sets associated with a plurality of services are obtained. The plurality of services are provisioned in a computing environment. An incident information set indicates at least one incident reported during operation of a service. Respective health indices are determined for the plurality of services based on respective ones of the plurality of incident information sets and a health classification policy. The respective health indices indicate respective health statuses of the plurality of services and being determined from a same health index range. Through unified use of incident information, the determined health indices can indicate universal and consistent health statuses for different services.

Health index of a service

Example aspects include techniques for employing cross-service diagnostics for cloud service providers. These techniques may include dynamically generating a workflow of one or more diagnostic modules based on relationship information between an origin service experiencing an incident and one or more related services that the origin service depends on, and executing the workflow of one or more diagnostic modules to determine a root cause of the incident, each of the one or more diagnostic modules implemented by an individual service of the one or more related services in accordance with a schema. In addition, the techniques may include determining a diagnostic action based on the root cause, and transmitting, based on the diagnostic action, an engagement notification to a responsible entity.

Automated cross-service diagnostics for large scale infrastructure cloud service providers

Device linking is described. In one or more implementations, data is maintained at a network service that describes characteristics of a plurality of devices that are associated with a user account of the network service. A communication is formed to be received by one of the plurality of devices that includes a portion of the data that pertains to another one of the plurality of devices and that is suitable by the receiving device to discover the other one of the plurality of devices to initiate a local network connection between the devices.

Device linking

Various embodiments, methods, and systems for communicating via a generic companion-messaging session are provided. The generic companion-messaging session includes a base platform running a base platform application and a companion platform running a companion platform application. An initialization message that automatically pairs the companion platform application and the base platform application is sent from the companion platform to the base platform for a generic companion-messaging session. The companion platform is connected to an encrypted communication channel for the generic companion-messaging session with the base platform. The encrypted communication channel supports bidirectional communication over a plurality of connections. A connection from the plurality of connections is determined for routing a message. The message is routed via a direct connection when the direct connection with the base platform is determined and the message is routed via an indirect connection when the indirect connection with the base platform is determined.

Generic companion-messaging between media platforms

Embodiments related to network video messaging are disclosed. One disclosed embodiment provides a method that comprises receiving a video message from a client application of a source client; associating a navigation link with the video message; transmitting a notification message to the recipient client including the navigation link; receiving a retrieval request from the recipient client to access the video content via the navigation link; and transmitting the video content to the recipient client responsive to receiving the retrieval request by providing a persistent download of the video content from the storage server if the download condition indicates that a persistent download of the video content is permissible; and providing a transient download of the video content to the recipient client while prohibiting a persistent download of the video content if the download condition indicates that a persistent download of the video content is not permissible.

Network video messaging

A virtual machine monitor provides a trusted operating environment for a software usage metering application when a qualified virtual machine monitor is loaded as part of trusted boot and when all other programs and operating systems run in containers managed by the virtual machine monitor. The virtual machine monitor may also host a locking application for limiting the functionality of the computer if contractual terms of use are not met. Both the metering and locking applications run at a higher privilege level than ring 0, at the same level as the virtual machine monitor.

Virtual machine support for metered computer usage

Systems and methods are provided for delivering contextual advertising to a vehicle. An example system may include a profiler module executed by an onboard computing device of the vehicle, and configured to aggregate vehicle event data from a plurality of vehicle-based event sources, and to develop user profile data based on the vehicle event data. A communication agent may also be executed by the onboard computing device, and configured to transmit the user profile data to an advertising service executed on an advertising server via a communication network. The communication agent may also be configured to retrieve an advertisement from the advertising service. The advertisement may be selected based on content of the user profile data. The system may also include an interface module executed by the onboard computing device, and configured to present the advertisement via a display, and/or speaker associated with the onboard computing device.

Delivering contextual advertising to a vehicle

Network based just-in-time compilation based on A Priori knowledge of a set of disparate clients is disclosed. One embodiment comprises using a web service to register a device and store a device profile containing the capabilities of the device, receiving a request from the device to subscribe to a content service, and to create a client runtime for the device for a requested service corresponding to the device capabilities. In this way, the embodiment may send the client runtime to the device to allow the device to communicate with the content service through the web service.

Network based JIT on a priori knowledge of a set of disparate clients

Systems and methods are provided for linking a web identity and a portable device to provide web access to a user from a vehicle. An example system includes a presence agent that may be configured to validate the presence of the portable device in the vehicle by recognizing a device identifier saved on the portable device. After the presence of the portable device is validated, a security manager may receive a user identifier, and verify if the user identifier corresponds with a known user value. Then, the security manager may send a user identity secure proxy to a credential manager. The credential manager may be configured to receive the user identity secure proxy, and in response, pass one or more credentials to a computing device onboard the vehicle. The credentials may indicate that the user is authorized to access one or more web services from the computing device.

Linking web identity and access to devices

A hardware-based security module may contain executable code used to manage the electronic device in which the security module resides. Because the security module may have limited memory, a memory update process is used that allows individual blocks to be separately downloaded and verified. Verification data is sent in a header block prior to sending the individual data blocks.

Secure upgrade of firmware update in constrained memory

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