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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
May. 27, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
James A. Schwartz, Seattle, WA (US);
Arun U. Kishan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Richard K. Neves, Kirkland, WA (US);
David B. Probert, Woodinville, WA (US);
Hari Pulapaka, Redmond, WA (US);
Alain F. Gefflaut, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and apparatus for separately loading and managing foreground work and background work of an application. In some embodiments, a method is provided for use by an operating system executing on at least one computer. The operating system may identify at least one foreground component and at least one background component of an application, and may load the at least one foreground component for execution separately from the at least one background component. For example, the operating system may execute the at least one foreground component without executing the at least one background component. In some further embodiments, the operating system may use a specification associated with the application to identify at least one piece of computer executable code implementing the at least one background component.