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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2011
Suhail Khalid, Seattle, WA (US);
Alexander Corradini, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael A. Ziller, Kirkland, WA (US);
Ravi T. Rao, Redmond, WA (US);
David G. Thaler, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew J. Ritz, Sammamish, WA (US);
Suhail Khalid, Seattle, WA (US);
Alexander Corradini, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael A. Ziller, Kirkland, WA (US);
Ravi T. Rao, Redmond, WA (US);
David G. Thaler, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew J. Ritz, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Network communication and cost awareness techniques are described. In one or more implementations, functionality is exposed through one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) that is accessible to a plurality of applications of the computing device to perform network communication. Data is returned to one or more of the plurality of applications regarding a cost network used to perform the network communication.