A system for automatically implementing high-level instructions in a distributed application program, where the high-level instructions reflect the behavior of the distributed application program, includes at least a tools component. The tools component is used to write high-level instructions in the form of declara...

A system provides high availability electronic message forwarding. When an electronic message is communicated to a first server, a copy of the electronic message is maintained at a second server. The electronic message is maintained on both servers until the electronic message is successfully communicated to a third...

Embodiments are provided to automatically managing system downtime in a computer network. In one embodiment, an event is created in an application server to schedule a system downtime period for a web server. When the scheduled downtime occurs, the web server is automatically removed from the network and a downtime ...

Various aspects are disclosed herein for an architecture for online communal and connected experiences. This architecture can be embodied in an application running a host computing device, where the application provides functionalities such as finding modules on local devices or hosted on online services, launching ...

Computer-readable media and computerized methods for utilizing an awareness of video content within a media file to incorporate an advertisement therein are provided. Building the video-content awareness involves performing an offline authoring process to generate a trajectory. In particular, the offline authoring p...

Distributing and tracking electronic coupons based on proximity. Upon detecting recipients proximate to a computing device, one or more electronic coupons are selected and transmitted to the detected recipients. The transmittal occurs via a wireless connection in some embodiments. Coupon properties associated with t...

ABSTRACT VISUAL SEARCH AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL RESULTS Methods, systems, graphical user interfaces, and computer-readable media for visually searching and exploring a set of objects are provided. A computer system executes a method that generates three-dimensional representations or two-dimensional representations fo...

Protocol architecture for wiring media streams and specifying mixing behavior in a multipoint control unit. The protocol provides the capability to expose the core mixing algorithms to modification for mixing media without dealing with the functionality of the mixer itself (e.g., ports and IP specifics). The protoco...

Isolation of extension code by processes in an application is described. In an implementation, execution of one or more processes is managed that contain content received via a network by another process of a single application that includes the one or more processes. The management includes terminating the one or m...

Systems and methods of media optimization are disclosed herein. An operation command can be sent to a media device from a host device. The operation command can be indicative of an intent to perform an operation on the recording medium. A list of media device characteristics corresponding to media device resources c...

ABSTRACT INTERRUPTIBLE NAND FLASH MEMORY A NAND flash memory logical unit. The NAND flash memory logical unit includes a control circuit that responds to commands and permits program and/or erase commands to be interruptible by read commands. The control circuit includes a set of internal registers for performing t...

ABSTRACT DYNAMIC IMAGE PRESENTATION One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for efficiently organizing images in a display. A size of an image is scaled by an image scale factor, while an aspect ratio for the image is maintained, where the image scale factor comprises a combination of a first scale dist...

Scalable hosting of user solutions is provided. A system for hosting application software includes a local server, one or more remote servers, a configuration database and a content database. The local server includes a web front end module that processes a request from a client computer over the Internet to host ap...

Embodiments described herein are directed to generating a customized data viewer, where the viewer is configured to display data at any level in a data model. In one embodiment, a computer system receives a user request indicating that portions of data are to be displayed in a user-customized manner using a data vie...

Innovations for signaling state of a decoded picture buffer ("DPB") and reference picture lists ("RPLs"). In example implementations rather than rely on internal state of a decoder to manage and update DPB and RPLs state information about the DPB and RPLs is explicitly signaled. This permits a decoder to determine w...

Architecture for cell-based security on a per-user basis. A security model for this capability includes not only dimension level tables, but is extended to include cell level tables. The security model can include existing dimension tables, plus cell security tables that include a cell permissions table, a cell qual...

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for optimizing emulated fixed-function and programmable graphics operations are provided. Data comprising fixed function and programmable states for an image or scenario to be rendered is received. The data for the image is translated into operations. One or more optimiz...

A source device and a target device may endeavor to form a secure communication session whereby encrypted messages may be transmitted over an untrusted network, such as the internet. However, the exchange of many messages in the establishment of the communication session may involve considerable latency and computat...

A user data entry is received at a mobile communications device. After receiving the user data entry, user selections of a first application and a second application are received. In response to the user selections, the user data entry is routed to both the first application and the second application. Additionally,...

Feeds from cameras are better visualized by superimposing images based on the feeds onto map based on a two- or three-dimensional virtual map. For example, a traffic camera feed can be aligned with a roadway included in the map. Multiple videos can be aligned with roadways in the map and can also be aligned in time....

Embodiments described herein are directed to dynamically reconfiguring at least a portion of an operating software application. In one embodiment, a computer system receives an edit indicating that at least one portion of an operating software application is to be edited, where the edit includes changes that are to ...

Tools and techniques for providing multi-client collaboration to access and update structured data elements are disclosed. Client systems may present user interfaces that provide libraries of published data elements that are available for collaboration. The clients may request selected data elements, while referenci...

A project management resources scheduling user interface is provided in which resource information may be displayed in a condensed timeline for each resource over the duration of a project. Individual tasks or groups of tasks displayed in the project management resources scheduling view may be moved from one resourc...

A collection of multiple user credentials each associated with one of multiple different users is obtained at a device, and one or more of the multiple user credentials are verified. The collection of multiple user credentials is also compared to a threshold combination of user credentials to be satisfied to access ...

An approach is described for controlling access to a data item using one or more access graphs. The approach entails distributing a compact package of access-related information to a recipient that pertains to the access graphs. The recipient can use the access-related information to access the data item through the...

A method and a processing device are provided. A group of documents may be selected from multiple documents of a search result. Associations among the selected group of documents may be determined and indicated. An indication of ones of the associations that are of interest and/or others of the associations that are...

Security techniques and security mechanisms for wireless networks that transmit content such as advertisements. According to exemplary techniques, control messages comprising un requested content (e.g., advertisement data) may be transmitted in response to request from a client device, while in other exemplary techn...

Techniques to modify a document using a latent transfer surface are described. An apparatus may comprise a document editing subsystem comprising a transfer surface creation module operative to embed a latent transfer surface in the document. A transfer control module may be communicatively coupled to the transfer su...

SOCIAL NETWORK POWERED QUERY REFINEMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS Embodiments of the present invention enhance the search experience of a user by looking at the search history of one or more buddies to provide search enhancements to the user. Examples of search enhancements include an annotation or graphic adjacent to a ...

A webpage contains a canvas. The canvas contains a drawing that is editable within the webpage by a user of a client device and by other users who use other client devices to open webpages that include the canvas. While the webpage is open on the client device the drawing is dynamically updated to reflect edits made...

Techniques are disclosed to improve quality of images that may be blurred or underexposed. In one described implementation, a method includes providing two images of a same scene. The method determines a spatial coherence and color statistics of the two images. The determined color statistics and spatial coherence a...

The present invention is directed a logical consistency checker (LCC) working alone or in conjunction with a physical consistency checker (PCC) and/or a data reliability system (DRS) for a database files system of a hardware/software interface system. Logical data correction pertains to logical data corruptions for ...

Email tags are described. In embodiments email messages are received for distribution to client devices that correspond to respective recipients of the email messages. Email routing decisions are applied to route an email message to an email folder for a recipient of the email message where the email folder may incl...

A rules runtime engine for scheduling and concurrently processing of rules. The engine efficiently runs a large number of rules in a parallel fashion. This is accomplished by authoring rules in a rule definition language, passing these rules through the translator for communication to the runtime engine and, schedul...

Systems and methods for password protection are described. In one aspect, an asymmetric key pair is deterministically formed by combining a password and other data. The public key of the asymmetric key pair is exported to an external device. The private key of the asymmetric key pair is used to effect subsequent aut...

Command driven web site browsing with web page command interpretation. As a part of web page command interpretation a web page (105) is displayed having a field (106) for accepting user input text. It is determined whether the user input text is a command. A specific application (140) is selected from a plurality of...

Techniques are provided for managing cache metadata that maps addresses on a storage medium (e.g., disk) to corresponding addresses on a cache device. Cache metadata may be stored in a hierarchical data structure. Only a subset of the levels of the hierarchy may be loaded to memory, thus reducing the cache metadata"...

Example embodiments provide for keeping an HTTP reply flow for a communication open such that portions of an overall response corresponding to a single request may be sent across the HTTP reply flow. As the various portions of the overall response become available at a corresponding service endpoint, the service app...

A software program for creating features for use with a plurality of media objects in a sequence. The program comprises a feature component specifying a feature having parameters affecting at least one variable aspect of the feature. An indicator component identifies a position of the specified feature relative to t...

In accordance with this invention, a system, method, and computer-readable medium that aggregates the knowledge base of a plurality of antivirus software applications are provided. User mode applications, such as antivirus software applications, gain access to file system operations through a common information mode...

Multiple devices are identified in a network along with connection information associated with the multiple devices. The connection information associated with the multiple devices is converted into hierarchical structure and communication links between the multiple devices are identified.

A method and apparatus determine a channel response for an alternative sensor using an alternative sensor signal and an air conduction microphone signal. The channel response is then used to estimate a clean speech value using at least a portion of the alternative sensor signal.

Disclosed is a mechanism for securely provisioning a client by authenticating that client during a dynamic configuration process. Rather than relying on post-configuration authentication schemes, the present invention combines security and dynamic configuration into a unified scheme. Any client device attempting to ...

A licensor receives a request from a requestor including an identifier identifying the requestor and rights data associated with digital content, where the rights data lists at least one identifier and rights associated therewith. The licensor thereafter locates the identifier of the requestor in a directory, and lo...

Alerts are transmitted to subscribers to an alerts service in response to events that occur within a gaming environment. Communication within the gaming environment is limited to specific game consoles and the gaming service. A subscriber to the alert notification service can be alerted when a friend joins the gamin...

Described are embodiments which allow token based file operations. The client may request a s0pecial offload file operation that is formatted according to a file access protocol. The file operation may be an offload read operation or an offload write operation. In an offload read operation the client requests that d...

Software is licensed for use on a particular computing device, such as a gaming console or a multimedia console. An unlocking code is provided from a distribution service to the computing device (either directly or via a user), which in turn, unlocks the appropriate software or portion of software for use with the a...

In order to provide a more efficient persistent storage device, one or more long-term storage media are included along with a non-volatile memory. In one embodiment, one portion of the non-volatile memory is used as a write buffer and a read cache for writes and reads to the long-term storage media. Interfaces are p...

The present invention provides for facilitating synchronization in a data source/data destination environment using data replicas. When a plurality of destinations request synchronization with a source, a first destination selected for synchronization is processed such that differences between the first destination ...

A system and method for processing images utilizing varied feature class weights is provided. A Computer system associates two or more images with a set of feature class data, such as color and texture data. The computer system assigns a set of processing weights for each of the feature classes. The two or more imag...

In one embodiment, a computer system generates a view of entities associated with varying data types for presentation on a generic viewer. The entities and data types have relationships as defined in a corresponding schema. The schema is stored as data in a repository with the data types. The computer system receive...

ABSTRACT MEMORY TRAINING VIA VISUAL JOURNAL A system that can enhance cognitive ability by viewing sequences of images captured during an event is disclosed. For example, the innovation can employ captured event sequences to improve failing memories in patients with a diagnosed memory condition such as acquired br...

* Various embodiments develop (and consume), along with rendered print job data, metadata that describes certain characteristics of the print job data. This i metadata can be provided, along with the rendered data, from a client device to a print server and can allow the print server to ascertain the ...

A facility for evaluating a spreadsheet cell is described. The facility reads a function call stored in a spreadsheet cell. The function call specifies an arbitrary geometric path and an operation to be performed on the specified path. The facility performs the specified operation on the specified path, and attribut...

A system and method relating to creation of object(s) in an object hierarchy structure is provided. An object generator that in response to a command to expand a node/object provides a initiator node that facilitates generation of a new object within the object hierarchy upon expansion of the node. A display compone...

A mechanism for placing a telephone call (241) while at the same time communicating context (244) (e.g., subject, importance and/or nature) of the telephone call. The caller uses a mechanism on a user interface (400) to instruct a caller computing system (210) to place a telephone call to a callee computing system. ...

An invention is described for securely deploying a provable identity for virtual machines (VMs) in a dynamic environment. In an embodiment a fabric controller instructs a VM host to create a VM and sends that VM a secret. The fabric controller sends that same secret (or a second secret such as the private key of a p...

The present invention enforces digital rights within the confines of a content license by validating an entity certificate. Cryptographic information within a entity certificate is utilized to unlock protected content and authenticate the entity certificate. The entity certificate includes personal credentials, whic...

A method, computer readable medium and system are provided which generate a model driven form user interface to represent an application model. The method includes selecting which of multiple different logical form types to use to generate the form user interface to represent the application model. The method also i...

An instant messaging system provides instant message communication between computers, including multi-user computers. The system provides multiple concurrent instant message user logins on a multi-user computer, one of the multiple concurrent instant message user logins being a registered buddy of a user of a secon...

Adware and viruses are examples of objects that may be embedded in a webpage or linked to a webpage. When such an object is detected to be associated with a webpage loading on a browser, an analysis may be performed to determine a trust level for the object. The object may be blocked in accordance with the trust lev...

A location service and method provides a location aware computing device that is extensible by allowing different types of location providers operate with the service. The method includes receiving a request for a location context, acquiring data associated with a current location from one or more location detection...

A computing system in which devices communicate wirelessly as secondary users in a band assigned to primary users. The computers communicate using new signals developed to reduce disruption to primary users of the band. The new signals may be produced by sensing, or otherwise determining, signals used by primary use...

A resource of a first organization provides access thereto to a requestor of a second organization. A first administrator of the first organization issues a first credential to a second administrator of the second organization, including policy that the second administrator may issue a second credential to the reque...

ABSTRACT CONTROLLING THE DELEGATION OF RIGHTS The delegation of rights may be controlled in a number of manners. In an example implementation, a delegation authority assertion is formulated with a delegator principal, a delegatee principal, a verb phrase, a resource, and a delegation-directive verb. In another exam...

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and program products for translating declarative models. Embodiments of the present invention facilitate processing declarative models to perform various operations on such as, for example, application deployment,  updates, application control such as start and stop...

The present invention leverages iterative transformations of search query strings along with statistics extracted from search query logs and/or web data to provide possible alternative spellings for the search query strings. This provides a spell checking means that can be influenced to provide individualized sugges...

A mobile device includes an air conduction microphone and an alternative sensor that provides an alternative sensor signal indicative of speech. A communication interface permits the mobile device to communicate directly with other mobile devices.

A method of operating an access point (AP) configured to support multiple pre-shared keys. Each client device associated with the AP is provisioned with a key. To authenticate the client device, the AP determines which pre-shared key (PSK) of the multiple supported pre-shared keys, if any, matches information includ...

A system for capturing time and expense information over a net and for processing the information into a project accounting system has a projecting accounting system adapted to store time and expense data associated with a project. A user interface provides a from accessible over a network by a user via a browser. T...

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for assigning power management classifications to a process transitioning a computing environment into a connected standby state based upon power management classifications assigned to processes and transitioning the computing environment from the connected standby ...

Embodiments of a media user interface are presented herein.

A system facilitates the search engine to search for pieces of information in various databases and application documents without the need to know the specific protocols to communicate with the various databases and application documents, such as Microsoft Excel documents. Despite the multitude of possible prot...

Described herein is an implementation that reduces the battery consumption of an energy-constrained computing device that is capable of communicating over a wireless network. As conditions and circumstances warrant, the implementation selects one of multiple radios (e.g., two)-with each having a unique combination ...

Service provisioning tasks can be performed to provision or deprovision services for users reconcile overlapping services and apply effective service properties. A service can be provisioned by receiving a request to provision the service for a user reconciling new service properties with current service properties ...

A mobile telephone automatically establishes communication with a system via a short-range wireless network. When communication is established, the mobile telephone user is automatically logged in to the system. The system can then apply personalized settings and/or provide access to personalized services based...

Architecture that identifies and learns repeated user behavior (habits) related to routes of travel and points of interest. Once learned the habits of an individual can be used to make an algorithm more efficient and hence the user experience of an application more effective and enjoyable. The capability to more acc...

The present invention provides for an interface between two seemingly incompatible and different content protection systems. Accordingly, protected content may be transferred between the respective security kernels of a conditional access (CA) and digital rights management (DRM) system, while maintaining security of...

A system and methods of language identification of natural language text are presented. The system includes stored expected character counts and variances for a list of characters found in a natural language. Expected character counts and variances are stored f...

A system that facilitates performance of a focused search over a collection of sites comprises a subweb that corresponds to a topic and/or user charateristic(s)that are of interest to the user. The subweb includes a plurality of domains and/or paths (e.g.sites) that are related to the topic and/or the user character...

Semantic rich objects for a dynamic user experience. One or more actions in the process are represented by semantic rich objects (SROs) for exposing functionality of the process. Each of the SROs includes metadata associated with an action and an execution environment therefor. In response to an interactive gesture ...

An image such as a depth image of a scene may be received, observed, or captured by a device and a model of a user in the image may be generated. The model may then be adjusted to mimic one or more movements by the user. For example, the model may be a skeletal model having joints and bones that may be adjusted into...

A collation creation process is provided to automatically establish collation support for sorted linguistic data. The sorted linguistic data is examined to determine if it matches an existing collation support. If not. a new collation support is created for the sorted linguistic data. The provider of the sorted ling...

In at least some embodiments a web browser user interface is designed to enable site branding and functionality. Specifically websites can provide content that can be utilized in a control layout area near the top of the web browser user interface to reinforce branding through the use of color and/or a site provided...

Abstracting access control policy from access check mechanisms allows for richer expression of policy, using a declarative model with semantics, than what is permitted by the access check mechanisms. Further, abstracting access control policy allows for uniform expression of policy across multiple access check mech...

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An edge-based gateway (102) is employed to provide communication data routing and filtering via a plurality of communication mechanisms (108 and 110), selected independently of central authority. The communication mechanisms (108 and 110) include POTS, cellular networks and Internet. Each user (112) can constrain th...

A change tracking technique is used maintain the consistency of the source data with the destination data during transactional replication. A first functional characteristic is that it is a transactional database replication technique. A second characteristic is that the technique supports an incremental tracking of...

A method and system of transferring boot files from a server to a client having a pre-installation environment. The server authenticates the client. The client authenticates the server. The boot files are transferred from the authenticated server to the authenticated client the boot files may be authenticated by the...

Many different users may access, revise and update the same shared object simultaneously through several different transports. Clients may communicate asynchronously by accessing the shared object through a physical server. Clients may also communicate synchronously by accessing the shared object through a peer-to-p...

Described is a mechanism for allowing new functionality for an object to be expressed as a property that is not built into the class from which the object derives. More specifically, the mechanism associates properties in one class with another class. A computer-readable medium, that includes an object having a prop...

Methods and systems are provided for presenting a plurality of shared calendars in a single electronic display frame or window where each of the plurality of shared calendars is displayed in a common view mode relative to other displayed shared calendars. Users may select one or more shared calendars to be displayed...

The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates management and navigation of various data objects by making use of a unique time-line based navigation tool. In particular, objects can organized into a plurality of bands based on their respective subject matter. Each band can be created to ...

An apparatus for communicating with a handheld device (e.g., a cellular telephone) is provided herein. A protective shroud is configured to enclose the handheld device and protect it against incidents that commonly cause damage to handheld devices. Integral to the protective shroud is at least one of an input compon...

An increasing amount of the world s content resides on the web in a form targeted to web browser rendering. It may be advantageous to utilize this web content within non web based rich client applications because such rich client applications may provide robust features and/or interactions that web based platforms l...

Techniques and tools for selectively using multiple entropy models in adaptive coding and decoding are described herein. For example, for multiple symbols, an audio encoder selects an entropy model from a first model set that includes multiple entropy models. Each of the multiple entropy models includes a model s...

The present invention provides a means for dynamically adding virtual devices to a virtual computing environment. The system described in the invention includes a virtualized computing system with a manifest, which further includes device lists and an external device directory, which provides users of the virtualize...

A method in a consumer system for determining whether an application is misbehaving, the method comprising: when installing an application , estabishing a limit on  services of a service of a services of a service provider that the application is authorized to use; adn under control a runtime environment, providin...

Membership information for participating computer systems participating in a multi-party conferencing session is distributed by intermittently exchanging link databases with one or more neighbor computer systems. A link database includes one or more link state records, each link state record identifying a participat...

A system and methods for service discovery and publication are disclosed. Application programs write requests for service discovery, publication, and subscription to a service discovery application programming interface. The service discovery application programming interface invokes one or more lower-level protocol...

Configuration of user interfaces is described. In an implementation, a method includes receiving a query from a device. The query is for a user interface (UI) from a client. A processing of the request determines whether the execution by the client of the control function is permitted. The processing is performed at...

A method for creating an archive protection plan for archiving a backup of data is provided. An indication of an archive data protection kind and an archive data protection duration are received. In response to receiving the archive data protection kind and the archive data protection duration, an archive scheme is ...

Described is labeling a video session with metadata representing a recognized person or object, such as to identify a person corresponding to a recognized face when that face is being shown during the video session. The identification may be made by overlaying text on the video session, e.g., the person"s name and/o...

The driving of an audio device that supports two or more audio modes is accomplished by associating a first physical device object of an audio device with a first device identifier, the first physical device object representing a first audio mode enumerated by a bus enumerator; associating a second physical device o...

ABSTRACT WEB-BASED COLLOCATION ERROR PROOFING Collocation errors can be automatically proofed using local and network-based corpora, including the Web. For example, according to one illustrative method, one or more collocations from a text sample are compared with a corpus such as the content of the Web. The colloc...

An exemplary global listings format (GLF) is metadata for electronically transferring multimedia programming content and electronic program guide information.The GLF metadata specifies a self-referential data structure having a self-consistency mechanism comprising interlocking and crosslocking data elements.The sel...

Instant messaging with search is described. One or more techniques oflKe described techniques may be employed to provide a search during an instant messaging session, the results of which may then be shared between participants in the instant messaging session.

Maintaining DNS records. A computing network system includes a local Domain Name Service (DNS) server connected to one or more local clients or resources at a local branch office in an enterprise network. The local DNS server advertises to the local clients or resources at the local branch office that the DNS server...

A method and system for rendering a desktop on a computer using a composited desktop model operating system are disclosed. A composited desktop window manager, upon receiving content information from application programs, draws the window to a buffer memory for future reference, and takes advantage of advanced graph...

Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platform-independent framework for document formats that ...

A method and computer-readable medium convert the text of a word and a user's pronunciation of the word into a phonetic description to be added to a speech recognition lexicon. Initially, a plurality of at least two possible phonetic descriptions are generated. One phonetic description is formed by decoding a speech...

ABSTRACT CONSULTATIVE CALL TRANSFER USING NON-VOICE CONSULTATION MODES Consultation architecture that allows a call assistant to use modes of consultation with the call recipient other than voice calls or vocal contact. The receptionist can place the incoming call (or message) on hold and send an instant message ...

The present invention provides for a digital rights management system with a centralized domain service capable of creating and managing membership criteria for joining a domain in accordance with business rules defined by ac content owner. A domain identification is created that allows a content provider to uniquel...

Strategies are described for propagating and responding to announcements within an environment having pre-established social groups, such as pre-established instant messenger social groups. More specifically, a member within a group can create an announcement, whereupon the announcement becomes associated with the m...

A system for providing system level notifications in a multimedia console has a notification system application native to the multimedia console which subscribes to all notification events generated by the application manager of the multimedia console. Through an application programming interface (API), a game devel...

The subject invention provides for an intelligent system and method that facilitates a more robust classification system in connection with spam prevention. The invention involves holding back some messages that appear to be questionable, suspicious, or untrustworthy from classification (as spam or good). In particu...

A printer connection administration/maintenance framework is disclosed. The framework is incorporated into a networked client machine. The framework maintains printer connections, in a network comprising printers, a directory comprising an enumeration of network entities and configuration definitions assignable t...

A computer system that facilitates presentation of-ata to a user. A search engine component receives and executes queries on behalf of a user. Results of the query are received and analyzed by an analysis component that filters and organizes the results as a function of relevancy of the data to the user and associat...

A wireless access point in a wireless network that may be adapted to transmit data indicating its location. The location data may be embedded in a control message or announcement transmission transmitted by the wireless access point, or other message conventionally used to broadcast network characteristics necessary...

Users attempting to join a conference facilitated by an enhanced communication system employing a network communication protocol such as SIP and having a distributed architecture are enabled to request the conference through a numeric conference identifier. The conference directory identifier is assigned to an assoc...

Methods and systems for reducing unsolicited electronic messages through variable pricing and conditional redemption are provided. Each ticket may have an associated value that is specified by a sender of an electronic message. This is referred to as "variable pricing." A ticket in a message acts as a guarantee that...

In an exemplary device implementation, a device includes: a connection migrator that is configured to migrate connections away from the device; the connection migrator capable of precipitating a compilation of protocol state for a connection across a protocol stack; the connection migrator adapted to aggregate the c...

A method and system to share objects that may reside on different machines. These objects can be accessedd and shared using a computer network such as the Internet. The objects can comprise computer programming objects, that may include but are not limited to, application programming intercfaces (APIs), programmin...

An embodiment of the current invention is directed to presenting a preview of search results for a suggested search. A search engine query is received. One or more search results are generated. One or more suggested, search terms are generated. A search engine results page is generated, including the one or more sea...

COMBINING VIRUS CHECKING AND REPLICATION FILTRATION ABSTRACT Data in backup systems can be effectively protected against viruses, even if definitions for certain viruses are found after infected data have been backed up to a backup server. In one implementation, a combined filter that includes antivirus and replic...

A motion-sensing remote control is described. In an embodiment, a television remote control can include various sensors that sense a motion of the device. The television remote control also includes an integrated circuit that receives a motion signal corresponding to the motion from the sensors and converts the moti...

A framework for creating modular web pages. The framework enables the development of modular, customized, and personalized web applications including web portals and web page. The framework includes an extensible part base class and an extensible zone base class. Part controls that derive from the part base class in...

The universal input device provides a common user interface for a variety of different computing platforms including printed documents. Using the present system, one may use the universal input device to control various computing devices as well as capture handwritten electronic ink and have the electronic ink be as...

A computing device includes a processing unit, and a memory with instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to create: a document processing module that processes the creation and editing of document content; and a metadata processing module that generates, monitors and stores...

A method and system for providing context of a caller to a callee when a call is initiated is provided. The context system executing on the calling device collects context for the call. The calling device initiates the call and sends a message to the callee that includes the context. Upon receiving the message, the ...

An error correction system determines a level of error correction protection to apply to a frame of video data to be transmitted by a sending endpoint to a receiving endpoint based on the predicted impact of packet loss as well as the importance of the frame based on inter-frame dependencies, frame size, packet loss...

A system and method for presenting a plurality of items to a user with a contextual display. A computer system is provided which includes a data store. At least a portion of the items in the data store include one or more field entries. An explorer interacts with the data store, selects items having one or more desi...

ABSTRACT SMART CARD TERMINAL SIDE DATA AND MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK A data and management framework of a smart card terminal functions to provide interoperability between the smart card terminal and a smart card, and in particular between applications of the terminal and the card. An application program interface (API...

The present invention utilizes generic and user-specific of handwriting samples to provide adaptive handwriting recognition with a minimum level of user-specific enrollment data. By allowing generic and user-specific classifiers to facilitate in a recognition process, the features of a specific user"s handwriting ca...

A spurious timeout (STO) response allows a sending device to conservatively adjust congestion state parameters and maintain the packet flow, after detection of the STO. Since occurrence of an STO may be accompanied by data loss, the STO response couples the spurious timeout and the loss event by maintaining a value ...

An object model allows code to be developed using a programming environment to access the functionality of an application, in a word processing application, for example. The object model may be used to manipulate one or more data bindings in an application. Code may also be developed using a programming environment ...

Various techniques and tools for encoding and decoding (e.g., in a video encoder/decoder) binary information (e.g., skipped macroblock information) are described. In some embodiments, the binary information is arranged in a bit plane, and the bit plane is coded at the picture/frame layer. The encoder and decoder pro...

In a computerized system, a sending computer system and recipient computer system exchange an interchange format message in a resource-efficient manner. For example, a transformation writer at the sending computer system selects and transforms only one or few of a plurality of units of the message at the time. ...

A system and method for securely transferring computer-readable objects across a remote boundary is provided. The method decomposes any type of object into a hierarchy of sub-components based on a list of known object types. Each sub-component either corresponds to a known object type or an unknown object type. The ...

A system to perform transacted remote file operations over a network includes a client and a server. The client and server each include a transaction manager (TM) and a file system (FS). The client also includes a redirector (RDR), while the server includes a server application (SRV). The RDR receives a request for ...

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE RANKING FUNCTIONS USING AN INCREMENTALLY-UPDATABLE. MODIFIED NAIVE BAYESIAN QUERY CLASSIFIER Methods of ranking documents on a network using an incrementally-updatable system are disclosed. Computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for performing a m...

A server provides Web responses that can include content from data tables in a database. The server maintains a cache (e.g., in system memory) that can store content (including content from data tables) so as to increase the efficiency of subsequently providing the same content to satisfy client Web requests. The se...

The universal input device provides a common user interface for a variety of different computing platforms including printed documents. Using the present system, one may use the universal input device to control various computing devices as well as capture handwritten electronic ink and have the electronic ink be as...

Mechanisms for rendering an object on a portion of a display that includes pixel sub-components for each pixel. The pixel sub-components are striped along a certain direction (e.g.. vertically or horizontally). The computing system determines (400) that the object has spatial frequency dominance in a direction wh...

An electric boosting system includes a plurality of molybdenum electrode bars for generating electric resistance heat of the molten glass, and a power supply connected to the molybdenum electrode bars to apply thereto a power needed for operation of the molybdenum electrode bars. The molybdenum electrode bars are pr...

A system and process for controlling printing of a print job by a printer. A print request is sent from a client to the printer. The request includes a unique source identifier for the print job; a type of the document or documents that make up the print job; an source address where a plurality of document resources...

In one exemplary implementation, strategies are described which transmit notification information from a first device (e.g., a media server) to a second device (e.g., a remote media device). Based on this notification information, a recipient-user can use the first device to generate an event pertaining to the notif...

Software-based audio rendering is described. The software-based audio rendering may also be synchronization to an external clock and/or a video rendering clock in some implementations. A particular implementation includes computer readable media configured to measure a first drift rate between an external clock and ...

Automatic conversation techniques are described. An apparatus may comprise a computing device having an incoming message module operative to receive an incoming message, a conversation identification module communicatively coupled to the incoming message module, the conversation identification module operative to de...

A network security module, interposed between a computing device and a network such that all network activities between the computing device and the network pass through the network security module, for protecting the computing device from an identified security threat on the network, the network security module com...

An extensible wireless framework for connecting to a wireless network is provided. The extensible wireless framework includes a network roaming service with a registration component and a network service component. The registration component registers extensible service modules and extensible drivers for providing n...

ABSTRACT DRM ASPECTS OF PEER-TO-PEER DIGITAL CONTENT DISTRIBUTION Aspects of peer-to-peer distribution of digital content items protected by predetermined intellectual property rights are described. The digital content items are distributed between a source communication device operated by a source entity and a pro...

A word processor including a native XML file format is provided. The well formed XML file fully represents the word-processor document, and fully supports 100% of word-processor"s rich formatting. There are no feature losses when saving the word-processor documents as XML. A published XSD file defines all the rules ...

A first exemplary media implementation includes processor-executable instructions that direct a device to perform actions including: creating a session identifier (210) using a host identifier (214); and formulating a host session initiation message with the created session identifier. An exemplary device im...

Many different users may access, revise and update the same shared object simultaneously through several different transports. Revisions to the shared object are automatically synchronized such that all users can view the revisions to the shared object. Conflicting revisions are reconciled and merged into a current ...

A system that facilitates composition of schema mappings. A general algorithm is provided for composing a broad class of mappings, where one or both mappings are not functions, such as constraints between two schemas and the inverse of functions. A composition component performs composition on schema mappings of dis...

Designing and executing a workflow having flow-based and constraint-based regions. A user selects one or more activities to be part of a constraint-based region. Each constraint-based region has a constraint associated therewith. The workflow is executed by executing the flow-based region and the constraint-based re...

Exemplary embodiments disclosed herein may include a method and system for creating pair-wise security keys, comprising receiving an identity key from a website, generating a master key, creating a pair-wise symmetric key or asymmetric key pair by utilizing an encryption function of the identity key and the master k...

A method and system to generate a grammar adapted for use by a speech recognizer includes receiving a representation of an alphanumeric expression. For instance, the representation can take the form of a regular expression or a mask. The grammar is generated based on the representation.

Methods are described for using collaboration of neighboring wireless devices to enable location of disconnected wireless devices and rogue wireless access points. A central server computes the locations of the neighboring clients and uses those locations to estimate the location of a disconnected client. These tech...

Electronic devices often need to synchronize data themselves. A synchronization engine includes a database that supports the tracking of changed data, filtering, and recovery synchronization. Data changes that occur in the electronic devices are tracked for data synchronization. Data may be filtered by the database ...

Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and media for, among other thigns, enabling an advertisement to interact with a software application. This can include receiving advertising content that is to be hosted by a software application. The advertising content can include an advertisement to be presen...

A process and system for processing a video to reliably identify a position in the video. The video position identification process and system use content-based video timeless. These timeless are composed of an ordered sequence of video "fingerprints" or "signatures" of video content that exploit the spatial charact...

Methods, systems, and apparatus are provided for viewing and managing collaboration data from within the context of a shared electronic document. A document editing pane is displayed for editing the shared document. In conjunction with the document editing pane; a collaboration pane is displayed for displaying the c...

ABSTRACT AUXILIARY PERIPHERAL FOR ALERTING A COMPUTER OF AN INCOMING CALL An auxiliary call control component is coupled to a computing system alerts the computing system of an incoming call in instances where the computing system is not capable of processing the incoming call. When the auxiliary call control comp...

A design tool includes a service definition model to enable abstract description of distributed computing systems and distributed applications. The design tool also includes a schema to dictate how functional operations within the service definition model are to be specified. The functional operations include desig...

A method and system provide a speech input mode which dynamically reports partial semantic parses, while audio captioning is still in progress. The semantic prases can be evaluated with an outcome immediately reported back to the user. The net effect is that task conventionally performed in the system turn are now c...

Architecture that synchronizes a job to shared notebook eliminating the need for user intervention and guaranteeing that only one instance of the notebook client performs the task. A job tracking component creates and maintains tracking information of jobs processed against shared notebook information. A scheduling ...

Systems and methods are described that facilitate learning a Bayesian network with decision trees via employing a learning algorithm to learn a Bayesian network with complete tables. The learning algorithm can comprise a search algorithm that can reverse edges in the Bayesian network with complete tables in order to...

The present invention provides a system or method for displaying rich presentation taskbar buttons for a corresponding application. In one example, the rich presentation taskbar button may receive content from an application through a programming interface. The present invention further relates to a system and metho...

A system and method for managing the installation of files on a computing device are provided. A client computing device obtains installation information identifying a version of a baseline installation component stored on the client computing device. The installation information also includes an installation compon...

ABSTRACT ENABLING WEB ANALYTICS FOR INTERACTIVE WEB APPLICATIONS |0038| A method is provided for tracking user-interaction with an interactive web application associated with a web page. The method includes providing one or more modified HTML elements for use with the web page. The default behavior of the HTML. el...

An expansion device is provided for expanding the functionality of a mobile electronic device while in a mobile mode and/or in a desktop mode. The expansion device may be a media slice that provides multimedia functionality to a mobile electronic device. The media slice may be configured to receive an electro-mechan...

A protocol negotiation platform permits a computer or other node lying outside of a security-enabled domain to negotiate a supported security protocol with a server or other node within that domain . Active Directory TM, Kerberos and other secure network technologies permit agent or nodes within a domain to commu...

The universal input device provides a common user interface for a variety of different computing platforms including printed documents. Using the present system, one may use the universal input device to control various computing devices as well as capture handwritten electronic ink and have the electronic ink be as...

Embodiments of the invention provide a method and system for automatically instrumenting a set of web documents, such as web pages, as well as embedding structures that present advertising content via the web pages. The instrumenting automatically embeds tags that enable usage information associated with the web doc...

Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platform-independent framework for document formats that ...

Collecting application execution data by a push service and targeting application programs with advertisements based on the collected data. Statistics such as activity, popularity, and frequency of execution for each of the application programs are generated based on the collected data. The statistics are matched to...

A method and system for offloading I/O processing from a first computer to a second computer, using RDMA-capable network interconnects, are disclosed. The method and system include a client on the first computer communicating over an RDMA connection to a server on the second computer by way of a lightweight input/ou...

The present invention extends to methods, systems, computer program products, and data structures for efficiently storing and accessing electronic messages. Generally, electronic messages are created and transformed in accordance with an electronic message schema hierarchy (150). Electronic messages can be created a...

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for assigning power management classifications to a process transitioning a computing environment into a connected standby state based upon power management classifications assigned to processes and transitioning the computing environment from the connected standby ...

Priority binding enables a one-to-many mapping of a target to a source without requiring complex code development by the specification of one or more binding statements. During runtime, these bindings are evaluated. The highest priority binding that evaluates successfully is executed, controlling the two-way transfe...

A method and system is provided for instrumenting a program by optimizing prode insertion. The number of prode insertions into instrumented code is reduced by providing optimal prode insertion points. The control flow of the code is analyzed along with the arc and block relationships to build a post-dominator tree. ...

A firewall acts as transparent gateway to a server within a private network by initiating an unsolicited challenge to client to provide authentication credentials. After receiving the client’s credentials, the firewall verifies the authentication credentials and establishes a secure channel for accessing the server....

Filtering data packets in a manner that promotes efficient flow of data through a communication path. A filter stack includes one or more filter instances that may filter data packets that pass through the filter stack. The filter stack is associated with one or more protocol stacks that function in communication pa...

A computer-implemented method and system are provided for supporting hardware devices that are connected to the computer via a network. The existence of any hardware device connected on the network is detected in the method. Information descriptive of the connected device is then obtained, either from the device or ...

A system, a method and a program product provide access to variable-length data segments on a sequential access storage medium using an iterative search for a specified data offset based un estimates of media offsets. The data is recorded in variable-length data segments aligned to predetermined alignment intervals...

A method and apparatus for selecting a view mode from aplurality of view modes and for selecting a setting within the selected view mode for displaying one or more items in a screen display.  A single user input    indicates both a selected view mode and a selected setting within that view mode. The input mechani...

In accordance with one or more aspects, a license for content is retrieved, the license having been previously embedded in the content. A requested action is allowed to be performed with the content only if a standalone license, or both a leaf license and a root license, indicate that the action with the content is ...

A data protection application if provided. The data protection application includes a job for providing protection to data.  That job contains a plurality of tasks configured to perform the job. Also included is a task executor for managing the progress of each of the plurality of tasks.

A system and method for generating a 2D transition between a first media object and a second media object. A 3D model is defined corresponding to a desired 2D transition pattern. A graphics processing unit (GPU) or a set of instructions generates a transition between the first media object and the second media objec...

ABSTRACT WIRELESS SUPPORT FOR PORTABLE MEDIA PLAYER DEVICES A portable media player device is capable of operating in a wireless network. The wireless portable media player device can bootstrap and synchronize with an ad hoe network with low power consumption. Neighbor portable media player deuces in an ad hoe net...

Modifying a componentized workflow model during execution of the workflow. Each step of the workflow is modeled as an activity that has metadata to describe design time aspects, compile time aspects, and runtime aspects of the workflow step. A user selects and arranges the activities to create the workflow via user ...

The present invention provides a system by which entities interact with one another in a manufacturing channel. The entities (such as a seller and customer) use a messaging system to perform status inquiry and functional processing steps with respect to data stored at the resource management system of the other. ...

A system and method are provided for modeling structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data all within a single instance of a user defined type (UDT) within a database store. In particular, the XML data model is extended to fields of a UDT. As a result, the properties of the XML data model — such as document or...

Systems and methods for transitioning between alternate views when rendering A/V content in a computing system are provided. In various embodiments, a "Now Playing" state is exposed to a user experiencing media on a media device via a user interface, wherein the Now Playing" state has a plurality of associated "Now ...

Images and/or collections of images may be rendered in a way that adapts to ambient circumstances and that may enhance a user s perception of experience quality. When an image is requested for display it is determined whether a rendered version of the image exists. If no rendered version of the image exists then an ...

The claimed method and system is an API set to support a multicast programming model for implementation on top of a service oriented framework, specifically a service oriented messaging system.

A derivative network DNA component and a raw network component are included in the network DNA. The raw network DNA component can be acquired from a local source or a remote source. The derivative network DNA component can be produced in accordance with a specification of the derivative network DNA component. The ne...

DRAGGING AND DROPPING OBJECTS BETWEEN LOCAL AND REMOTE MODULES ABSTRACT The present invention extends to métiers, systems, and computer program products for dragging and dropping objects between local and remote modules Terminal server components simulate the functionality of participants in drag and drag operat...

Runtime polymorphism may be enabled with metadata that is usable for casting objects to casted objects. In an exemplary media implementation, processor-executable instructions cause operations including: discover at least one type of an objectt while in a runtime environment; and create a casted object from the obje...

Loyalty offer techniques are described. In one or more implementations data is received from a plurality of merchants via a network the data describing transactions for goods or services initiated at physical locations of respective said merchants and including identifiers that uniquely identify mobile communication...

Network connection information is requested by a wireless wide area network device via the internet. Such information may include configuration information, data roaming partner information, and/or cost information regarding roaming partner connection and/or a subscriber plan related to the wireless wide area networ...

Trusted e mail communication may be provided. A message source organization may be validated. When a message is received from the validated message source organization for a recipient organization a determination may be made as to whether the recipient organization supports an attribution data extension. If so the m...

An efficient interrupt system for a multi-processor computer. Devices interrupt a processor or group of processors using pre-defined message address and data payload communicated with a memory write transaction over a PCI, PCI-X, or PCI Express bus. The devices are configured with messages that each targets a proces...

Systems and methods for Just-My-Code(JMC) debugging are described. In one aspect, debugging probes are automatically inserted into respective programming constructs representing interesting code. The debugging probes are insered during computer computer-program compiling operations that generate native code. The nat...

A Web browser of a computing device downloads or otherwise obtains a file. File information identifying the file is obtained and is sent to a remote reputation service. Client information identifying aspects of the computing device can also optionally be sent to the remote reputation service. In response to the file...

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for decorating a display environment. In one embodiment, a user may decorate a display environment by making one or more gestures, using voice commands, using a suitable interface device, and/or combinations thereof. A voice command can be detected for user selection of an ar...

ABSTRACT SECURITY AUTHORIZATION QUERIES In an example implementation, a bifurcated security scheme has a first level that does not allow usage of negations and a second level that does permit usage of negations. In another example implementation, an authorization query table maps respective resource-specific opera...

Techniques are disclosed to improve quality of images that may be blurred or underexposed (e.g., because of camera shake, taken in dim lighting conditions, or taken of high action scenes). The techniques may be implemented in a digital camera, digital video camera, or a digital camera capable of capturing video. In...

A computer assigns networks to network zones based on predefined properties for each zone and/or the properties of the networks. An application program installed on the computer provides the computer with preference information that indicates the network zone whose network policies or properties are best suited for ...

The present invention relates to a synchronization system that utilizes a synchronization wizard ("PullSync") residing on a first computer device to request and receive (or "pull") data from a second computer device. The first computer device (the "syncer") copies files from shared folders on the second computer dev...

Described is a protocol by which wireless network communication devices comprising peer nodes (such as a computer system and an access point) cooperatively exchange information about RF interference detected in the network. The protocol administers the exchange of formatted control data corresponding to the detected...

Print plug-in isolation is described. In embodiment(s), a print system input can be received at a print system, and the print system input can be redirected from the print system to an isolation module that isolates one or more print plug-ins from the print system. The print system input can be processed at the isol...

An application instance identifier is employed with various systems and methods in order to provide a requestor with continuous access to a resource when operating in a client clustered environment. A requestor residing on a first client in may attempt to access a resource. The first client sends a request to access...

A role based graphical user interface (UI) is used for receiving user input for entry/editing relating to projects/tasks using a limited display device. Functional components are grouped into logical hubs that may be displayed within the user interface. The groupings of the components are based on a role of a user (...

Techniques involving the establishment of content navigational pattern direction based on directionally desired or intuitive gestures by users. One representative technique includes receiving user input that is indicative of a direction in which presented content that is arranged by sequence will be advanced. A navi...

A region menu is used to easily access menu items. Generally, the region menu includes a number of regions with associated menus that are located close to an initial mouse position from where the region menu is evoked. Hovering over any of the regions of the region menu displays the menu item that is associated with...

A system and method of managing unsolicited email sent to an email system over a network. Email messages are received at a message at an inbound mail transfer agent. A determination is made as to whether the email message is suspected to be an unsolicited suspect message. One or more queries for additional informati...

Segmented media content rights management is described. In embodiment(s), a media device can receive segments of protected media content from media content streams that each include a different version of the protected media content. A media content file can be generated to include the segments of the protected medi...

Allocation of memory registers for shaders by a processor is described herein. For each shader, registers are allocated based on the shader"s level of complexity. Simpler shader instances are restricted to a smaller number of memory registers. More complex shader instances are allotted more registers. To do so, deve...

A GUI adapted for use with portable electronic devices such as media players (110) is provided in which Interactive objects are arranged in a virtual three-dimensional space (400) (i.e., one represented on a two-dimensional display screen (218)). The user (105) manipulates controls (223) on the player (110) to maneu...

Disclosed is a gaming system having a processing device and a remote input device that is operationally coupled to the processing device. The remote input device may include a motion sensor. The resolution of the motion sensor may be set dynamically from the game software, such that both gross and fine gestures can ...

Real time media-based social network notifications (312) are utilized to provide updates of events (400) that occur in a social network (325) in real time. By providing a data feed of events which are monitored in the social network to a real time media system such as a presence-based messaging network (260), users ...

Embodiments described herein are directed to simultaneously presenting a virtual touchpad and a graphical user interface of an operating system on the same display. A user can interact with the OS using the virtual touchpad, and user touches are read by a touch-screen portion of the display assigned to the touchpad....

Techniques to manage communications between relay servers are described. A system may include multiple relay servers each having an enhanced relay control module. The enhanced relay control module may be operative to manage communications between private clients communicating over the first relay server and the seco...

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for using Visual landmarks to organize diagrams. Embodiments of the invention facilitate using Visual landmarks to organize elements within a diagram. Elements of a diagram can be arranged in accordance with configurable defined propert...

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for protected mode scheduling of operations. Protected mode (e.g., user mode) scheduling can facilitate the development of programming frameworks that better reflect the requirements of the workloads through the use of workload-specific...

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for licensing protected content to application sets. Embodiments of the invention permit a local machine to increase its participation in authorizing access to protected content. For example, an operating system within an appropriate co...

A workflow designer enables a user to author a workflow by arranging building blocks in a particular order using a combination of a graphical designer and a rules based editor. The building blocks are encapsulated and displayed graphically to the user. The building blocks may correspond to events, conditions or acti...

A user interface element is displayed for in place editing of values within a document. For example in response to selecting a value a user interface is displayed near the value that receives a slide gesture for adjusting the value in place. The user interface may be configured to select one of the discrete parts of...

The normal roles of wireless stations and wireless access points in initiating wireless connections may be reversed without changing network interfaces for either the station or access point device. This may allow wireless devices acting as access points, but on which service clients operate, to initiate a connectio...

[0045] Technologies are described herein for providing a pan and zoom control in conjunction with a timeline for navigating project schedule data in a project management application. The project management application displays a pan and zoom control in conjunction with a project schedule timeline, with the pan and ...

A note taking application displays a notebook with a multi column hierarchical navigation display. Each column has navigation elements that are activated to navigate through one or more notebooks. The user can control the display to expose more or fewer navigation columns.

Methods systems and computer readable media for providing topical search suggestions are provided. Topical search suggestions allow a user to receive search results related to the designated topic or subject matter. The present invention may generate multiple topics based on search input provided by a user. The sear...

Techniques for managing annotation transformations are described. An apparatus may include a processor coupled to memory. The memory may store a shared application manager (SAM) module for execution by the processor. The SAM module may comprise a client user interface component operative to generate a shared applica...

Application states may be stored and retrieved using policies that define various contexts in which the application is used. The application states may define configurations or uses of the application, including connections to and interactions with other applications. Applications that are virtualized may have state...

Motion controlled list scrolling includes outputting to a display device a user interface including a plurality of selectable items and receiving a world space position of a hand of a human subject. Responsive to the position of the hand of the human subject being within a first region the plurality of selectable it...

A set of workflows are provided for supporting proper user notifications after an action is taken by the user in conjunction with an asynchronous communication service. Timing and/or type of the notifications or an action to be taken by the service is determined based on one or more of a nature of the user action th...

Techniques to view and manage followed content are described. A technique may include receiving a selection to follow a content item. A reference to a content item selected for following may be stored for a user. The references for the user may be displayed in a centralized location in a user interface. The display ...

Described is the backup and/or restore of virtual disks In general, metadata is backed up for restoring a virtual disk. To restore the disk, a physical disk is created, with the virtual disk the created on a partition of the physical disk. Backup and restore is described for nested virtual disks, including for block...

Embodiments are disclosed that relate to the correction of an image acquired in a rolling image capture system for ambient light. One embodiment provides a device comprising a screen, a rolling image capture system, a local light source, and a controller. The controller is configured to operate the local light sourc...

Techniques for auto-generating the target's visual representation may reduce or eliminate the manual input required for the generation of the target's visual representation. For example, a system having a capture device may detect various features of a user in the physical space and make feature selections from a li...

Brokering locations for the completion of tasks. Location information for a plurality of sellers is maintained. Buyers define tasks to be performed at particular task locations at particular times. A brokering system notifies the sellers of the defined tasks, and selects sellers near the task locations to complet...

A system for creating a report in a spreadsheet includes: a central processing unit; and a memory encoding instructions that when executed by the central processing unit cause the central processing unit to create: a data source module programmed to identify tables associated with the spreadsheet; a relationship mod...

A system for creating a report in a spreadsheet includes a data source module programmed to identify sources of data items associated with the spreadsheet an active module programmed to identify which of the data items are associated with the report that is generated in the spreadsheet and a display module programme...

Technologies are described herein for identifying a sharing level of content items in a content library. The content library includes a first content item having a first sharing configuration and a second content item having a second sharing configuration. The first sharing state associated with the first content it...

A set of security claims for a communication channel are obtained, the set of security claims including one or more security claims each identifying a security characteristic of the communication channel. The security claims are stored, as is a digital signature generated over the set of security claims by an entity...

Correlating user activity and location-based prediction of network access events with the delivery of pushed content to a computing device. Location information for the computing device is received by the computing device. One or more network access events are predicted, or network access characteristics are determi...

The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that effectuate distribution of advertising as real-time video calls. The system can include devices that detect whether or not a mobile device associated with a user is in the vicinity of a retail establishment, ascertains whether or not the proximate mobil...

Determining semantics for locations based on user data such as user activities and/or user communications. The user data is captured and analyzed to identify keywords including locations. Location data describing the locations is obtained and associated with the user and keywords. The associations represent user con...

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates routing an incoming data communication in connection with unified communications. A unified communications component can employ unified communications for a data communication with an email data communication mode, a voice data communicati...

Systems methods and computer readable storage media for enabling immersive interactive search engine home pages are provided. Upon receiving a request for a search engine home page an image is presented that covers only a portion of the available display. The image includes a portion of a larger image but appears as...

Review and filtering of search results is facilitated by providing additional types of results beyond links to existing documents can be provided in addition to or in place of links to existing documents. These additional results can facilitate modifying a search request to filter out unwanted documents. The additio...

The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods for propagating viral advertising content to multiple mobile devices without utilizing an intermediary interposing hosting and/or distribution service. The system includes devices that receive viral advertising content on a mobile device, modify the viral ad...

In server/client architectures the server application and client applications are often developed in different languages and execute in different environments specialized for the different contexts of each application (e.g. low level performant platform specialized and stateless instructions on the server and high l...

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 port...

A control server initiates a call to a first device. After creating a connection to the device, the control server reverses the direction of the message flow between the device and the control server such that the device becomes the initiator of the call (the caller) and the control server becomes the device that is...

Systems and methods are provided for generating a DNN classifier by "learning" a "student" DNN model from a larger more accurate "teacher" DNN model. The student DNN may be trained from unlabeled training data by passing the unlabeled training data through the teacher DNN which may be trained from labeled data. In o...

An environmental tracking system provides facilities for modeling the processes of an organization that have an impact on the environment. The environmental tracking system allows each process to be modeled by its input substances and its resulting output substances. The environmental tracking system allows links to...

Techniques and tools for conversion operations between modules in a scalable video encoding tool or scalable video decoding tool are described. For example, given reconstructed base layer video in a low resolution format (e.g., 4:2:0 video with 8 bits per sample) an encoding tool and decoding tool adaptively filter ...

In general, this disclosure describes techniques that employ user-defined values of properties of sections of an electronic presentation. As described herein, a user may configure a presentation to include a plurality of sections. Each of the sections includes zero or more slides of the electronic slide presentation...

A technique that enables a portable device to be automatically associated with a plurality of computers. Information that a computer can use to authenticate a portable device and establish a trusted relationship prior to creating an association with the portable device is created and stored in a data store that is a...

A user request to display an application while the device is locked is received. In response to this user request, one or more images generated by the application are obtained and displayed while the device is locked. Additionally, an indication of an application to be displayed upon resuming operation from a power-...

A generic means for synchronizing information about a user s view of a document or other content within an application across native client and web applications is provided. Attendees of an online broadcast are enabled to see what the presenter is seeing within their own application. In addition meeting specific inf...

An electronic discovery (eDiscovery) application is used in managing an electronic discovery process across different electronic data sources using a central interface. The eDiscovery application assists in managing: authentication support for the different data sources; accessing the different data sources; placing...

Systems and method for routing search query results in a networked computing environment. An initial search query is reformulated into at least one sub query in accordance with one or more configurable rules. The sub query is sent to at least one information system or source and any potential hits associated with th...

The display of a content area is automatically adjusted such that the display of a virtual input panel (e.g. virtual keyboard gesture area handwriting area ) does not occlude content with which the user is interacting. After adjusting the display of the content area the content being interacted with is visible withi...

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates authenticating a data communication. An interface component can receive data related to a real time data communication between two or more clients. A verification component can employ a human interaction proof (HIP) to a client participati...

A flash storage device and a method for using the flash storage device to prevent unauthorized use of a software application are provided. An identifier may be encoded within specific sectors of the flash storage device. One bits of the identifier may be encoded as unusable ones of the specific sectors and zero bits...

INTERNAL SCROLL ACTIVATION AND CURSOR ADORNMENT Mechanisms for allowing a user to scroll through a displayed viewer. Upon detected using input while the viewer is being displayed, the user input is identified is being a scrolling gesture. In response, a scrolling control is activated at an interior portion of the...

An exemplary system includes a front-end component, one or more distributed computation and storage (DCS) components, and a location services component. The front-end component is configured to receive requests for resources in a data center, associate each request with identifying information, locate resources for ...

The present invention extends to methods systems and computer program products for adaptively selecting electronic message scanning rules. Embodiments of the invention relate to dynamically (and potentially unpredictably) varying the depth/thoroughness of classifying electronic messages to protect against undesirabl...

A speech-to-text transcription system for a personal communication device (PCD) is housed in a communications server that is communicatively coupled to one or more PCDs. A user of the PCD, dictates an e-mail, for example, into the PCD. The PCD converts the user"s voice into a speech signal that is transmitted to the...

A pivotable events timeline is described. In embodiment(s), a pivotable events timeline can include event indicators of events associated with television media content. The event indicators can be displayed to indicate a sequence of the events along the pivotable events timeline. An event on the pivotable events tim...

Systems methods and software are described herein for enhancing features within program applications. In an implementation a user associated with a productivity application is identified and a service application associated with the user is identified. A service feature that corresponds to the service is enabled wit...

A method for generating an accompaniment for a recorded audio melody includes providing a recorded audio melody that includes segments; performing a frequency analysis of the recorded audio melody; summing the total duration of each fundamental frequency within a segment of the melody; based on the summing, computin...

Technologies, systems, and methods for ordered message delivery that avoid message races or crisscrosses between communicating nodes. For example, if Node A sends message 3 towards Node B and, shortly thereafter, Node B sends message X to Node A, Node A would like to know whether or not message X reflects Node B"s s...

An arrangement for exposing self-describing device-hosted services on a client device to a host application or processes over MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) is provided by which an MTP extension comprising new MTP commands enables the device-hosted services to be backwards and forward compatible with existing MTP imp...

Technologies are described herein for animating objects through the use of animation schemes. An animation scheme is defined using a declarative language that includes instructions defining the animations and/or visual effects to be applied to one or more objects and how the animations or visual effects should be ap...

Software deployment to server nodes within large-scale networked systems is provided using image-based deployment. A mostly immutable image is provided at a central service and transferred from the central service to the server nodes. The image includes a base image, which is immutable, and a delta image, which is w...

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing a client application with access to a file based upon a local offline version of the file and/or web online version of the file. That is a file may be shared/synchronized from a remote source such as a web storage service. A web online version of the ...

SYNDICATED ADVERTISING AND COMMERCE THROUGH WIDGETS An Internet host user posts, or embeds an advertising link, or widget into an interactive program located on a website. The advertising link is viewed by other users who visit the website and participate in the interactive program. A backend infrastructure provi...

Automatic extraction of data from and tagging of a photo (or video) having an image of identifiable objects is provided. A combination of image recognition and extracted metadata including geographical and date/time information is used to find and recognize objects in a photo or video. Upon finding a matching identi...

A system and method are disclosed for activating an electric device from a standby power mode to a full power mode. The system may include one or more microphones for monitoring audio signals in the vicinity of the electric device and a standby power activation unit including a low power microprocessor and a non vol...

A routing system receives an instant message (I M) from a user via an I M service. The I M contains a source address associated with the I M user and a destination address associated with a contact in the I M user's "buddy" list. A temporary mobile device number is allocated to the I M user. The I M is converted to ...

Various embodiments enable local web applications to communicate asynchronously with web based services and applications based on a local device's current state and a user's communications preferences. In at least some embodiments, a synchronization engine receives a message in a "Web Inbox" from a web based service...

ABSTRACT MULTI-LEVEL EVENT COMPUTING MODEL High-order events may be generated and consumed in a cascading computing model. Low level information, such as changes in physical sensor readings, may be communicated to an application in the form of event messages that are generated by an operating system service. In one...

ABSTRACT AUTOMATICALLY FINDING CONTEXTUALLY RELATED ITEMS OF A TASK Architecture for enabling a user to automatically recover documents and other information associated with work contexts and recover documents and other information artifacts associated with a specific project. The architecture enables monitoring ...

At a mobile communications device, a communication is received from a communication source. An indication of an environment type associated with the communication source is obtained, and a check is made as to whether the indication of the environment type associated with the communication source matches a current en...

Methods and computer-readable media for associating words or groups of words distilled from content, such as reported speech or an attitude report, of a document to form semantic relationships collectively used to generate a semantic representation of the content are provided. Semantic representations may include el...

Various embodiments provide message queue management techniques designed to reduce the likelihood of multi component applications becoming nonresponsive and enable recovery options for individual components if they do become nonresponsive. In at least some embodiments a message queue manager detects when a component...

Various embodiments enable a tab within a web browser user interface to be dragged out of an associated tab band in which it appears. When dragged outside of the tab band content can be rendered within a window associated with the tab. This permits side by side viewing of content in the primary web browser user inte...

Video from a video camera can be integrated into a still image with which it shares common elements to provide greater context and understandability. Pre processing can derive transformation parameters for transforming and aligning the video to be integrated into the still image in a visually fluid manner. The trans...

ABSTRACT COMPUTING SYSTEM WITH VISUAL CLIPBOARD A visual clipboard system and method are provided, in which drag-and-release operations are employed to move copies of a displayed object onto and off of a predefined clipboard area. When a copy of a displayed object is placed on the predefined clipboard area, the dis...

ABSTRACT MESSAGE COMMUNICATION OF SENSOR AND OTHER DATA A service may be provided that reads sensors, and that communicates information based on the sensor readings to applications. In one example, an operating system provides a sensor interface that allows programs that run on a machine to read the values of senso...

Embodiments of camera-based scanning are described. In various embodiments, scanned documents can be created using images captured by a camera associated with a device. An image captured by the camera is processed to identify portions within the image that correspond to rectangular objects such as pap...

An optical structure useful in a see through head mounted display apparatus allows is provided. A first and a second partially reflective and transmissive elements are configured to receive the output of any number of optical sources via an optical element. Each reflective and transmissive element is positioned alon...

A method (74) to furnish input representing gaze direction in a computer system operatively coupled to a vision system. In this method a first image of an eye at a first level of illumination is acquired by a camera of the vision system (78). The first image is obtained from the camera and a second image of the eye ...

Various embodiments are disclosed that relate to the presentation of images of shadows cast over a real world background by images of objects displayed on a see through display. For example one disclosed embodiment provides a method of operating a display device having a see through display screen The method compris...

Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to offload reads and writes. In aspects a requestor that seeks to transfer data sends a request for a representation of the data. In response the requestor receives one or more tokens that represent the data. The requestor may then provide one or more of these to...

Techniques described enable efficient swapping of memory pages to and from a working set of pages for a process through the use of large writes and reads of pages to and from sequentially ordered locations in secondary storage. When writing pages from a working set of a process into secondary storage the pages may b...

Embodiments are directed to dynamically delivering virtual software applications and to allocating application data between local and network data stores. In one scenario a computer system establishes a data input/output (I/O) filter configured to intercept data file requests being sent from a virtual software appli...

Techniques are provided for the caching of content prior to the content being requested. A request for desired content may be received from a client application at a caching server. The request may also indicate additional content related to the desired content that may be subsequently requested by the client applic...

Described are embodiments for allowing clients that access a distributed file system to locally cache directory metadata. The client may request a read lease which allows the client to cache the directory metadata locally and service requests received from the same application which originally requested the director...

A web page behavior enhancement (WPBE) control element is provided on a rendered web page enabling a user to perform actions on at least a portion of the web page content such as customizing editing sharing analyzing exporting and/or annotating the content. The processed content may be presented on the original web ...

A Web service synchronization protocol is provided that sets forth the metadata and messaging by which endpoints roam, share and synchronize common information with one another in a multi-master networked computing ecosystem. A general SOAP-based protocol is defined for synchronizing data between two endpoints where...

Technologies are described herein for rendering documents containing three-dimensional objects. A client computer receives a request to display a document. If a program utilized to create the document is not available to display the document, the client computer transmits a request to a server computer to render the...

Technologies are described herein for coreference resolution in an ambiguity-sensitive natural language processing system. Techniques for integrating reference resolution functionality into a natural language processing system can processes documents to be indexed within an information search and retrieval system. A...

A unified messaging (UM) application benefits from platform independence and human intelligibility of extended Markup Language (XML). A finite state machine (FSM) of the UM application is created utilizing an XML feature to create a valid menu state based upon a UM software component. For a UM software component tha...

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for rendering online ads on a webpage. A first inter frame communication channel is created which comprises a first communication channel between a first cross domain frame and a host page such as the webpage. The first cross domain frame comprises content from a d...

ABSTRACT DYNAMICALLY TRANSFORMING DATA TO THE CONTEXT OF AN INTENDED RECIPIENT [0061] A sender can create a message for transmission to an intended recipient. During creation of the message, the sender may insert data into the message that is expressed with reference to the context of the sender. When the sender ...

An image such as a depth image of a scene may be received, observed, or captured by a device. A grid of voxels may then be generated based on the depth image such that the depth image may be downsampled. A background included in the grid of voxels may also be removed to isolate one or more voxels associated with a f...

Creating a distributed application includes selecting a group of components from a list of components available on a remote server cluster. Data required to install the selected components is received from the remote server cluster. A list of instructions is created in response to the received data. The list of inst...

Search queries containing multiple modes of query input are used to identify responsive results. The search queries can be composed of combinations of keyword or text input image input video input audio input or other modes of input. The multiple modes of query input can be present in an initial search request or an...

An indication of a remaining battery life currently available based on a current resource setting for a resource of a computing device is displayed. A user input to change the resource to a new resource setting is received and in response to the user input an indication of the remaining battery life currently availa...

Technologies are described herein for controlling components associated with a room using a mobile phone. A gateway is configured to receive a command from a mobile phone. Upon receiving the command the gateway determines whether the command is a room command or a presentation command. If the command is a room comma...

Temporarily sensitive information can be stored in the non-volatile storage of a TPM, from which it can be securely, and irretrievably, deleted. Additionally, information stored in a TPM can secure information stored on communication ally dis connectable storage media such that, when communication ally disconnected,...

Embodiments of transparent display configuration modes are described. A portable device includes a handheld base movably coupled to a display device that is configurable to open and close over the handheld base. The display device displays an image and the display device includes a first display surface through whic...

A system and methodology that enables a mobile device user to privately retrieve information while engaged in an active communication session is provided. The innovation enables a user to prompt lookup and retrieval of information (e.g., calendar appointments, contact information, task information) without interrupt...

A connector is provided for electrically coupling a battery with a battery-powered device. The connector includes a first dual-contact assembly and a second dual-contact assembly. Each dual-contact assembly includes a positive contact for contacting a positive PP3 terminal of a PP3 battery, and a negative contact fo...

End users of a multi-factor authentication service can utilize an account management service, and third-party website can register to utilize the multi-factor authentication service. Registering a third-party website can comprise the multi-factor authentication service receiving a valid digital identity certificate ...

Media fragmentation may be provided. First, a request for a manifest may be received from a cl ient. Then, in response to the received request for the manifest, the manifest may be sent to the client. Next, a request may be received from the client for a file fragment. The request may indicate a start time and an en...

A formula detection engine and associated method. The formula detection engine locates formulas within a fixed format document portion by identifying formula seeds. The formula detection engine creates and expands a boundary around the formula seed to define a formula area. To eliminate overlap with surrounding norm...

User presence is detected in a notebook that includes multiple different documents. The user identity and location within the notebook can be displayed to other users to facilitate collaboration.

Page tables in the last level of a hierarchical page table system are scanned Tor candidate page tables. Candidate page tables are converted to large pages, having a page table entry in a level before the last level of the hierarchical page table system adjusted to be associated with the newly created large page. Up...

ABSTRACT VIRTUALIZED STORAGE ASSIGNMENT METHOD Various aspects are disclosed for building a device driver stack in a virtual machine partition that does not physically control the device represented by the stack. In an embodiment, a secondary interface and driver for an I/O device may be instantiated. Information f...

Atomic multiple modifications of streams is provided. Streams are selected for the application of an atomic multiple modification. A lock is acquired on the meta-data associated with the streams. Each stream is de-coupled from its name. Multiple modifications are applied to the selected streams. After performing the...

A computing device having a software defined radio (SDR) wireless network interface is automatically configured to support a wireless service in response to a request from the user to access the service. The computing device may determine the appropriate profile and obtain it by querying a remote database. The query...

ABSTRACT REDUCED DC GAIN MISMATCH AND DC LEAKAGE IN OVERLAP TRANSFORM PROCESSING In certain embodiments, overlap operators are applied during encoding and/or decoding of digital media, where the overlap operators have reduced DC gain mismatch and/or DC leakage between interior overlap operators and overlap operat...

ABSTRACT EXTERNAL ENCRYPTION AND RECOVERY MANAGEMENT WITH HARDWARE ENCRYPTED STORAGE DEVICES Hardware encrypting storage devices can provide for hardware encryption of data being written to the storage media of such storage devices, and hardware decryption of data being read from that storage media. To utilize exi...

ABSTRACT INTERACTIVE DESIGN ENVIRONMENTS TO VISUALLY MODEL, DEBUG AND EXECUTE RESOURCE ORIENTED PROGRAMS In scenarios involving a data set accessible through a protocol, operations sets may be formulated for performing various operations on the data set, and may be expressed as resource scripts according to a scri...