Information transmission based on modal change

• US 9,552,036 B2
• Filed: 11/24/2014
• Issued: 01/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Izadi, Shahram, Chitsaz, Behrooz
• Primary Examiner(s): Rossiter, Sean D
• Application Number:
  US14/551,995
• Publication Number:
  US 20150082068A1
• Time in Patent Office: 792 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3293 by switching to a less power-consuming processor, e.g. sub-CPU
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3296 by lowering the supply or operating voltage
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0811 with multilevel cache hierarchies
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0813 with a network or matrix configuration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0873 Mapping of cache memory to specific storage devices or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/154 Networked environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/161 Portable computer, e.g. notebook
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/284 being distributed
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/3042 being part of a memory device, e.g. cache DRAM
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/305 being part of a memory device, e.g. cache DRAM
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A dual-mode, dual-display shared resource computing (SRC) device is usable to stream SRC content from a host SRC device while in an on-line mode and maintain functionality with the content during an off-line mode. Such remote SRC devices can be used to maintain multiple user-specific caches and to back-up cached content for multi-device systems.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

maintaining a plurality of cache locations in memory of a shared-resource device, each cache location of the plurality of cache locations storing content specific for a respective user and enabling the respective user to operate the shared-resource device independently from one or more other users; and

transmitting one or more annotations stored in a first cache location of a first user to another device in response to the shared-resource device changing from a first mode to a second mode, wherein the first mode comprises a low-power mode and the second mode comprises a full-power mode.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second credential associated with a second user;

in response to determining an identity of the second user based on the second credential, granting access of content stored in a second cache location to the second user, the second cache location being different from the first cache location.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

capturing the one or more content annotations of the first user during the first mode; and

storing the one or more content annotations in the first cache location.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein content stored in the first cache location comprises content previously streamed from a host device to the shared-resource device during a last session of the first user on the shared-resource device.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising logging the first user in the shared-resource device in response to determining an identity of the first user based on a first credential.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising enabling a presentation of content that the first user has accessed in a last session based on content stored in the first cache location.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the low-power mode comprises a mode in which the shared-resource device is not connected to a network, and the full-power mode comprises a mode in which the shared-resource device is connected to the network.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting content to the first user via a first display in the first mode; and

presenting the content to the first user in a second display in the second mode, the second display being different from the first display.

9. A computing device comprising:

one or more processors;

memory storing executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising;

maintaining a plurality of cache locations in the memory, each cache location of the plurality of cache locations storing content specific for a respective user and enabling the respective user to operate the computing device independently from one or more other users; and

transmitting one or more annotations stored in a first cache location of a first user to another device in response to the shared-resource device changing from a first mode to a second mode, wherein the first mode comprises a low-power mode and the second mode comprises a full-power mode.

10. The computing device of claim 9, the acts further comprising:

receiving a second credential associated with a second user;

in response to determining an identity of the second user based on the second credential, granting access of content stored in a second cache location to the second user, the second cache location being different from the first cache location.

11. The computing device of claim 9, the acts further comprising:

capturing the one or more content annotations of the first user during the first mode; and

storing the one or more content annotations in the first cache location.

12. The computing device of claim 9, the acts further comprising:

logging the first user in the computing device in response to determining an identity of the first user based on a first credential; and

enabling a presentation of content that the first user has accessed in a last session based on content stored in the first cache location.

13. The computing device of claim 9, wherein the low-power mode comprises a mode in which the computing device is not connected to a network, and the full-power mode comprises a mode in which the computing device is connected to the network.

14. The computing device of claim 9, further comprising a first display and a second display which is different from the first display, wherein the acts further comprise presenting content to the first user via the first display in the first mode and presenting the content to the first user in the second display in the second mode.

15. One or more computer storage media storing executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:

maintaining a plurality of cache locations in memory of a shared-resource device, each cache location of the plurality of cache locations storing content specific for a respective user and enabling the respective user to operate the shared-resource device independently from one or more other users; and

transmitting one or more annotations stored in a first cache location of a first user to another device in response to the shared-resource device changing from a first mode to a second mode, wherein the first mode comprises a low-power mode and the second mode comprises a full-power mode.

16. The one or more computer storage media of claim 15, the acts further comprising:

receiving a credential associated with a second user;

in response to determining an identity of the second user based on the credential, granting access of content stored in a second cache location to the second user, the second cache location being different from the first cache location.

17. The one or more computer storage media of claim 15, the acts further comprising:

capturing the one or more content annotations of the first user during the first mode; and

storing the one or more content annotations in the first cache location.

18. The one or more computer storage media of claim 15, wherein content stored in the first cache location comprises content previously streamed from a host device to the shared-resource device during a last session of the first user on the shared-resource device.

19. The one or more computer storage media of claim 15, the acts further comprising logging the first user in the shared-resource device in response to determining an identity of the first user based on a credential associated with the first user.

20. The one or more computer storage media of claim 15, the acts further comprising enabling a presentation of content that the first user has accessed in a last session based on content stored in the first cache location.