US 7,680,908 B2Granted

State replication

AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation

InventorsWilliam H. Gates, III, Gary W. Flake, James R. Larus, Debi P. Mishra, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Raymond E. Ozzie, Lili Cheng, Nishant V. Dani, Daniel S. Glasser, Alexander G. Gounares, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Amit Mital, Ira L. Snyder, Jr.

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Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate replicating a state associated with a client, user, service, application, and the like. A third party service provider can support any number of services that can be concurrently requested by several clients without user perception of degraded computing performance as compared to conventional systems/techniques due to improved connectivity and mitigated latencies. A replication component can generate replicas of states associated with requested services. Further, the replicas can facilitate seamlessly interacting with the third party service provider (e.g., while transitioning between client devices). Additionally, by providing replicas of the state related information, differing third party service providers can effectuate services based upon a request from a client without regenerating the state.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A system that facilitates replicating a state associated with a third party service provider, comprising:

a processor;
a memory, on which are stored processor executable instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the system to replicate the state associated with the third party service provider;
a service component that effectuates performing a service supported by the third party service provider in response to a request obtained from a first client device;
a replication component that generates a replica of a state associated with the service, wherein the replica facilitates seamless interaction with the third party service provider;
and
a migration component that shifts performance of computational tasks performed by the first client device to a second client device based at least in part by:
recognizing a user ID associated with both the first client device and the second client device;
determining if the second client device is in physical proximity to the first client device;
generating a suggestion to a user of the first client device to transition to the second client device;
receiving input, in response to the suggestion, of a single button click directing transfer of the third party service to the second client device;
transferring the state from the first client device to the second client device via utilizing the replica;
and
redistributing a computational split, after shifting performance of computational tasks to the second client, of computational tasks performed by the client device versus computational tasks performed by the third party service provider, wherein the redistributing is based on differences resulting from migration from first client device to second client device;
and
a user interface, wherein the user interface presents the service provided by the third party service provider for display on the second client device, and wherein the user interface changes, based on:
a prediction of upcoming data;
and
a consideration of characteristics of the second client device, including display size and processor limitations.

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A method that facilitates migrating, from a first client device to a second client device, computational tasks performed in connection with a third party service provider, comprising:

storing, in a memory communicatively coupled to a processor, computer-executable instructions for performing the method that facilitates migrating, from the first client device to the second client device, computational tasks performed in connection with a third party service provider;
executing the instructions on the processor;
according to the instructions being executed:
generating a replica of a state associated with a service supported by the third party service provider on the first client device;
and
migrating computational tasks associated with the service, from the first client device to the second client device, by employing the replica of the state to provide state continuity, wherein the migrating comprises:
recognizing a user ID associated with both the first client device and the second client device;
determining if the second client device is in physical proximity to the first client device;
generating a suggestion to a user of the first client device to transition to the second client device;
receiving input, in response to the suggestion, of a single button click directing transfer of the third party service to the second client device;
transferring the state from the first client device to the second client device consistent with the replica;
redistributing a computational split, after migrating computational tasks from the first client to the second client, of computational tasks performed by the client device versus computational tasks performed by the third party service provider, wherein the redistribution is based on differences resulting from migration from first client device to second client device;
and
changing a user interface, presenting the service provided by the third party service provider to the second client device, based on:
a prediction of upcoming data;
and
a consideration of characteristics of the second client device, including display size and processor limitations.

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A system that facilitates replicating a state associated with at least one of a client, a user, a service, and an application, comprising:

means for processing instructions within a computing environment;
means for storing the instructions on a memory, which when executed by a processor within the computing environment cause the system to replicate a state associated with at least one of a client, a user, a service, and an application;
means for receiving a request to perform a service supported by a third party service provider from a client device;
means for performing the requested service;
means for generating a replica of a state associated with the service on the first client device while performing the service on the first client device;
and
means for migrating computational tasks associated with the service, from the first client device to the second client device, by employing the replica of the state to provide state continuity, wherein the migrating comprises:
means for recognizing a user ID associated with both the first client device and the second client device;
means for determining if the second client device is in physical proximity to the first client device;
means for generating a suggestion to a user of the first client device to transition to the second client device;
means for receiving input, in response to the suggestion, of a single button click directing transfer of the third party service to the second client device;
means for transferring the state from the first client device to the second client device consistent with the replica;
and
means for redistributing a computational split, after migrating computational tasks to the second client, of computational tasks performed by the client device versus computational tasks performed by third party service provider, wherein the redistributing is based on differences resulting from migration from the first client device to the second client device;
and
means for changing a user interface, presenting the service provided by the third party service provider to the second client device, based on:
a prediction of upcoming data;
and
a consideration of characteristics of the second client device, including display size and processor limitations.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.