公开(公告)号：EP1256231A1

公开(公告)日：2002-11-13

申请号：EP01903108.7

申请日：2001-01-17

申请人： MICROSOFT CORPORATION

发明人： PRITCHETT, Thaddeus, C. ,  GOLL, David, A. ,  MCDOWELL, Sean, C. ,  BACKMAN, Terje, K. ,  BORSETH, Jay, Alan

IPC分类号： H04N5/00

CPC分类号： H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/438 ,  H04N21/4383 ,  H04N21/443

摘要： A modularized broadcast receiver driver architecture includes one or more control nodes, under control of a network module, that perform a series of one or more functions to receive a broadcast signal and extract content information from the signal. None of the multiple control nodes requires knowledge of the network type via which the signal is being received. Rather, a network module is aware of the network type and configures the control nodes to carry out their respective functions.

公开(公告)号：EP1342156A2

公开(公告)日：2003-09-10

申请号：EP01923030.9

申请日：2001-04-02

申请人： MICROSOFT CORPORATION

发明人： SANKARANARAYAN, Mukund ,  FOLTZ, Forrest, C. ,  SHAW, George ,  SATHER, Dale, A. ,  RAFFMAN, Andy, R. ,  SRINIVASAN, Jai ,  BACKMAN, Terje, K. ,  PARRY, William, G. ,  BAKIN, David, S. ,  JONES, Michael, B. ,  MCDOWELL, Sean, C. ,  RAJA, Jayachandran ,  SPEED, Robin

IPC分类号： G06F9/00

CPC分类号： G06F9/50 ,  G06F9/526 ,  G06F2209/5014 ,  G06F2209/522 ,  H04N21/4424 ,  H04N21/443

摘要： Resource management architectures implemented in computer systems to manage resources are described. In one embodiment, a general architecture includes a resource manager and multiple resource providers that support one or more resource consumers such as a system component or application. Each provider is associated with a resource and acts as the manager for the resource when interfacing with the resource manager. The resource manager arbitrates access to the resources provided by the resource providers on behalf of the consumers. A policy manager sets various policies that are used by the resource manager to allocate resources. One policy is a priority-based policy that distinguishes among which applications and/or users have priority over others to use the resources. A resource consumer creates an 'activity' at the resource manager and builds one or more 'configurations' that describe various sets of preferred resources required to perform the activity. Each resource consumer can specify one or more configurations for each activity. If multiple configurations are specified, the resource consumer can rank them according to preference. This allows the resource consumers to be dynamically changed from one configuration to another as operating conditions change.