Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Zhigu Holdings Limited

Mocrosoft Corporation

Adrian James Garside

Leroy B Keely

Takanobu Murayama

Jeffrey West Pettiross

Tracy Dianne Schultz

Tobiasz Alexander Zielinski

Marieke Watson Iwema

Nazia Zaman

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Lindsey R Barcheck

Chantal M Leonard

Christopher T Bush

Robert L Chambers

Jan-Kristian Markiewicz

Shawna Julie Davis

David V Winkler

Judy C Tandog

Josh A Clow

F David Jones

Joshua Clow

Thomas R Wick

Michael James Hone

Steve Dodge

Erik Michael Geidl

Todd A Torset

Kyril Feldman

Ravipal S Soin

Krishna Kotipali

Donald D Karlov

Philipp Heinz Schmid

Shiraz M Somji

Luis M Huapaya

Ernest L Pennington, Ii

Ravi Soin

Susan E Dziadosz

Bob Dain

Grady Leno

Tobias Zielinski

Milena Salman

Vivek Yogesh Tripathi

Alexander Gournares

Alexander G Gounares

Manuel Christian Clement

Paul Armistead Hoover

Michael J Patten

Jason Glenn Silvis

Tetsuo Seto

Maxim Mazeev

Chris Whytock

Theresa B Pittappilly

Rick Duncan

Allison Gallant

Clement Basile Fauchere

Thomas H Alphin

Sarah W McDevitt

David Vaughn Winkler

Jarrod Lombardo

Alice Dai

Daphne Guericke

Shou-Ching Schilling

Shawna Julia Davis

Ernest L Pennington

Jason Silvis

Sarah Mcdevitt

Maxim V Mazeev

This document describes techniques for application reporting in an application-selectable user interface. These techniques permit a user to view reports for applications in a user interface through which these applications may be selected. By so doing, a user may quickly and easily determine which applications to select based on their respective reports and then select them or their content through the user interface.

Application reporting in an application-selectable user interface

Tile cache techniques are described. In at least some embodiments, a tile cache is maintained that stores tile content for a plurality of tiles. The tile content is ordered in the tile cache to match a visual order of tiles in a graphical user interface. When tiles are moved (e.g., panned and/or scrolled) in the graphical user interface, tile content can be retrieved from the tile cache and displayed.

Tile cache

Described herein are techniques performed by an application executing on a computing device. The application may have a graphical user interface (GUI) comprised of graphic objects displayed on a display of the computing device. The application may also have state data managed and stored by the application. The state data may specify features and layout of the GUI. The graphic objects may be displayed according to the state data. The application may dynamically adjust a threshold to different levels by monitoring user interactions with the GUI via an input device and setting the threshold to the different levels according to the user interactions with the GUI. Operations from an external source directed to the GUI are received. Each operation has a corresponding priority specific to the operation. The priorities and threshold levels are compared to determine whether to implement the operations.

Preventing sync interruptions

An object is associated with one or more controls in a software application. An object associated with a control determines the operation of the data entry user interface when the data entry user interface is being employed to enter data into the control. More particularly, the object may communicate interface e characteristics to a component that is responsible for providing the user interface to the user. Such a component may be, for example, a shared software module that renders the user interface on a display, receives input data from the user through the user interface, and routes the entered data to a designated destination. Alternately, the object itself may create a user interface having the specified characteristics.

Utility object for specialized data entry

As a user writes using a handheld writing device, such as an electronic pen or stylus, handwriting input is received and initially displayed as digital ink. The display of the digital ink is converted to recognized text inline with additional digital ink as the user continues to write. A user may edit a word of recognized text inline with other text by selecting the word. An enlarged version of the word is displayed in a character correction user interface that allows a user to make corrections on an individual character basis and also provides other correction options for the word.

Inline handwriting recognition and correction

Various embodiments enable target disambiguation and correction. In one or more embodiments, target disambiguation includes an entry mode in which attempts are made to disambiguate one or more targets that have been selected by a user, and an exit mode which exits target disambiguation. Entry mode can be triggered in a number of different ways including, by way of example and not limitation, acquisition of multiple targets, selection latency, a combination of multiple target acquisition and selection latency, and the like. Exit mode can be triggered in a number of different ways including, by way of example and not limitation, movement of a target selection mechanism outside of a defined geometry, speed of movement of the target selection mechanism, and the like.

Target disambiguation and correction

Described herein are techniques to facilitate efficient application navigation by a user. In one embodiment, two or more scrollable surfaces contain application icons. One surface may have a first type of application icon and may be a user-customized surface akin to a desktop. Usually, only one of the surfaces is active and displayed at a given time. The user can swap one surface into view and the other surface out of view. The active surface is independently scrollable; when a given surface is swapped out and then swapped back in, despite any scrolling of the intervening surface, when the given surface is swapped back into view it returns at the same position it had before being swapped out. Another embodiment may provide optimizations to enhance performance and responsiveness by pre-rendering imagery of an off-screen surface. Caching logic may be used to assure that the imagery is correct.

Start and application navigation

User interfaces, methods, systems, and computer-readable media for activating and/or displaying text input systems on display devices may include: (a) displaying a text input system activation target at a user changeable location on a display device; (b) receiving user input directed to the activation target; and (c) activating a text input system in response to the user input. Such user interfaces, methods, and systems further may include (d) displaying a pre-interaction condition of the activation target; (e) receiving user input directed to the activation target in this pre-interaction condition; and (f) changing an appearance of the activation target from the pre-interaction condition to a larger size and/or a different visual appearance in response to this user input. Additional aspects of this invention relate to computer-readable media for providing user interfaces, systems, and methods as described above.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for invoking an electronic ink or handwriting interface

A user input panel dynamically expands to accommodate user input, such as handwritten or keyboard input. Expansion may occur in one or two out of four possible directions, depending upon the language to be written or typed. For example, when writing English words, the input panel may expand to the right as the user writes and then downward when the input panel has fully expanded rightward.

Text input window with auto-growth

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Adrian James Garside