Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amy Elizabeth Alberts

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Paula Guntaur

Marina Dukhon

Navjot Singh

Jonathan Ian Gordner

Maria Fernandez Trevino

Megan Galbraith Donahue

Rhoniel Villano Manlapaz

Alan Michael Bush

Rachel Jiang

Vijayendra Gopalrao Vasu

Ashwini Kumar Varma

Jan H Karachale

An out-space actuator is selected to access an out-space user interface for a document editor program. An out-space actuator is associated with an in-space user interface having a displayed document. When the out-space actuator is selected, an out-space user interface is displayed that includes an expanded feature selection surface. The out-space user interface may be used to display one or more status panes for providing status information about a document being edited in the in-space user interface. Application features for affecting changes to a given document's status may be exposed in the out-space interface in proximity to associated status information. An out-space communication user interface (UI) component may be temporarily displayed in the document in-space user interface to communicate document status information that is presently available in the out-space user interface. A message bar may be displayed in the in-space user interface for communicating information from the out-space user interface.

Transitions between user interfaces in a content editing application

The subject disclosure is directed towards a task switching technology on a computing device such as a Smartphone. An application is comprised of one or more tasks. When a user requests that another task be executed, information about the previously executing task (e.g., including a screenshot) is preserved to a stack. If the user invokes a task switcher program, the user is presented with a view of the stack, e.g., containing the screenshots (and representative text) of the tasks that previously executed. The user may navigate among those presented task representations to arbitrarily select any one, with the selected task resumed upon selection.

Task switching on mobile devices

Exposing non-authoring features through document status information in an out-space user interface

Communication between a document editor in-space user interface and a document editor out-space user interface

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Amy Elizabeth Alberts