Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Arunjeet Singh

John Michael Sheehan

Kunal Gandhi

Sameer Tejani

Sean Mckenna

Akhilesh (Akhil) Kaza

Adrian Hurditch

Dor Naveh

Abolade Gbadegesin

Akhilesh Kaza

Andrew Clinick

John Edward Gallardo

Sean M McKenna

Systems and methods cross device application discovery and/or control. Cross device application discovery and/or control can provide for simple detection and activation of applications on remote devices. Cross device application discovery and/or control can provide for the control of remote applications in a master and slave configuration. Responsive to an activation message, an application can execute a task in an application, the task being displayed on a target device. Responsive to an activation message, an application can execute a task in an application on a target device, a task context data for the task being streamed to the source device for presentation on a display. Cross device application discovery and/or control can be enabled on a single operating system, or across a plurality of operating systems.

Cross device application discovery and control

Using a method of operating a system that includes remote servers, multiple electronic devices, and a wireless portable, the portable wireless device receives notification of an incoming call. The system uses the remote servers and other parts of the system to determine that one of the electronic devices can wirelessly communicate with the portable wireless device, and establishes a wireless connection between the portable wireless device and that device. The system determines whether the user is also located with the portable wireless device and wirelessly connected device and if so, routes incoming call audio to that device. If the system determines that the user is located with a different device, incoming call audio is routed from the portable wireless device to the device near the portable wireless device, and then the call audio is bridged to the device near the user.

Routing of communications to a device

A system and corresponding method is provided to receiving a phone number for a mobile device as part of a process of associating the phone number with a communication profile. A communication system commands a device connected to the communication system and to a mobile device to cause the mobile device to call a verification phone number assigned to the communication system. The communication system receives the phone number of the mobile device via the verification phone number. The communication system also retrieves phonebook data from the mobile device for storage and subsequent use. Receiving phone number, the phonebook data can be performed with minimal efforts on part of the user beyond connecting the mobile device to the device.

Phone number verification

Using a method of operating a system that includes remote servers, at least one electronic device, and multiple portable wireless devices, a user provides a verbal notification to the electronic device to place an outgoing call. The system uses the remote servers and other parts of the system to determine that one of the multiple portable wireless devices should be used for the outgoing call, and establishes a wireless connection between that portable wireless device and the electronic device. The system determines the particular portable wireless device to use by comparing the called entity with contacts associated with the multiple portable wireless devices, and selecting the portable wireless device with a contact that matches the called entity.

Device selection for routing of communications

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that enable a first application (i.e., a caller application) to call a second application (i.e., a callee application) to perform a function in a manner such that the first application may be dehydrated during the call. Dehydrating includes terminating execution of an instance of the first application, and freeing memory space in a memory of a mobile device that stored the instance of the first application. In such case, the second application may be active while the first application is no longer present in memory. The second application is enabled to respond to the call, causing the first application to be rehydrated. The first application continues execution at a location where the first application was dehydrated, and receives the response to the call.

Application dehydration and rehydration during application-to-application calls

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