Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Billie Sue Chafins

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Feng Zhao

Jensen Michael Harris

Sashi Raghupathy

Manoj Kumar Biswas

Christopher T Clark

Ahsan Syed Kabir

Ginger J Gloystein

Katie Messerly

Devang Thakker

Olivier Tritschler

Patrik Lundberg

Robert J Jarrett

Martyn S Lovell

Paul J Kwiatkowski

Sankhyayan Debnath

Paul Stephen Gildea

Jay Turney

Ahsan Kabir

An operating system provides an extensible share action to broker content sharing between applications executing on a computing platform such as a personal computer, tablet computer, or smartphone. The share action enables a consistent user experience for content sharing to be implemented across all applications and eliminates users having to switch from the current application they are using to some other functionality in order to share content. Applications can participate with the operating system share action as source applications and/or target applications. Source applications may describe what content is shareable given the current state of their application when the user chooses to invoke the share action. Target applications can be configured to receive the shared content from the source application according to content type, and will expose a companion view of their application to the user that is specifically tailored to facilitate sharing.

Extensible system action for sharing while remaining in context

Many computer applications incorporate and support animation (e.g., interactive user interfaces). Unfortunately, it may be challenging for computer applications and rendering systems to render animation frames at a smooth and consistent rate while conserving system resources. Accordingly, a technique for controlling animation rendering frame rate of an application is disclosed herein. An animation rendering update interval of an animation timer may be adjusted based upon a rendering system state (e.g., a rate of compositing visual layouts from animation frames) of a rendering system and/or an application state (e.g., a rate at which an application renders frames) of an application. Adjusting the animation rendering update interval allows the animation timer to adjust the frequency of performing rendering callback notifications (work requests to an application to render animation frames) to an application based upon rendering system performance and application performance.

Controlling animation frame rate of applications

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