Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Brent Gilbert

Matthew Jay Kotler

Cynthia Christine Shelly

Richard J Wolf

Gary Allan Pritting

Kim Tapia St Amant

Karen K Wong

Janet L Schorr

Mark Fredrick Iverson

Scott A Sherman

Tyler Robert Adams

Crystal L Hoyer

Andrew John Howe

Ilan Berker

Dawn Marie Wright

Mikko T Mannisto

Tony J Beeman

Benjamin D Haynes

Hubert Van Hoof

David Gray

David John Brennan

Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec

Nicholas Wrem

Owen Edwards

David Michael Gray

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for touch input systems in computing environments are provided herein. In one example, an interaction service positioned logically between an operating system and an application is provided. The interaction service directs a processing system to receive a call from the application referencing an interaction class to attach to an object in a user interface used for the application, wherein the interaction class comprises a set of declarative statements. The interaction class attaches to the object in the user interface. A user input is then identified to the operating system associated with the object. In response to the user input, the interaction service determines which one of the declarative statements corresponds to the user input. The one of the declarative statements is then executed to call corresponding native code that performs an action with respect to the object.

Touch application programming interfaces

The present invention includes a graphics software program that automatically creates graphical content when a user creates or modifies a hierarchical list of content data and chooses from one of a plurality of graphical definition choices for the graphical elements. In addition, the present invention includes a user interface with three different displays. The first display presents the user with one or more galleries including a gallery with a plurality of graphical definitions. The second display is a content entry area. The final display is a drawing canvas.

Editing the text of an arbitrary graphic via a hierarchical list

Systems and methods for generating and broadcasting a dynamic identifier are presented. Based on the current context and rules established for accessing personal information, a dynamic identifier corresponding to a computer user is dynamically generated and provided to a computing device corresponding to the computer user. The computing device may broadcast the dynamic identifier to others. Upon receipt of a dynamic identifier, a party wishing to determine information regarding the broadcasting party must query an information service with the dynamic identifier. According to a set of rules and/or permissions established for the target computer user (broadcasting the dynamic identifier), accessible information is identified and returned to the requesting party. Additionally, a user is provided with the ability to edit, add to, and/or delete information that is stored by the identification service regarding the user on behalf of a submitting party.

User-management of third-party user information

A method and system for rendering graphics based on user customizations in a computer graphics application are disclosed. The customizations relate to various properties of one or more graphical elements in the graphic. Such properties include positioning, size, formatting and other visual attributes associated with the graphical elements. These properties may be defined as either semantic properties or presentation properties. Semantic properties are persistent across all graphic definitions. Presentation properties are specific to the graphic definition to which each particular graphic belongs. Thus, a customization to a semantic property of a displayed graphic is preserved in memory for application not only to the currently displayed graphic, but also to all other graphic definitions that may be displayed in the future. In contrast, a customization to a presentation property is only preserved for the currently displayed graphic, and thus not preserved for all other graphic definitions.

Maintaining graphical presentations based on user customizations

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for touch input systems in computing environments are provided herein. In one example, an interaction service positioned logically between an operating system and an application is provided. The interaction service directs a processing system to receive a call from the application referencing an interaction class to attach to a layer in a user interface used for the application, attach the interaction class to the layer in the user interface, listen to the operating system for user input occurring with respect to the layer, and determine per the interaction class what actions to perform in response to the user input.

When using graphical diagrams, cutting and pasting operations may take advantage of predefined relationships to intelligently insert and remove items from the diagram. A text data model may be interpreted sequentially or hierarchically to construct various diagrams. Pasting operations will bring new data into the diagram and data model while conforming the new data to the diagram definition. Cutting operations may cause the data model and diagram to be healed to conform to the diagram definition.

Smart copy/paste of graphical nodes

Generating a child timeline on a drawing sheet of a diagramming program such that the child timeline is dynamically linked to a parent timeline. An automated method allows for the automatic placing of information on the child timeline that was on the parent timeline when the child timeline is created. Parent and child timelines can be modified and a child timeline can be automatically updated when changes are made to the parent timeline and these changes affect the time interval corresponding to the child timeline.

System and method for providing a dynamic expanded timeline

A public graphic library coupled to a WAN offers access to a database of graphics, while another graphic library inside the firewall of an enterprise network provides graphics to users in an enterprise. Transferring graphics from the public graphic library to the enterprise graphic library enables enterprise users to access content residing on the public graphic library while the enterprise network is disconnected or otherwise isolated from the WAN. A remote library director in a drawing software program directs communication between a user computer and either the public graphic library or the enterprise graphic library. The configuration of this director specifies the library from which a user accesses graphics.

Managing graphic databases

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