Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Brett David Brewer

Gary William Flake

Donald James Lindsay

Karim Taji Farouki

Steven Mark Drucker

Stephen L Lawler

Blaise Aguera Y Arcas

Oliver Hurst-Hiller

Adam P Sheppard

Jeffrey Jon Weir

Richard S Szeliski

Eric Benjamin Watson

Tomasz Kasperkiewicz

Steven Nabil Bathiche

Kenneth Paul Hinckley

Anoop Gupta

Desney S Tan

Christopher A Meek

Amir Netz

Bongshin Lee

Christopher Hugh Pratley

David Benjamin Lee

Ewa Dominowska

Brian Burdick

David Max Chickering

Sarah Faulkner

Katrika Marie Morris

Jennifer P Michelstein

Nathaniel George Freier

Steven Richard Hollasch

Jody D Biggs

Ronald O Pessner

Jason Garms

Eddie L Mays

Ramez Naam

Natasa Milic-Frayling

Julio Estrada

Ilya Tumanov

Daniel Joseph Giambalvo

Ralph Sommerer

Nicole Ashley Hamilton

Ariel J Lazier

Timothy R Sullivan

Benjamin Vanik

Leonard M Kawell

Eric J Horvitz

Gur Kimchi

Alexander G Gounares

Michael F Cohen

Avi Bar-Zeev

Mary P Czerwinski

Oscar E Murillo

Milind V Mahajan

Melissa Wood Dunn

Christopher Bruce Weare

Jaron Zepel Lanier

Jonathan C Cluts

Janet Ellen Galore

Timothy David Sharpe

Hai Liu

Anthony T Chor

Flora P Goldthwaite

Sven Pleyer

Eric I-Chao Chang

Darrell Leroy Blegen

Christopher D Payne

Agustya Ruchir Mehta

Nicholas A Whyte

Chad Garrett Waldman

Jayaram Nm Nanduri

Abhiram G Khune

Blaise H Aguera

Laurent Chavet

Randall J Macbeth

Hrishikesh Bal

Roman Ormandy

Blaise Aguera Y Aguera

Michael Fredrick Cohen

The description relates to a shared digital workspace. One example includes a display device and sensors. The sensors are configured to detect users proximate the display device and to detect that an individual user is performing an individual user command relative to the display device. The system also includes a graphical user interface configured to be presented on the display device that allows multiple detected users to simultaneously interact with the graphical user interface via user commands.

User interface for collaborative efforts

The discussion relates to spatially meshed interactive devices. One example can include a mesh component that has access to a layout of features of a facility and to information about users associated with the facility. The example can also include multiple interactive devices including sensors and communication components. The multiple interactive devices are communicatively coupled via the communication components and at least some of the multiple interactive devices are communicatively coupled to the mesh component. The multiple interactive devices are located at known positions in the facility to create a spatial mesh at the facility relative to the features.

Coupled interactive devices

A three dimensional (3D) model of an object or environment may be created from images and other information of the object or environment. The 3D model may be created by aligning the images. The 3D model may include surfaces that are based on surfaces of the object or environment. The 3D model may be displayed, exported, modified and so on.

Procedural authoring

Optimizing data rendering includes, in one embodiment, using templates to express a data request as a set of queries where each query in the set is prioritized based on, among other things, context factors such as capabilities of the requesting device, network factors, and user context. After generating the set of queries, each query in the set of queries is then executed to progressively populate the template with the requested data. As the queries are executing, the templates are progressively rendered.

Data rendering optimization

Group experience user interface

Command authentication

A three dimensional (3D) model of an object or environment may be created from images and other information of the object or environment. The 3D model may be created by aligning the images. The 3D model may include surfaces that are based on surfaces of the object or environment. The 3D model may be displayed, extorted, modified and so on.

Utilizing a scrollbar handle for both zooming and panning a display comprising items in a user interface may be accomplished by monitoring an input device's interaction with the scrollbar handle. If the scroll handle is dragged in a direction away from an orientation of the scroll handle in the scrollbar, a display area zoom function can be activated. The zoom function allows a viewbox, comprising content, to be rescaled as a function of the distance the scroll handle is dragged. A displaybox can be created that distinguishes an area of the viewbox from the remainder of the display, which corresponds to content in the viewbox that would be displayed in normal zoom if the scroll handle were released at that location. Further, upon detecting that the scroll handle is released, the display area can zoom to a view of the content inside the distinguished area.

Scrollable area multi-scale viewing

A method of incrementally refining queries and updating query result lists without requiring a user to provide an explicit indicator of query submission. In the method, one or more query related character patterns are defined. Entry of query defining characters by a user is monitored to detect entry of a defined query related character pattern. The user is provided with one or more suggested query refinement options and an updated query result list each time a defined query related character pattern is detected. The query related character patterns may be a character pattern that indicates a word has been input by the user.

Incremental query refinement

Concepts and technologies are described herein for transforming data into consumable content. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a computing device can execute a transformation engine for transforming data into the consumable content. The computing device can be configured to analyze the data to identify relationships within data elements or other portions of the data. The computing device also can determine a visualization model to apply to the data and to choose a world based upon the determined visualization model. The computing device can obtain rules associated with the selected or chosen world, and can apply the rules to the data to generate the output. In some embodiments, the computing device can be configured to obtain and apply feedback to the output.

Transforming data into consumable content

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates servicing a portion of a trade card via a web service. A web service can provide a portion of data to enhance a trade card, wherein the portion of data is at least one of a portion of trade card document-specific data, an intelligent gadget, or a feed driven component. A build component can leverage the web service to utilize the portion of data with the trade card.

Trade card services

Concepts and technologies are described herein for creating variations when transforming data into consumable content. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a computing device can execute a transformation engine for transforming data into the consumable content. The computing device can be configured to analyze the data to identify relationships among data elements or other portions of the data, and to identify any possible approaches to transforming the data ('worlds') based upon the relationships and the data. The worlds can be ranked and selected based upon rank. The computing device can obtain rules associated with the selected and apply the rules to the data to generate the output. In some embodiments, the computing device can be configured to obtain and apply feedback regarding the world selection.

Creating variations when transforming data into consumable content

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can enhance an experience associated with indicia related to a local environment. In particular, the architecture can receive an image that depicts a view of the local environment including a set of entities represented in the image. One or more of the entities can be matched or correlated to modeled entities included in a geospatial model of the environment, potentially based upon location and direction, in order to scope or frame the view depicted in the image to a modeled view. In addition, the architecture can select additional content that can be presented. The additional content typically relates to services or data associated with modeled entities included in the geospatial model or associated with modeled entities included in an image-based data store.

Augmenting a field of view

Growing community of inventors

Sammamish, WA, United States of America

Brett David Brewer