Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Bruce Alan Morgan

Israel Hilerio

Alexander H Malek

Carlos Yeung

Justin Martin Posey

Jane T Kim

Amar S Gandhi

Mara B Patton

John E Davis

Kinnary M Jangla

Phu Hoang Le

Mustapha Jaber

Sean O Lyndersay

William Gould

Mary-Lynne Williams

Warren G Stevens

John Heinrich Lueders

Martin J Hall

Prashant Singh

Aaron J Sauve

Wayne Wy Choi

Cindy Kwan

Edward J Praitis

Walter V Von Koch

Jess Holbrook

Keith Douglas Senzel

Cornelis K Van Dok

Jan-Kristian Markiewicz

David Andrew Matthews

Tariq Sharif

Brian E Manthos

Helen Elizabeth Drislane

Govind Varshney

Maria K Blees

Daniel Martin Saimo

Sebastien Zimmermann

David S Kosbie

Paul L Cutsinger, Jr

Wayne W Y Choi

Jess S Holbrook

Various embodiments enable a web site to expose various search providers that it promotes to browsers that navigate to that site. In at least some embodiments, the search providers are exposed using the HTML of a web page. When a browser navigates to that site, it processes the HTML of the associated web page and exposes the promoted search providers to the user. In at least some embodiments, the browser can permit use of one or more search providers without requiring the user to install the search provider. Alternately or additionally, in at least some other embodiments, the browser can enable the user to quickly and efficiently install the search provider so that the search provider can be available whenever the user uses their browser application.

Automatic browser search provider detection and usage

Web applications are created and installed in response to user interactions with browser menus and browser links. In some instances, a browser menu selection or a selection of an icon associated with a URL in a web browser triggers the web application creation. A link to the web application may be presented in a task bar or a menu of an application on a client device.

Dynamic web application notifications including task bar overlays

A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like. Further, in at least some embodiments, a user can subscribe to a particular web feed, be provided with a user interface that contains distinct indicia to identify new feeds, and can efficiently consume or read RSS feeds using both an RSS reader and a web browser.

Finding and consuming web subscriptions in a web browser

A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like.

Content syndication platform

Drag and drop operations are associated with the installation of web applications. In some instances, drag and drop operations include the selection of an icon associated with a URL in a web browser. When the selected icon is dragged to a taskbar of a desktop, a corresponding web application file is created.

Various embodiments provide a mechanism to allow end users to install web applications and websites onto their desktop. In accordance with one or more embodiments, client-side code can be utilized to allow developers associated with a website to define boundaries associated with user interaction, and have those boundaries enforced by a run-time engine. In at least some embodiments, developers can provide, through JavaScript code and/or HTML markup, various configurations for the creation of a start menu shortcut, navigation, and so-called jumplist integration.

Web application home button

Various embodiments provide techniques for direct manipulation of content. The direct manipulation of content can provide an intuitive way for a user to access and interact with content. In at least some embodiments, content manipulation is 'direct' in that content displayed in a user interface (e.g., one or more Web pages in a Web browser interface) can be moved in and/or out of the user interface in a direction that corresponds to user-initiated physical movements, such as the user dragging or flicking the content with the user's finger or some other type of input device.

Direct manipulation of content

Web application navigation domains

Various embodiments receive, at a client device, selection of a website integration feature and initiate, on behalf of an associated website, a web application installation process. The process causes a web application file to be created on the client device and populated with web application content including a list that constitutes a set of relevant tasks or content that is configured to be presented to a user. The list defines one or more dynamic elements that can be dynamically updated by the website.

Web application pinning including task bar pinning

Private pinning including task bar pinning and jump list task and item launching

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Bruce Alan Morgan