Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Clint C Jorgenson

Jane T Kim

Warren G Stevens

Sarah J Bowers

Laura J Gehring

Pui Ching Hon

Christopher Andrew Evans

Jae Pum Park

James E Allard

Hadi Partovi

Randall Knight Winjum

Anthony T Chor

Benjamin L Perry

Eric M Lawrence

Eric Robert Berman

Stephen Proteau

Pritvinath Obla

Erik Jon Snapper

Bharat Shyam

Todd A Sahl

Craig Adam Beilinson

Alexander Castro

Linda I Hong

Julian Jiggins

Dave Risney

Frank Z Chang

Wei Feng

Ritika Virmani

Steven J Freedman

Andrew E Olson

Susan Makarian

In one or more embodiments, a Web browser receives user input in the form of text that is entered in a suitably-configured text entry bar, such as an address bar. The web browser processes the text and ascertains whether the text appears to be a search or an attempted navigation. Based on whether the text appears to be a search or an attempted navigation, the web browser communicates the text to a search provider, along with an indication of whether the text appears to be a search or an attempted navigation. The search provider receives the text and the indication and can then take appropriate action as by returning a search results page or causing the web browser to be redirected to a website associated with the received text.

Direct navigation through browser address bar

Various embodiments provide a download bar user interface control that is designed to help users maintain focus on their browsing activities, while offering notifications regarding a file download. In at least some embodiments, the download bar user interface control is non-modal and is presented at a location within the browsing field-of-view that is selected to reduce user distraction. Various embodiments also provide a download manager user interface that enables multiple download-related tasks to be performed. In at least some embodiments, the download manager user interface is presented responsive to input to the download bar user interface control. Further to some embodiments, the download bar user interface control can be closed responsive to the download manager user interface being presented and download-related notifications and options transferred from the download bar user interface control to the download manager user interface.

Download bar user interface control

Systems and methods for digital negatives are described. In one aspect, a digital negative is created on a computing device from a digital image. The digital image is linked to the digital negative. In response to a save operation associated with the digital image, a new digital image is generated and bi-directionally connected to the digital negative. In response to a revert operation associated with the new digital image, contents of the new digital image are replaced with contents of the digital negative.

Digital negatives

A system and method is provided for learning data values over time as they are entered by a user on a form such as a web page form. An Internet web browser can be modified to suggest previously used data values for any form field that is the same as or similar to a previously used form field. Application programs that use the web browser can gain access to previously used form field values even if they have no knowledge of the field names. Software in a web browser associates field names across different Universal Resource Locators (URLs), so that when a user enters a value into a field (e.g., username) at a first web site, that same value can be automatically suggested when the user displays a different form on a different web site that uses the same field name.

System and method for populating forms with previously used data values

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Carnation, WA, United States of America

Clint C Jorgenson