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Zhigu Holdings Limited

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Cornelis K Van Dok

Charles Cummins

Aaron J Sauve

Timothy P McKee

David George De Vorchik

Paul Alexander Gusmorino, Iii

Jonathan David Perlow

Colin Ray Anthony

Mark R Ligameri

Tony Edward Schreiner

Marc Adam Silbey

Sean Olin Blagsvedt

Joel K Grossman

Lyon K F Wong

Vivien Park

Greg S Melander

Patrice Lynn Miner

Charles W Stabb

Richard Malcolm Banks

Hillel Noah Cooperman

Fabrice A Debry

Stephan Hoefnagels

Matthew Bret MacLaurin

Tjeerd Hoek

Tyler Kien Beam

Kenneth Martin Tubbs

Denise L Chen

Donald James Lindsay

Lili Cheng

Jason Fergus Moore

Andrzej Turski

Relja Ivanovic

Richard M Banks

Marieke Iwema Watson

Randall Knight Winjum

Walter R Smith

Li-Hsin Huang

Fabio Pettinati

Peyman Oreizy

Jeffrey Michael Davis

John-Anthony Owens

Jeremiah S Epling

Andrew S Crane

Chris J Guzak

Melissa Wood Dunn

Jeffrey West Pettiross

Oliver Griffith Fisher

Paul Cutsinger

Ahsan Syed Kabir

Jeffrey C Belt

Stephen Proteau

Mark T Schofield

Joseph J Brychell

Christopher J Araman

Sasanka Chalivendra

Lyon King-Fook Wong

Austina M De Bonte

Kevin M Otnes

Roman L Deeds

Eli Tamanaha

Debra L Weissman

Kathleen B McNamee

Jason F Moore

Timothy P Mckee

Colin R Anthony

Jenny T Lam

Michael James Hone

Judson Craig Hally

Bruce Alan Morgan

Tariq Sharif

Jan Thomas Miksovsky

Ales Holecek

Kanwal Vedbrat

Philip P Fortier

David G DeVorchik

Sarah E Schrock

Govind Varshney

Daniel Martin Saimo

Sebastien Zimmermann

Donna Ghosh

Stephan Hoefnagles

Gilad Israeli

Michelle D McKelvey

Sandra B Barnat

Koichi Tsunoda

David G De Vorchik

Jonathan D Perlow

Tony E Schreiner

Randall K Winjum

Marieke Watson

The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a method for pinning a tab in a tabbed browser. Briefly stated, browsing software is configured to recognize a 'pin' event, such as a hot key, a menu selection, and the like. Upon recognizing the pin event, the browsing software splits a display screen into a pinned window and a tabbed window. The tabbed window displays one or more open tabs and the content of the currently in focus tab. The pinned window may display content that was previously displayed within one of the tabs in the tabbed window or may display new content. The browsing software may configure the navigation of the pinned window differently than the navigation for the tabs in the tabbed window.

System and method for pinning tabs in a tabbed browser

In an electronic file system, preview information is provided to the user during a drag operation of a selected object onto a target object. The information indicates what type(s) of action is to be taken should the selected object be dropped onto the target object. The action(s) to be taken may depend upon the type of the selected object and/or the type of the target object. For example, where the selected object is an item and the target object is a persisted auto-list, the action may include adding, removing, or modifying one or more properties of the selected object to conform to one or more criteria defined by the persisted auto-list. Also, numerical feedback may be provided to the user where multiple objects are selected. For example, where seven objects are selected, the textual number '7' may appear next to the cursor.

Rich drag drop user interface

System(s) and/or method(s) ('tools') are described that present indicia for implicitly and explicitly user-associated web pages of a network browser application. The tools can present these indicia in a single graphic user interface, in response to a user's selection of a single unified access point, or in response to a search of the browser's user-associated web pages.

Searching and browsing URLs and URL history

Described are a system and method for presenting security information about a current site or communications session. Briefly stated, a browsing software is configured to receive a certificate during a negotiation of a secure session between a local device and a remote device. The certificate includes security information about a site maintained at the remote device. The security information is displayed to a user of the browsing software in a meaningful fashion to allow the user to make a trust determination about the site. Displaying the security information may include presenting a certificate summary that includes the most relevant information about the certificate, such as the name of the owner of the site and the name of the certificating authority of the certificate.

Visualization of trust in an address bar

In a graphical user interface environment, a situational-specific browser may be used to provide contextually appropriate levels of information for files whose information is to be displayed. As different views of files are to be displayed, the browser may dynamically adjust its configuration to display different types of information, features and/or command options. Different views may be predefined, or new views may be dynamically created in response to user navigation.

Scenario specialization of file browser

The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a method for managing multiple content windows. The content windows may host a web browser, a shell view, a word processing application, and the like. A set of content windows are grouped into a frame in a manner such that a taskbar shows one item for the set of content windows. Each content window is associated with a tab for the frame. A content-specific menu may be associated with each tab. The content-specific menu includes a set of commands based on the heterogeneous content hosted in the content window. The set of commands provide functionality to the heterogeneous content.

System and method for browsing tabbed-heterogeneous windows

Aspects of the present invention are directed to the stacking of visual items, and their subsequent expansion, or unstacking Upon selection of a stack, that stack expands into the individual visual items making up that stack. Further aspects of the present invention are directed to expanding a stack in different ways depending upon the circumstances. Further aspects of the present invention are directed to providing a hot area associated with, and potentially disposed around, a stack. Selection by the user of the hot area results in selection of the associated stack. The stack may itself be considered a single item that is itself selectable. After the stack is expanded, then the individual visual items making up the original stack are each individually selectable. However, when stacked, the individual items may not be selectable except as a complete stack.

Dynamic stacking and expansion of visual items

A metadata management architecture. The architecture includes a property component that lists one or more properties related to a file, and a viewing component that present files having one or more of the related properties. A synchronization component provides immediate synchronization between property editing fields of the property component and a view in the property-based browser component, providing both instantaneous feedback on property changes and an ability to manipulate properties graphically. Thus, a change in the property pane is immediately reflected in the view component, and a change in the view component is immediately reflected in the property pane.

Metadata editing control

A system and related techniques accept user-inputted search terms, for example to perform a search for files or other data or objects. Corresponding matches to those terms may be presented to the user in a 'word-wheel'-type breakout list generated on the fly for groupings of hits by attributes or other criteria, as the system searches through the file system at the current level or point in the file system hierarchy. Search results may be continuously or dynamically updated as the user, for example, enters more characters or other data.

System and method for dynamically generating a selectable search extension

In a graphical user interface environment, a request to save a file may result in a display of a location or view in which the file is to be saved, and may include a preview indicia representing the to-be-saved file. The user may interact with the preview indicia to edit the new file's metadata by repositioning the indicia in a different view, and/or the system may automatically update the preview indicia's location in response to the user editing displayed metadata properties for the new file. The preview indicia may have a distinct appearance, and may persist to show the user how the new file can be located after the save process is performed.

Save preview representation of files being created

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