Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Curtis Glenn Wong

Steven Mark Drucker

Asta Glatzer

Steve Glenner

Eric J Horvitz

Carl Myers Kadie

Dale Alan Sather

Kenneth S Reneris

Thaddeus C Pritchett

Stuart Ozer

Talal Ali Batrouny

David Hendler Sloo

Todd E Holmdahl

Asta Jane Roseway

James E Allard

Jonathan Edgar Fay

Steven D DeMar

Kentaro Toyama

Dawson Yee

Igor B Peev

Joel P Dehlin

James Charles Finger, Ii

Nicholas Robert Baker

B Scott Ruble

Ehab Sobhy

Steven Charles Glenner

David Alles

Kevin Fan

Adam Tipton Berns

Michael F Cohen

Craig J Mundie

George G Robertson

Bongshin Lee

Roland Lucas Fernandez

Murali R Krishnan

Ray Bittner

David Francis Gainer

John Alfred Payne

Li-Wei He

Christian Olaf Abeln

Stella Yick Chan

Oliver R Roup

Benjamin L Chronister

Ian Michael Dunmore

Alexandre Gorev

Steven Douglas De Mar

Thomas Michael Casey

Matthew Jay Kotler

James Morris Alkove

Patrick Markus Baudisch

Eric Norman Badger

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Greg D Schechter

Jai Srinivasan

James Thomas Kajiya

Brian Scott Ruble

Jason Joseph Weber

Behrooz Chitsaz

Morten Holm-Petersen

Prarthana H Panchal

Robert Marcus Girling

Morten Holm-Peterson

Barry James Givens

Ahmed K Kamal

Steven G Glenner

Kelley T Maves

Gregory D Schechter

David M Folchi

Martijn E VanTilburg

David F Huynh

Nicholas C Baker

The presently described subject matter allows the user to interactively browse a collection of electronic files, such as a digital photo collection, remotely using a mobile telephone. Files from the collection of electronic files can be directed from the mobile telephone to be sent to a remote display device, where the file can be displayed. Also, a user can record voice and text annotations from the mobile phone to preserve with an electronic file, and which is transported along with the file when it is displayed on a remote display device.

Processing files from a mobile device

Concepts and technologies are described herein for generating scenes and tours in a spreadsheet application. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a computer system executes a visualization component. Selection of an option to create a tour can be detected by the computer system. In response to detecting selection of the option, the computer system can create a tour. The computer system also can detect selection of an option to add a scene to the tour. The tour can be saved. Playback of the tour can be started in response to detecting selection of a play option. If the playback is paused, changes made to the tour and/or the scenes can be tracked by the computer system, and an updated version of the tour can be saved.

Generating scenes and tours in a spreadsheet application

Concepts and technologies are described herein for displaying temporal information in a spreadsheet application. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, spreadsheet data can be obtained at a computer system. The spreadsheet data can include data values, temporal information, and geographic information. The computer system can generate a visualization of the spreadsheet data based, at least partially, upon the data values, the temporal information, and the geographic location information. The computer system also can output the visualization.

Displaying temporal information in a spreadsheet application

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for creating socially authored, or community authored, summaries of documents and/or for navigating a forum comprising such summaries. In one embodiment, at least some of the summaries are generated automatically when a document is written and/or discovered (e.g., by a web crawler), for example. In another embodiment, the documents are created by users of the forum. A plurality of summaries of a document may be created (e.g., by different users), and users can provide feedback, such as comments or ratings, that may assist other users in identifying which summary or summaries better describe the document. Moreover, the users can navigate the forum and retrieve summaries by browsing categories (and subcategories) to identify a topic of interest and/or by performing a search based upon user inputted search term(s).

Community authoring content generation and navigation

The claimed subject matter relates to various architectures that can, inter alia, facilitate creation of a synch file as well as facilitate interpretation of the synch file. Both creation and interpretation can be accomplished in conjunction with an original media asset. The synch file can include transformation commands that can operate on a presentation of the asset rather than upon the asset itself. Accordingly, what is actually perceived by a content consumer during a presentation of the asset need not be exactly what the asset creator fixed in a tangible medium. Rather, the content consumer can observe a derivative media presentation based upon interpretation of the synch file.

Non-destructive media presentation derivatives

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can support a declarative model-based approach to designing, constructing, and rendering visualizations. By complying with a declarative descriptor, components can be readily customized by way of modifications to the model&#x2014;declaratively specifying suitable features, behaviors, appearances and so forth. The descriptors that conform to the model can also facilitate connecting to various data sources and performing data transformation operations. Moreover, the descriptors that conform to the model can declaratively specify relationships based upon a scene layout. Accordingly, the architecture can further describe the scene layout and provide features based upon the layout.

Declarative approach for visualization

A system and method are disclosed for providing program criteria representing a plurality of audio and/or visual programs. A plurality of tokens are stored in a database of one or more computers, each token having an identifier for identifying a predetermined audio and/or visual program. Each token may be a universal program identifier that represents a specific program in a global programming environment (e.g., the token may identify a program across multiple tuning spaces). Alternatively or additionally, a token may be a tuning-space specific program identifier that represents program criteria associated with a specific program for particular tuning space. The server is programmed to provide at least one token to a remote computer based on selection criteria.

System and method for providing program criteria representing audio and/or visual programming

Technologies, systems, and methods for exploring a virtual space without cluttering or obscuring a field of view of the virtual space with overlaid names, labels, symbols, markers, and the like. Instead, a user may select objects of interest presented in a context bar to locate them in the field of view. Further, the user can make use of various forms of selection to zoom in on objects or points in the field of view and access information regarding the virtual space and objects without adding persistent clutter to the field of view.

Localized thumbnail preview of related content during spatial browsing

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that manages media content. The disclosed system includes a component that synchronizes with a multimedia player that is in communication with the component. The component upon synchronization automatically determines an amount of storage space available on the handheld device and based at least in part on this available space, the component substitutes a first media presentation persisted on the storage space with a second media presentation retrieved from a media storage farm.

Virtual personal video recorder

A system and method are disclosed to facilitates programming of a recording device. A client system is operatively coupled with the recording device, which, for example, is programmed and/or configured to record selected audio and/or visual broadcast programming. The client system receives a message, such as in the form of electronic mail (email) or another suitable form, from a remotely located computer. One or more tokens are associated with the message for providing program criteria indicative of selected audio and/or visual programming, which may be employed to program the recording device for recording broadcast programming based on the token.

System and method to facilitate programming of an associated recording device

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Curtis Glenn Wong