Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Cyrus Kanga

David E Gardner

Jeff Fleischmann

Jennifer Lauren Rodenhouse

Ross David Heeter

Jason Robert Tuck

Craig R Maitlen

Ali M Vassigh

James Lee

John A Solaro

Anthony J Giardini

Andrew E Einaudi

Eddie L Mays

Kathleen Patricia Mulcahy

Shiraz Jitendra Cupala

Zhangwei Xu

Szymon Piotr Stachniak

Kenneth Alan Lobb

Edward M Capuano

Colin Michael Riley

Michael Kleinerman

Megan Archer

Deana Rae Fuller

Antonio Pizzutelli

Julian Selman

Insheik Martin Jung

Andrew J Moroney

MacBeth Watson

Neil Warren Black

Neil Cueto

Salvador Alucema

Russell P Songco

John Clinton Rice

Mario Esposito

William F Schiefelbein

Daniel John Zurawski

John Darren Elliott

Joshua C Zana

Clinton Chi-Wen Woon

Howard Benjamin Nager

Spencer Hurd

Alexander D Tudor

Heather Grantham Brodie

Matthew Alan Medak

Erin Pudenz

Eric Christopher Voreis

Ronald Oswin Pessner Jr

Marc Victor Haddah

Alexander James Soule

Embodiments of the present invention provide a process-management interface on a companion device that allows a user to control characteristics of an application running on a primary device. The interface can change a size or position of a viewport and change the primary device's control focus to or away from viewport. The process-management interface also allows a user to target a process on the companion device.

Remote process management

Embodiments of the present invention provide an active-application interface on a companion device that allows a user to control an application running on a primary device. The active-application interface may describe state information for a plurality of applications running on the primary device and allow the user to manipulate the application through one or more contextual controls. The active-application interface may be used to control applications running out-of-control focus on the primary device, including applications that do not presently have a visible viewport.

Remote application control interface

Aspects of the invention can log a user into a primary device in a more efficient manner. For example, aspects of the invention may eliminate the need for the user to supply user credentials directly to a primary device. Instead, the companion device recognizes relevant primary devices located proximate to the companion device and automatically initiates a user login to the primary device without user intervention. Aspects of the invention can automatically login a user to known and unknown primary devices.

Multidevice authentication

Embodiments of the present invention provide a contextual remote control interface, which is a companion application that allows a user to use a companion device to control experiences generated by an application running on a primary device. Web browsers, games, and streaming media applications are examples of applications running on a primary device that may be controlled using the companion device. Interfaces associated with each of the media applications on the primary device may be displayed on a television or other device coupled to the primary device. A unique set of virtual controls are included in the remote control interface for each application and may be tailored to the current state of the application.

Contextual remote control interface

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Cyrus Kanga