Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Apple Inc.

Other

Zumobi, Inc.

Daniel Chaim Robbins

George G Robertson

Mary P Czerwinski

Maarten Roderik Van Dantzich

Kenneth Paul Hinckley

Eric J Horvitz

Patrick Markus Baudisch

Kirsten C Risden

Andrew David Wilson

Steven Mark Drucker

Kim Cameron

Raman Kumar Sarin

Edward Bryan Cutrell

Hrvoje Benko

Susan Theresa Dumais

Brian R Meyers

Desney S Tan

Gregory Ray Smith

Maneesh Agrawala

John SanGiovanni

Greg R Smith

Timothy K Olson

Joel P Dehlin

Susan E Dziadosz

Gonzalo A Ramos

David D Thiel

Tovi Samuel Grossman

John R Douceur

Anoop Gupta

Ross Garrett Cutler

Scott Field

Kentaro Toyama

Matthew Uyttendaele

Cormac E Herley

Roland Lucas Fernandez

Alice Jane Bernheim Brush

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Jonathan Jay Cadiz

Nuria M Oliver

Amy Kathleen Karlson

Thekkthalackal Varugis Kurien

Gavin Jancke

Christina Summer Chen

Eric K Ringger

Tobin R Titus

Lev Boris Nachmanson

Ramaswamy Hariharan

Arindam Chatterjee

Erik Porter

Jeffrey Douglas Carnahan

Dugald R Hutchings

Ernest A Booth

Kristen Nilsen Nye

Jacob O Wobbrock

Tobias Hans Hoellerer

Meredith J Ringel

Jeremy Goecks

Kristen C Risden

Maarten Van Dantzich

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media providing focal feedback and control in a three-dimensional display. Focal anchors are provided at different depths and used to determine at what depth the user is currently focusing. The focal anchors are also used to receive input from the user. By looking at a focal anchor, the use can cause the portion of content associated with the focal anchor to be displayed more prominently relative to content displayed at different depths. In one embodiment, predictive feedback is provided at a depth associated with one of the focal anchors.

Focus guidance within a three-dimensional interface

Unique interactive systems and methods that facilitate single-handed navigation and interaction with applications within a display space on any type of mobile computing device are provided. Embodiments include or employ scalable application tiles corresponding to applications, whereby the application tiles can provide or indicate the current state of the corresponding application. State information provided in each tile can vary as well depending on the current size of the tile. Tiles can be arranged into a plurality of zones such that a user can view one zone at a time and obtain context and information from the application tiles in that zone rather than working with all tiles and all zones simultaneously. The view of the display space can be of the world or all application tiles, zone, or application. Panning and zooming among the zones, application tiles and/or views can also be performed.

Single-handed approach for navigation of application tiles using panning and zooming

The present invention provides a three-dimensional user interface for a computer system that allows a user to combine and store a group of windows as a task. The image of each task can be positioned within a three-dimensional environment such that the user may utilize spatial memory in order remember where a particular task is located.

Method and apparatus for providing a three-dimensional task gallery computer interface

A system and method for managing software application windows in a graphical user interface having a desktop and taskbar display area are provided. Each instantiated program is represented as one or more graphical windows in the desktop and as a control tile in the taskbar. Control tiles are grouped into control tile groups that facilitate organization and single access control. Project control tile groups allow the grouping of multiple software applications. Additionally, minimized control tile group layout and state may be preserved and previewed prior to being restored.

System and method for managing software applications in a graphical user interface

Systems and methods that establish a secured compartment that manages sensitive user transactions/information on a user's machine. The secured compartment qualifies user interaction with the machine, and separates such qualified interaction from other user activity on the machine. A user is switched to such secured compartment upon occurrence of a predetermined event, such as in form of: an explicit request (e.g., a secure attention sequence); an implicit request (e.g., inference of user activities); and presence of a peripheral device that is bound to the secured compartment (e.g., a USB)&#x2014;wherein such actions typically cannot be generated by an application running outside the secured compartment.

Secured compartment for transactions

The described implementations relate to unified application building. In one implementation unified application building tools can include a unifying component model configured to communicate with a set of components that are supported by different frameworks. The unified application building tools can also include a unification engine configured to bind events between individual components in a unified manner that is independent of an individual framework upon which individual components are supported.

Application building

The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates navigating smoothly and gracefully through any type of content viewable on portable devices such as cell-phones, PDAs, and/or any other hybrids thereof. In addition, such navigation can be performed while preserving perspective and context with respect to a larger amount of content. Pointing devices can also be used to navigate through content&#x2014;the amount or detail of the content being dependant on the speed of the pointing device. Additionally, a semi-transparent overview of content can be overlaid a zoomed-in portion of content to provide perspective to the zoomed in portion. Content shown in the semi-transparent overview can depend on the location of the pointing device with respect to the content.

Advanced navigation techniques for portable devices

The subject invention provides a unique interactive system and method that facilitate single-handed navigation and interaction with applications within a display space on any type of mobile computing device. The system and method include or employ scalable application tiles corresponding to applications, whereby the application tiles can provide or indicate the current state of the corresponding application. The state information provided in each tile can vary as well depending on the current size of the tile. The tiles can be arranged into a plurality of zones such that a user can view one particular zone at a time and obtain more context and information from the application tiles in that zone rather than working with all tiles and all zones at the same time. The view of the display space can be of the world or all application tiles, zone, or application. Panning and zooming among the zones, application tiles and/or views can be performed single-handedly using designated on or off screen controls.

The present invention relates to a system and methodology to provide a glanceable, interactive user interface associated with one or more prioritized informational items or notifications. Such items can be received from external sources and/or from a notification system, wherein priorities can be assigned by the sources and/or automatically determined by a computer-based prioritization system. The notifications are then arranged and/or located in a graphical display according to the assigned priorities, thus enabling a user to quickly glance at the display and determine how many items are pending, where items have originated from, and what urgency level is associated with respective items. Various shapes, locations, colors, and sounds are utilized in a variety of ergonomic configurations, some controlled by the invocation of a variety of filters and informational lenses to enable users to easily manage a plurality of information sources.

Scope user interface for displaying the priorities and properties of multiple informational items

Technologies are described herein for advertising with an influential participant in a virtual world. A facilitator rating is determined for each of a plurality of participants in the virtual world. The facilitator rating may indicate an influence of each of the plurality of participants on other participants in the virtual world. One or more participants are identified from the plurality of participants based on the facilitator rating. The one or more participants are utilized to provide an advertisement in the virtual world.

Advertising with an influential participant in a virtual world

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Daniel Chaim Robbins