Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Daniel Richard Albertson

Ariel Braunstein

John Furlan

Barry Christopher Allyn

Aaron H Averbuch

Matthew Tebbs

John-Anthony Owens

Alan Pearson

Rodney Bruce Smith

Mark Carroll

Thomas E Logan

Technologies are described herein for providing a dynamic preview of diagram elements to be inserted into a flowchart or other diagram. Through the use of the embodiments presented herein, a diagramming application program displays a preview of diagram elements to be inserted into a diagram by an element insertion control on a drawing canvas when a cursor is placed over the element insertion control for threshold period of time. The preview is displayed until the mouse cursor is moved away from the element insertion control or the element insertion control is selected.

Dynamic preview of diagram elements to be inserted into a diagram

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for interacting with one or more client devices coupled to a smart network host device within a smart home network. The method includes the steps of identifying a first application that is associated with at least one client device and stored in an first application store coupled to a smart home network, downloading the first application from the first application store for execution, associating a service that is exposed by the at least one client device with the first application, translating a high-level instruction generated by the first application via the service to a low-level instruction that is understood by the at least one client device, and transmitting the low-level instruction to the at least one client device for processing.

Identifying and downloading an application associated with a service registered in a home network

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Daniel Richard Albertson