Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

David John Woods

Darren Ray Davis

Ryan Pendlay

Ramrajprabu Balasubramanian

Patrick Joseph Derks

Issa Yousef Khoury

William Scott Stauber

Kenton Allen Shipley

Petteri Mikkola

Elizabeth Fay Threlkeld

Keri Kruse Moran

In many computing scenarios, a computing environment of a device may present applications through various presentation components, such as displays, speakers, and headphones. However, navigating among the applications currently presented within the computing environment may be difficult for the user; e.g., for a device presenting many applications on many displays that share an application stack, the application that the user wishes to select may be buried deep within the shared application stack. In accordance with the techniques presented herein, the device may generate an application presentation history for each presentation component, indicating applications that have previously been presented through the presentation component. A request to transition a selected presentation component away from a current application presentation may be fulfilled by identifying a second application having an application presentation in the application presentation history of the selected presentation component, and transitioning the selected presentation component to the second application.

Component-specific application presentation histories

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