Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Eric Boller Fleegal

Robert D Young

Xianfeng Tian

Jim Tom Belesiu

Amar Vattakandy

Chris Whitman

Sarah Graham Williams

Brian Ostergren

Scott Robert Honji

Daniel M Sangster

Kevin John Smith

William Roger Voss

Gregory Joseph Canessa

Jonathan Todd David

Richard Shailer Turner, Jr

Mark Vulfson

Michael Anthony Harlich

Richard Turner

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for utilizing input data received from an indirect interaction device (e.g., mouse, touchpad, etc.) to launch, engage, and/or close, etc. an object within a user interface. For example, a sensory surface of the indirect interaction device may be divided into two (or more) portions, a first portion utilized to launch, engage, and/or close an object and a second portion utilized to navigate (e.g., a cursor) within the user interface. When an object is launched based upon receipt of a predefined gesture(s), the first portion of the sensory surface may be mapped to the object to provide for interaction with the object via an interaction between a contact (e.g., finger) and the first portion. Also, the surface area of the first portion may be altered (e.g., enlarged) when it is mapped to the object and/or according to operations performed on the object.

User interface indirect interaction

Various embodiments related to a host computing device for rendering and sending image data to a peripheral device for display at the peripheral device. For example, one embodiment comprises a host computing device, the host computing device comprising a data storage subsystem and a logic subsystem. The host computing device further comprises instructions stored in the data storage subsystem and executable by the logic subsystem to output to the peripheral device a frame of image data representing a difference between a currently rendered image and an (N&#x2212;1)-th previously rendered image, N being an integer and having a value of 3 or more.

Updating image in buffer via difference data

Data simulation using host data storage chain

A computing system includes one or more input-device user-interface runtime applications to dynamically display images on a dynamic input device. The one or more input-device user-interface runtime applications are executed in a currently active desktop. The computing system further includes a dominant application configured to execute in the currently active desktop. The dominant application is configured to specify an input-device user-interface runtime application corresponding to a current context of the dominant application. The specified input-device user-interface runtime application is configured to dynamically display virtual controls on the dynamic input device. The specified input-device user-interface runtime application is also configured to report activation of the virtual controls to the dominant application.

Contextual control of dynamic input device

A user interface screen is displayed on a gaming device that provides both a first selectable item that indicates the ability to download games to the gaming device and a second selectable item that indicates the ability to view games that are stored on at least one storage device in the gaming device. The user interface is associated with the gaming device instead of with an individual application.

Console integrated downloadable game service

An API schema language and transformation techniques allow an application programming interface to be defined in a markup language. This interface definition can then be transformed into a non-markup language source file. Examples of transformation techniques include techniques to transform the interface definition into a component object model (COM) header file, a documentation file that describes the contents of the non-markup language source file, and a proxy object code file.

API schema language and transformation techniques

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Eric Boller Fleegal