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George G Robertson

Mary P Czerwinski

Daniel Chaim Robbins

Brian R Meyers

Desney S Tan

Roland Lucas Fernandez

Maarten Roderik Van Dantzich

Kim Cameron

Gregory Ray Smith

Patrick Markus Baudisch

Kenneth Paul Hinckley

Bongshin Lee

Oscar E Murillo

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Nuria M Oliver

Steven William Macbeth

Kirsten C Risden

Steven Mark Drucker

Murali R Krishnan

Brian Scott Ruble

Stella Yick Chan

Eric J Horvitz

Stewart P MacLeod

Amy Kathleen Karlson

Jason Joseph Weber

James H Booth

Christian Olaf Abeln

Lev Boris Nachmanson

Jakob Peter Nielsen

William Guthrie Morein

Luc Clement

Joshua W Lee

Susan Theresa Dumais

Maneesh Agrawala

Mark Robbin Brown

Michael Victor Ehrenberg

Christian Bernd Schormann

Greg R Smith

Sean Boon

Benjamin L Chronister

Timothy K Olson

David D Thiel

Morten Holm-Peterson

Barry James Givens

Elin R Pedersen

Dugald R Hutchings

Gur Kimchi

Matthew Jay Kotler

Chris Demetrios Karkanias

Curtis Glenn Wong

Gina Danielle Venolia

Edward Bryan Cutrell

David Francis Gainer

Brian L Welcker

B Scott Ruble

Robert Anthony DeLine

Matthew Conway

John Edward Churchill

Morten Holm-Petersen

Prasad Sripathi Panditharadhya

Susan E Dziadosz

Gonzalo A Ramos

Yin Xie

Ian Michael Dunmore

Alexandre Gorev

Nathan Paul McCoy

Jacob T Biehl

Stephen A Jacquot

Dennis R Proffitt

Thomas Michael Casey

Ahmed K Kamal

Tovi Samuel Grossman

David Earl Heckerman

Anoop Gupta

Benjamin Edward Rampson

Raman Kumar Sarin

John C Tang

Trishul A Chilimbi

Greg D Schechter

Jonathan Jay Cadiz

Jason David Carlson

Gavin Jancke

Brian Scott Aust

Timothy Garry Dwyer

Udaya Kumar Bhaskara

Oscar Gerardo Naim

Jeanine E Spence

David M Sirkin

Uday Bhaskara

Tara L Matthews

Roger Leuder

Tobias Hans Hoellerer

Meredith J Ringel

Jeremy Goecks

Kristen C Risden

Kelley T Maves

Gregory D Schechter

Maarten Van Dantzich

Christian Pich

Sonia Patricia Carlson

A collaborative phone-based file exchange technique that wirelessly synchronizes a user's work context with his or her mobile phone and makes this context readily available and sharable in collaborative situations. When the user is away from their desk, collaboration with others is possible by sharing/downloading between the mobile phone and a paired PC, which may be a colleague's computer or a meeting room workstation/computer. When the user returns to their office, any recently downloaded files are automatically synchronized back to their office PC.

Collaborative phone-based file exchange

A hierarchical shared resources spatial visualization system and method including a visualization runtime user interface that quickly and efficiently displays a spatial layout of a shared resource having a hierarchical nature. The user interface provides a spatial layout of the hierarchical shared resource and overlays salient activity information of a group's interaction with the shared resource. In software development, the user interface provides software teams with awareness of activity by other developers in the group regarding files in the shared source code base. The salient activity includes active file information (such as which files are open and by whom) and source repository actions (such as a developer's activity within a project's source repository system). Visual geometry and colors are employed to create a visually distinctive environment that is used to convey the salient activity information quickly and efficiently.

Spatial layout of hierarchical shared resources

A system (and corresponding methodology) by which a user can interact directly with visual data is provided. The system employs associations and relationships between visual data objects to automatically update objects based upon a change in other objects. The innovation also provides specialized controls (e.g., dashboard tools/controls) that facilitate manipulation of visual data. As there can be numerous manners in which a user can interact with visualization data, the innovation enables a specialized set of controls to be identified and provided to a user thereby reducing overwhelming effects of a large number of controls.

Dashboard controls to manipulate visual data

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

Some examples relate to facilitating multi-tasking in a computing environment. A focus area component defines a focus area within a display space&#x2014;the focus area occupying a subset area of the display space area. A scaling component scales display objects as a function of proximity to the focus area, and a behavior modification component modifies respective behavior of the display objects as a function their location of the display space. Some implementations provide for interaction technique(s) and user interface(s) in connection with managing display objects on a display surface. Further, some examples define a central focus area, such that the display objects are displayed and behave as usual. Also included is a periphery outside the focus area where the display objects are reduced in size based on their location, getting smaller as the display objects near an edge of the display surface with many more objects visible.

Scaling of displayed objects with shifts to the periphery

A system facilitates dynamic data visualizations. The system includes an analysis component that periodically processes one or more incoming data streams to determine a visualization form from a plurality of visualization forms. A visualization component dynamically generates the visualization form based in part on the processing of the incoming data streams.

Visualization of streaming real-time data

A graphical user interface in which object thumbnails are rendered in a three-dimensional environment and which exploits spatial memory. The objects may be moved, continuously, with a two-dimensional input device. Pop-up title bars may be rendered over active objects. Intelligent help may be provided to the user, as visual indicators, based on proximity clustering or based on matching algorithms. The simulated location of the object thumbnails in a direction orthogonal to the surface is based on function, such as a linear, polynomial, or exponential function for example, of one or more object properties, such as number of mouse clicks since selected, age, size, etc.

Methods, apparatus and data structures for providing a user interface to objects, the user interface exploiting spatial memory and visually indicating at least one object parameter

A 'Memory Allocation Visualizer' provides a dynamic visualization that animates memory allocation event trace information over a time period of execution of a program. Consequently, the Memory Allocation Visualizer provides a visualization and understanding of a program's memory system behavior. Various modes of display with custom color mappings and zooming allow the user to see how heaps are used over time (e.g., by allocation type, age, size, thread id, etc.). Custom displays also allow the user to detect potential memory leaks and fragmentation problems. Composable filters enable the user to focus on specific issues. Various techniques are used to enable processing of a very large numbers of trace events while enabling rapid response to visualization view changes.

Memory allocation visualization for unmanaged languages

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 claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can support a declarative model-based approach to designing, constructing, and rendering visualizations. By complying with a declarative descriptor, components can be readily customized by way of modifications to the model&#x2014;declaratively specifying suitable features, behaviors, appearances and so forth. The descriptors that conform to the model can also facilitate connecting to various data sources and performing data transformation operations. Moreover, the descriptors that conform to the model can declaratively specify relationships based upon a scene layout. Accordingly, the architecture can further describe the scene layout and provide features based upon the layout.

Declarative approach for visualization

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