Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Issa Yousef Khoury

Petteri Mikkola

Keri Kruse Moran

Elizabeth Fay Threlkeld

Darren Ray Davis

Ryan Pendlay

Ramrajprabu Balasubramanian

Patrick Joseph Derks

William Scott Stauber

Kenton Allen Shipley

Giorgio Francesco Sega

Mohammed Kaleemur Rahman

Abolade Gbadegesin

Vikram Madan

Andrew John Fuller

Sterling M Reasor

Ravipal S Soin

Ross Nathaniel Luengen

David Switzer

Min Liu

Holger Kuehnle

Lijuan Qin

Gregory Alan Howard

Allen Marshall

Michael S Bernstein

Susan Chory

Judy C Tandog

Matthew H Holle

Gerhard A Schobbe

Brent Edward Ford

Brian David Cross

Peter M Bergler

Guy Barker

Tony He

Tse-Ching Yu

Jon Arnett

Andrei Kozlov

Janis Jungeun Lee

David John Woods

Geralyn M Miller

Peter Mikkola

Ryan Chandler Pendlay

A mobile computing device, such as a smartphone or tablet device, can be coupled to any one or more of multiple display devices at any given time. The mobile computing device allows the home screen displayed on the display devices to be dynamic, changing based on which display device the mobile computing device is coupled to. The mobile computing device can also be coupled to multiple different display devices concurrently, and different home screens are concurrently displayed on those different display devices. User inputs changing the information displayed on the home screen can also be received, and a record of the change is maintained by the computing device so the changed home screen for a particular display device is again displayed to the user the next time the mobile computing device is coupled to that display device.

Automatic home screen determination based on display device

Various models may enable a first device to share a device resource with a second device in various contexts, such as sharing computing sessions via terminal services; sharing displays via display mirroring; and sharing input components across devices. However, such techniques often utilize ad hoc sharing models that depend on configuration and/or administrative access of each device; limit the capabilities of such sharing; and/or exhibit security concerns. Instead, a target device may advertise an availability of a target device resource. A host device may request the target device to lend the target device resource to the computing environment of the host device. The target device may reserve the target device resource for the host device, which may then integrate the target device resource into the host computing environment. The model may enable the user to utilize resources even from target devices that the user is not otherwise permitted to use.

Lending target device resources to host device computing environment

In many computing scenarios, a user of a primary device may wish to incorporate an auxiliary device in the presentation of an application. Such incorporation may involve a terminal services session that projects the computing environment of the primary device onto the auxiliary device; mirroring the computing environment of the primary device through the auxiliary device; and/or utilizing applications that interoperate with client applications executing on the second device. However, such techniques may not fully reflect the properties of each device, and/or may only apply to particular applications and/or configurations. Instead, the primary device may adapt the primary computing environment to an auxiliary computing environment according to a device property of the auxiliary device; partition the application into a primary application portion presented within the primary computing environment and an auxiliary application portion presented within the auxiliary computing environment; and transmit the auxiliary computing environment to the auxiliary device.

Partitioned application presentation across devices

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for content projection. For example, a communication connection may be established between a primary device (e.g., a smart phone) of a user and a secondary device (e.g., a television). The primary device may identify an interest of the user to view content on the secondary device (e.g., photos for a recently attended concert). The primary device may retrieve the content (e.g., local photos on the smart phone and/or photos remotely retrieved from a social network). The primary device may project a rendering of the content onto a secondary display of the secondary device (e.g., the smart phone may send the rendering over the communication connection to the television for display).

Content projection

A user may interact with a collection of devices that each exhibit particular device properties. Where each device executes and presents an isolated computing environment, inconsistencies may arise in the user interaction by the user with different devices. Alternatively, a terminal server may present a computing environment to various auxiliary devices, but such presentation may fail to utilize some device properties of some devices, and/or may present a computing environment that is not suitable for some devices. Instead, a primary device of the device collection may adapt a primary computing environment to an auxiliary computing environment for each auxiliary device, based upon its device properties. Upon receiving a request to execute an application, the primary device may execute the application within the auxiliary computing environment, and may adapt the application based upon the device properties. The primary device may stream each auxiliary computing environment to the respective auxiliary device.

Presentation of computing environment on multiple devices

A computing device, and method thereof, may have a first display. A first user input is received from an input device of the computing device. In response, a task manager is displayed, the task manager having representations of respective objects on the computing device. When a second user input is received via the input device, a target representation is selected according to the second user input and an application window of an application corresponding to the target representation is displayed on the second display.

Gesture for task transfer

Various user interfaces and other technologies for interacting with devices that support multiple communication lines can be implemented. Scenarios providing separate communications lines, such as voice over internet protocol (VOIP), social network communications, and the like can be supported. For example, communication-line-separated and communication-line-aggregated user interface paradigms can be supported. Intelligent selection of an appropriate paradigm can support user preferences, conversation user interfaces, and the like. Other features such as communication line defaults can help users deal with multiple communication line scenarios. A consistent, compact user interface for switching communication lines can be supported. Users can interact with their devices more efficiently and with less frustration. A wide variety of use scenarios are supported.

Intelligent user interfaces for multiple communication lines

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

A mobile computing device has a processor and storage, connected to the processor and storing computer program instructions for an operating system for the computing device. The mobile computing device also may include a display and a communications radio. An electrical connection is provided for connection to a removable battery that provides power to the components of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device also includes an auxiliary power source configured to provide power to the components of the mobile computing device when the removable battery is not supplying sufficient power. In response to the auxiliary power source being used, the operating system performs a set of actions that prioritize processes executed by the processor, manage power utilization by those processors, communicate information to the user about available power and, in some instances, gracefully degrade operation of the processes.

Managing battery power utilization in a mobile computing device

Systems and methods for constructing a live panoramic view from real-time streaming digital image data may include, by a computing device in real-time and for each identified digital image of a plurality of received digital images, a location of the received digital image may be determined within a panoramic view. The panoramic view may be updated with the received digital image based on the determined location, and the updated panoramic view may be displayed. The plurality of digital images may include standard video frames and/or optimized video frames received with the real-time streaming digital image data. The optimized video frames may be captured with one or more associated imaging parameters optimized for use in the panoramic view.

Receiver-controlled panoramic view video share

A network usage manager in an operating system executing on a mobile device is configured to enable selection among different cellular data connections by application ('app') or by app class so that end users can tailor cellular network allocation, app performance, and costs to meet their specific needs while mobile operators can improve network utilization and provide more comprehensive data plan offerings. The network usage manager applies app usage policies to select among different cellular data connections which may be supported on the mobile device using single or multiple SIM/UICC (Subscriber Identity Module/Universal Integrated Circuit Card) cards. The app usage policies can be set for a given app or class of app on the mobile device so that, for example, apps that implement background synchronization processes can use typically less expensive, lower bandwidth connections while typically more expensive, higher bandwidth connections are selected for data intensive apps.

Network selection for a given application or context

Example embodiments concern reducing the negative impacts of camera motion during video capture. Processing, transmitting, or displaying motion compromised video data yields inefficient use of bandwidth, battery power, memory, and other resources. Watching video acquired from a moving video camera may induce motion sickness. Unlike conventional systems that attempt to address motion by increasing frame capture rates to produce better individual frames, example embodiments identify frames that are compromised by motion data and do not provide or present them for viewing. Compromised frames may be logically or physically deleted from a video stream or memory. Motion may be detected by physical apparatus (e.g., accelerometer) or through image processing (e.g., motion artifacts, low correlation between frames, low signal-to-noise ratio). A display device may be controlled to operate in a video display mode or a still frame mode depending on motion detected in captured video frames.

Handling video frames compromised by camera motion

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