Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Google Inc.

Jae Pum Park

Judson Craig Hally

Jeremy S Knudsen

Richard Leigh Mains

Greg S Melander

Sean Anthony Rooney

Raman Kumar Sarin

Timothy Thomas Gray

Benjamin L Perry

Scott E Dart

Marc Anthony Salazar

Brian Peter Kralyevich

Joseph H Matthews, Iii

Chad Michael Roberts

Samuel Stevens Heyworth

Douglas James Herrington

Nirav Praful Desai

Bryan Todd Agnetta

Marc Brandon Hensley

Amirali Virani

Hannah McClellan Richards

Daniel Benjamin Rausch

David R Parlin

Stephan Josef Andrizzi

Alexander Sabo Brodie

James Kai Yu Lau

Sogol Malekzadeh

Jai Prakash Chabria

Nicole Dare

Paul Warren Smart

Apoorva Iyer

Amir Pelleg

Laura Allison Ridlehoover

Jeffrey Rosenberg

Kenneth DeLand

Anindya Guha

Nitish Kumar

Jessica Protasio

Monica Estela Gonzalez Veron

Jeffrey C Fong

Jeffery G Arnold

Michael Jay Gilmore

John B Shaw

Nino Yuniardi

Theodore Aaron Haberman

Jason Phillip Kriese

Cara Lyn Tyler

Kara Cavallaro

Kenneth Paul Hinckley

Jeffrey P Bezos

Aaron Michael Donsbach

Gregory Michael Hart

Brian Alexander Oliver

Michael Martin George

Rohit Prasad

Benjamin N Truelove

Aaron N Woo

Megan Galbraith Donahue

Jason Glenn Silvis

Jonathan Aroner

Sumit Kumar

Steven Michael Sommer

Ian Hunter Todd

Monica Gonzalez

Catherine Ann Hendricks

Maria Christine Renz

Charles Cummins

Daniel J Shapiro

Christopher Andrew Evans

Michael James Hone

Colin Ray Anthony

Michael J Connolly

Chad A Voss

Peter G Chin

Tyler Kien Beam

Anton Volkov

James M Lyon

Giampiero M Sierra

Martin Thomas Shetter

Paul Stephen Hellyar

Anthony T Chor

Matthias Baer

Suzan Marashi

Chunkit Jacky Chan

Kelly Elizabeth Rollin

Jingyang Xu

Ryan T Bickel

Udiyan Padmanabhan

Priyanka Singhal

Jannes Paul Peters

Blair Harold Beebe

Pritvinath Obla

Vibhunandan Gavini

John D Skovron

Clint C Jorgenson

Angela Lam

Craig Adam Beilinson

Sarah Siritaratiwat

Shabbir A Shahpurwala

Mike Dodge

Systems and methods for multi-attendee video conferencing are described. A system can perform spatial audio modulation techniques in video conference calls based on content type or participant role. In particular, by assigning user roles and content types to specific regions in a two- or three-dimensional audio sound space or 'soundstage,' users can identify&#x2014;simply by listening&#x2014;the source of the audio (e.g., who the current speaker is and/or whether the sound came from a specific type of content). Thus, in example implementations of the present disclosure, each of a number of conference roles and/or content types can be allocated a particular virtual location within the audio soundstage.

Spatial audio in video conference calls based on content type or participant role

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for creating custom user interface ('UI') controls. A networked computing service may determine that an action performed by a user of the service is likely to be repeated, based on previous actions performed by the user and/or other users, parameters of the action including characteristics of an item associated with the action, and other criteria. The networked computing service may generate, or recommend generation of, a custom UI control that automates performance of the action. The networked computing service may automatically determine parameters of the action, and may determine alternative parameters and/or alternative actions if the action cannot be performed using the determined parameters. Custom UI controls may be associated with various computing devices and/or other electronic devices, and categories of custom UI controls may be determined and displayed.

Creation of custom user interface controls that are associated with physical devices

Systems and methods for presenting a user interface in a first mode and a second mode based on detection of a touch gesture is described herein. In some embodiments, a first user interface may be presented on an electronic device's display. The first user interface may include a list of items, which may be formatted such that they are optimally viewable from a first distance away from the display. In response to detecting a touch gesture, such as a scrolling gesture, a second user interface may be presented including the list of items, which may be formatted such that they are optimally viewed from a second distance. For example, the first user interface may be optimally viewable from a distance of approximately seven to ten feet from the display. As another example, the second user interface may optimally viewable from a distance of approximately one to three feet.

Methods and devices for providing optimal viewing displays

Described are systems, methods, and apparatus that enable constraint based communications between two or more devices. For example, a first user of a first device may submit a communication request to establish a communication session with a second user and provide a constraint for that communication session, such as a time-limit (e.g., limit the communication session to five minutes). In such an example, if the second user accepts the communication request with the constraint, a communication session is established and the system monitors the communication session to determine when a condition corresponding to the constraint has been satisfied. When the condition is satisfied, the communication session is terminated by the system.

Modifying constraint-based communication sessions

Electronic devices, interfaces for electronic devices, and techniques for interacting with such interfaces and electronic devices are described. For instance, this disclosure describes an example electronic device that includes sensors, such as multiple front-facing cameras to detect orientation and/or location of the electronic device relative to an object and one or more inertial sensors. Users of the device may perform gestures on the device by moving the device in-air and/or by moving their head, face, or eyes relative to the device. In response to these gestures, the device may perform operations.

Mobile device interfaces

Mobile device applications

Constraint based communication sessions

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for selecting and displaying custom user interface ('UI') controls. A user of a networked computing service may create custom UI controls that perform user-specified actions, and the networked computing service may present these custom UI controls as part of its user interface. The networked computing service may determine which of a set of custom UI controls to present based on criteria such as frequency or recency of recurring usage, a context or a category associated with the custom UI controls, user preferences, the status of a pending action, usage of similar custom UI controls by other users, or other criteria. The networked computing service may present an interface that enables further customization or modification of the custom UI controls.

Selection and display of custom user interface controls

A system that generates a personalized content grouped by type and ordered by relevancy. The system determines relevant data for individual feature groups, determines first feature groups that have relevant data to display and displays a page of content for each of the first feature groups. For example, a first page of content may indicate a clock, temperature, weather forecast or timer, a second page of content may correspond to communications and indicate a recent message, a third page of content may correspond to a calendar and may indicate an upcoming event, a fourth page of content may correspond to shipping notifications and may indicate an upcoming shipment, a fifth page of content may correspond to contacts and may indicate an available favorite contact and a sixth page of content may correspond to trending news. The device may generate synthesized speech corresponding to the display of content.

Organization of personalized content

Systems and methods for displaying an audio indicator including a main portion having a width proportional to a volume of a particular phoneme of an utterance is described herein. In some embodiments, audio data representing an utterance may be received at a speech-processing system from a user device. The speech-processing system may determine a maximum volume amplitude for the utterance, and using the maximum volume amplitude, may determine a normalized amplitude value between 0 and 1 associated with a volume that phoneme's of an utterance are spoken. The speech-processing system may then map the normalized amplitude value(s) to widths for a main portion of an audio indicator, where larger normalized amplitude values may correspond to smaller main portion widths. Display data representing a graphical user interface may then be generated and sent to the user device, where the graphical user interface includes the audio indicator having its main portion of a particular width representative of a volume of each phoneme from the utterance.

Speech-based audio indicators

Automatic creation of custom user interface controls

Mobile device gestures

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