Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jan H Karachale

Brian David Cross

Robert J Levy

Zeke Koch

Ori Amiga

Jason William Fuller

Ardan Arac

Darren Ray Davis

Megan Galbraith Donahue

Ramrajprabu Balasubramanian

Patrick Joseph Derks

Rhoniel Villano Manlapaz

William Scott Stauber

Kenton Allen Shipley

Alan Michael Bush

Rachel Jiang

Nishad Mulye

Amy Elizabeth Alberts

Vijayendra Gopalrao Vasu

Ashwini Kumar Varma

Nathan T Radebaugh

Paul Dykstra

A system for generating a user interface described herein can include a processor to detect a type of the system based on hardware components residing within the system or coupled to the system and determine a user interface manager to execute based on the type of the system. The processor can also execute the user interface manager to generate a user interface for the system, wherein the type of the user interface manager comprises a plurality of rules to indicate a layout of the user interface.

Rules based user interface generation

The subject disclosure is directed towards a task switching technology on a computing device such as a Smartphone. An application is comprised of one or more tasks. When a user requests that another task be executed, information about the previously executing task (e.g., including a screenshot) is preserved to a stack. If the user invokes a task switcher program, the user is presented with a view of the stack, e.g., containing the screenshots (and representative text) of the tasks that previously executed. The user may navigate among those presented task representations to arbitrarily select any one, with the selected task resumed upon selection.

Task switching on mobile devices

A unified mechanism for storing device, application, and service state, as well as a rich notification brokerage architecture includes a notification broker. Clients register with the notification broker to receive notifications for changes to state properties. When a registered state property changes, a notification broker determines which clients to notify of the state change and provides the client with a notification regarding the change. Clients may be notified whenever a state changes, when a state change meets a predetermined condition, or based on a schedule. An application may also be launched in response to a state change. An application programming interface (API) is provided that provides a unified way of accessing state change information across different components within the device.

Flexible architecture for notifying applications of state changes

Described is a method and system a unified mechanism for storing device, application, and service state, as well as a rich notification brokerage architecture. Clients register with a notification broker to receive notifications for changes to state properties. When a registered state property changes, a notification broker determines which clients to notify of the state change and provides the client with a notification regarding the change. Clients may be notified whenever a state changes, when a state change meets a predetermined condition, or based on a schedule. An application may also be launched in response to a state change. An application programming interface (API) is provided that provides a unified way of accessing state change information across different components within the device.

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Jan H Karachale