Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jason Stuart Schneekloth

Michael J Kruzeniski

Brian M Wilson

Paula Guntaur

Chad A Voss

Darren Alexander Apfel

Michael A Smuga

Ryan M Haning

Michael K Henderlight

Lawrence Fubini Waldman

Crystal L Hoyer

Thomas Charles Underhill

Christopher Michael Becker

Techniques are described to implement a user interface for a display of a mobile device. In an implementation, the user interface may include a chromeless menu configured to be displayed when menu-based user input to the mobile device is available; a system tray configured to be displayed on the display when a notice containing status information affecting operability of the mobile device is available; and a task switcher module operable to cause a chromeless overlay be displayed over an active application being executed by the mobile device to allow selection of one or more applications of the mobile device.

Chromeless user interface

Technologies are described herein for dynamically laying out images and associated text using pre-defined layouts. The pre-defined layouts are created and data defining the layouts is stored in a layout definition file. An application program provides a user interface for dynamically laying out the images and associated text using the contents of the layout definition file. The user interface includes a canvas onto which a user may place one or more images and a layout gallery through which a user may select a pre-defined layout to be applied to images placed on the canvas. The layout gallery includes selectable visual representations corresponding to each of the available pre-defined layouts. When one of the visual representations is selected, the corresponding pre-defined layout is dynamically applied to images on the canvas. The visual representations displayed in the layout gallery may also be utilized to generate a preview of the layout.

Dynamically laying out images and associated text using pre-defined layouts

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Jason Stuart Schneekloth