Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jiwon Choi

Sergey Kisselev

Aaron Naoyoshi Sheung Yan Woo

Brian Eric Uphoff

Thomas Henry Alphin, Iii

Sung Joon Won

Remi Wesley Ogundokun

Samuel George Gates

Muhammad Atif

Thomas Henry Iii Alphin

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Technologies are described for resuming activities using activity data collected by an operating system. An operating system provides an application programming interface ('API') through which applications can submit activity data. The activity data identifies an application and an activity previously performed using the application. The activity data can be presented to users in a UI that includes UI controls corresponding to the reported activities. The UI controls can identify the activity and the application used to perform the activity. The UI controls can be presented in an order determined based upon the time at which the corresponding activity was performed. The UI controls can be selected to resume the corresponding activity. Functionality can also be provided for scrolling through the UI controls, searching the activity data, filtering the represented activities, deleting the activity data corresponding to an activity, and performing other functions.

Resumption of activities using activity data collected by an operating system

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Shutdown notification techniques are described in which notifications associated with various applications and functionality of a device are presented in conjunction with a shutdown sequence. In one or more implementations, a shutdown of the device may be initiated automatically in response to low power conditions, device/application errors, restarts, or explicitly by a user. A notification system of a device may be configured to enable designation of particular notifications to show upon shutdown. Notifications to output at shutdown may be selected based upon various criteria including but not limited to selection based on a perceived importance, notification type, particular application(s), and/or particular user contacts. When a shutdown is initiated, a check is performed to determine whether any designated notifications are available. Then, available notifications may be exposed in various ways prior to complete shutdown, such as by showing the notifications as part of a user interface(s) for the shutdown sequence.

Shutdown notifications

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