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John E Elsbree

Mark A Malamud

David A Barnes

Christopher Lee Fraley

Christopher A Zimmerman

David R Fulmer

Jeffrey C Fong

Jeffrey Neil Margolis

Mark D Schwesinger

Kort Danner Sands

Marc S Oshiro

Erik A Gavriluk

Spencer I A N Hurd

Evan J Lerer

Stephane Joseph Comeau

William H Linzbach

David Fleishman

Hugh Vidos

David Ethan Zoller

Michelle Verena Niethammer

Colby D Boles

Dean Wayne Talley

Michael E Creasy

Royce A Levien

Satoshi Nakajima

Anders Hejlsberg

Richard L Hasha

Christopher Andrew Evans

Niels Van Dongen

Dale Alan Sather

Christopher J Guzak

Randy S Kimmerly

Michael W Van Flandern

Mark Jeffrey Weinberg

Laura Janet Butler

Nosherwan Minwalla

Michael C Miller

Timothy R Osborne

Guillaume Simonnet

Frederic Azera

Christen E Coomer

Eddie Fusaro

Joyce A Grauman

Ryan James D'Aurelio

Mark S Newell

Jay Senior

Bradford A Christian

Jeffrey T Pearce

Ovidiu G Temereanca

Daniel L Poling, Jr

Chad C Neff

Charles H Shoemaker

David E McCauley, Iii

Advay V Mengle

Kurt J Eckhardt

Scott Jensen

Shankar Balakrishnan

Louis M Kahn

Nermin Osmanovic

Mark St John Newell

Rajadurai Isaac Rajakumar

Valerie Horvath

Manuel A Schröder

Steve Madigan

A first video preview corresponding to a first video program is played back. When it is time to transition from playing back the first video preview to playing back a second video preview corresponding to a second video program, the transition is made from playing back the first video preview to playing back the second video preview. The transition can be made by sliding the first video preview off a display while sliding the second video preview onto the display. Additionally, metadata associated with the first video program can be displayed for an amount of time before playback of the first video preview ceases, and metadata associated with the second video program can be displayed for an amount of time after playback of the second video preview begins.

Video preview based browsing user interface

An application on a device includes multiple experience modules that each implement a set of features when the application is running on the device. Each of the multiple experience modules includes a first component that includes code specific to a particular type of the device, and a second component that includes code that is common across multiple types of devices. Update packages changing individual ones of the multiple experience modules can be received from a deployment service and installed on the device.

Applications including multiple experience modules

An exemplary computer-implementable method includes receiving a call from an application executing on a host computer, the host computer having a collection of graphical user interfaces, and, in response to the call, registering the application whereby the registering comprises providing one or more entry points for the application wherein each entry point corresponds to at least one of the graphical user interfaces of the collection of graphical user interfaces. Various other exemplary methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed.

Registration of applications and complimentary features for interactive user interfaces

Content gestures are described. In implementations, one or more controls are output to control output of content and for display in a user interface by a computing device. An input is recognized, by the computing device, which was detected using a camera as a gesture to interact with a particular one of the controls to control the output of the content.

Content gestures

A dynamic user interface for previewing live content includes multiple tiles. A selection can be received from a user to define a tiled user interface layout that includes the multiple tiles each configured to display content from an associated content gallery. The content can be displayed on the multiple tiles in the tiled user interface layout, and one or more of the tiles change over time to display different pieces of the content from the associated content gallery of a tile.

Dynamic user interface for previewing live content

A dynamic user interface for previewing live content includes multiple tiles. User interface layouts can be displayed that each have multiple tiles displaying multiple pieces of content, where the multiple pieces of content includes different types of content and each of the multiple tiles display a piece of the content. A command input can be received to change a current user interface layout, and a transition is initiated to display a next user interface layout that includes one or more of the multiple tiles displaying the multiple pieces of content or different multiple pieces of the content.

A system provides customized user interface data to a media application, such as a media discovery interface, or to any application for that matter, thereby extending the original application. Via a network connection, elements of the user interface can be downloaded to the application in a package of markup data and resources, including images, text, and links. A user interface framework of the media application processes the markup from the downloaded package and utilizes packaged resources, local code components, and externally-obtained (e.g., Web resources) to render a customized application page for the media application.

Customizing applications in a discovery interface

A dynamic user interface for previewing live content includes multiple tiles. Information for multiple pieces of live content available from a gallery is obtained, and this information is presented in the multiple tiles of the user interface in accordance with a current user interface layout. In accordance with one aspect, this current user interface layout changes automatically over time as the user interface is displayed. In accordance with another aspect, one or more of the multiple tiles is displayed in the user interface more prominently than the other tiles, and which information is to be displayed in the one or more tiles is based at least in part on a received fee.

An interface framework enables dynamic generation of a user interface for browsing online media content. The interface can be modified based on changing one or more configuration or data files rather than making changes to code. The files contain interface content, interface configuration parameters and content category information. The framework retrieves a collection of content corresponding to a category, configures the interface based on a set of parameters and the retrieved content, and provides the interface to a remote device. When the files used to generate the interface are modified, the interface provided by the framework thereafter is changed. As a result, the interface may be changed without modifying or adding any code or markup within the framework.

Declaratively composable dynamic interface framework

A system provides customized user interface data to a media application, such as a media discovery interface, or to any application for that matter, thereby extending the original application. Via a network connection, elements of the user interface can be downloaded to the application in a package of markup data and resources, including images, text, and links. A user interface framework of the media application processes the markup data from the downloaded package and utilizes packaged resources, local code components, and externally-obtained (e.g., Web resources) to render a customized application page for the media application. Based on a wide variety of computing system and user parameters, the offerings and application pages presented to the user can be filtered and/or reordered to be more appropriate for the computing system and user.

Customizing application page loading in a discovery interface

A system provides customized user interface data to a media application, such as a media discovery interface, or to any application for that matter, thereby extending the original application. Via a network connection, elements of a menu in a user interface can be downloaded to the application in a package of resources, including images, text, and links. A user interface framework of the media application processes a menu markup data resident on the local computer system and utilizes packaged resources, local code components, and externally-obtained (e.g., Web resources) to render a customized menu for the media application.

Customizing a menu in a discovery interface

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