Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jonah Sterling

Jesse Francisco

Stephen Michael Danton

Dina-Marie LeDonne Supino

Jon Harris

Jodie Eilers

Jon Lee

Karandeep Singh Anand

William James Staples

Michael Bach

Adam Abdelhamed

Madhur Joshi

Muhammad Bilal Aslam

Jefferson King

Kristofer John Owens

Jonathan R Lucero

Vishal R Joshi

Leon Welicki

Jonathan Reed Harris

Brad Olenick

Alvaro Rahul Dias

Christopher Scrosati

Dina-Marie Ledonna Supino

Mo Wang

Federico Silva Armas

Brendyn Alexander

Nathan J Totten

Sunay Vaishnav

Wai Man Yuen

Justin Beckwith

Andrew Birck

Bradley D Millington

Syed Nadir Ahmed

Steven Sanderson

Tom Cox

Alaa Shaker

Nafisa Bhojawala

Timothy Michael McBride

David Anson

Julio O Casal

Guruprasad M Airy

Jamey Baumgardt

Guru Kumaraguru

Jean-Sebastien Guopil

An organization mode in a user interface that displays multiple user interface elements. The multiple user interface elements fit over a grid positions that are at least conceptually imposed over a canvas. In organization mode, the grid positions are displayed, allowing the user to more easily see where user interface elements may be placed. As the user moves and/or resizes a user interface element, one or more corresponding grid positions are highlighted to show where the user interface element would be placed if the move or resize operation were to conclude at that moment. The organization mode may also provide a contextual actions menu with respect to a particular user interface element. The contextual actions menu includes multiple organization mode commands, including one or more that may be directed selected from the contextual actions menu to invoke the command.

Organization mode support mechanisms

A model for displaying multiple user interface elements such that each control includes a container that includes standard functionality across at least a majority of the user interface elements. For instance, such standard functionality might include a part status indication, a title, a content status indication, a command invocation function, a part resizing function, and so forth. The model may also provide for standardization of resizing of user interface elements. For a given user interface element, there would be a predetermined number of possible size and shapes, each corresponding to a different projection of data. For instance, all of the user interface elements on a screen may fall within the predetermined number of possible size and shapes, thereby allowing more functional layout of the user interface on the display.

Context aware user interface parts

A gallery user interface element that includes multiple selectable service user interface elements. Each of the selectable service user interface elements, when selected, initiates a corresponding predetermined action. Thus, the gallery may be used to initiate any number of predetermined actions by selecting appropriate service user interface elements. The predetermined actions may be performed by a number of user interface elements that are collectively offered by a variety of different applications, application extensions, or the system itself. The predetermined actions may include at least one predetermined action that extends an extendible canvas with one or more additional user interface elements. The gallery may include multiple pinnable elements and have different versions depending on a context in which the gallery was opened.

Service gallery user interface presentation

A multi-act creation user interface element that is displayed when a user instructs a computing system to initiate creation of a resource that has multiple associated creation processing acts. For each of some or all of the creation processing acts, the multi-act creation user interface element causes a set of one or more controls to appear, which the user may then enter creation information into. The multi-step creation user interface element persists creation information so entered so that the creation information is available for further creation processing acts.

Multi-act creation user interface element

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with transitional graphical user interface

Display screen with icon

Growing community of inventors

Redmond, WA, United States of America

Jonah Sterling