Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

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Joseph Spencer King

Russell Dicker

Elizabeth Picchietti Salowitz

Albert Peter Yih

Joseph H Matthews, Iii

Michael Dean Stokes

Raman Kumar Sarin

Joseph Ternasky

Joseph Alton Schrader

Adam Clyde Eversole

Ted Tai-Yu Chen

Robert L C Parker

Michael M Byrd

Andrew Scott Craft

Shai Guday

Sharad Agarwal

Waqas Syed Ahmed

Michael Patrick Bacus

Michael B Orr

Steven E Weil

Nathan W Everett

Lisa Joy Stifelman

Alice Jane Bernheim Brush

Daniel R Dole

Eric Allen Menninga

James G Robinson

Keith S Brintzenhofe

Craig Reeves Brookes

Wainwright Gregory Siady Yu

Brandon LaBranche Watson

Chad Michael Roberts

Oliver H Foehr

Aaron Naoyoshi Sheung Yan Woo

Shawna Julie Davis

Naud Frijlink

Lutz Gerhard

David Ornstein

Richard Fang

Shawn M Thomas

Roy F Price

Lee Dicks Clark

Shane Jeremy Landry

Gregory Alan Howard

Robert A Relyea

Andrew Paul Begun

Marc B McDonald

Alla Taborisskaya

Nikunj Aggarwal

Michael Burt Goulding

David A Braun

Sharath Viswanathan

Robert Wayne Roth

Geoffrey Von Limbach

Roger F Grambihler

Ramya Dass

Alan Bennett Auerbach

Andrew Haon

Manigandan Natarajan

Christer Garbis

Eric Chen

Leo Tian Yue

Ian Hunter Todd

Emily Grace Sappington

Amanda Font

Sridhar Sampath

Joon Hao Chuah

Michael Neil Loholt

Peter A Schwabland

Seth Daniel Micarelli

Gregory Nicholas Hullender

Jeffery G Arnold

Jason Matthew Cahill

Jerry Jay Dunietz

Andrey Shur

Scott Allen Mongrain

Andrew Olcott

Lokesh Joshi

Daniel Emerson

Sriram Subramanian

Theodore Aaron Haberman

Andrea Michelle Simons

John Yovin

Wei Zhu

Christopher Alan Glein

Vasant Manohar

Josh Phillips

John D Skovron

Cara Lyn Tyler

Hanna Mclaughlin

Mouni Reddy

Jeremiah T Whitaker

Young Gah Kim

Surendran Rangasamy

Mohammad A Kanso

Mugunthan Govindaraju

Prannoy Vargis C

Stephen W Swales

Michael Erik Carl Bjorkegren

Aaron D Wilson

Gregory J Meyers

Technologies are disclosed for providing visual feedback during touch-based operations on user interface ('UI') elements. Through implementations of the disclosed technologies, visual feedback can be provided to users during certain touch-based operations on UI elements presented by virtual reality (“VR”) devices. The visual feedback can provide confirmation to users that certain operations on UI elements were performed successfully. The visual feedback provided by the disclosed technologies can make it easier for users to select a UI element, to understand that actions taken to select a UI element were successful, and to successfully perform operations on UI elements once they have been selected. These benefits can reduce the number of times users need to attempt certain operations on UI elements. This, in turn, can reduce the utilization of computing resources, such as memory and processor cycles, by devices implementing the disclosed technologies.

Providing visual feedback during touch-based operations on user interface elements

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for executing gesture operations are provided. A touchpad gesture manager and a touchscreen gesture manager may be maintained. Both managers may comprise the identities of gesture operations and conditions for executing the gesture operations. The conditions for one or more touchscreen gesture operations may be the same as the conditions for one or more corresponding touchpad gesture operations. The gestures that have same conditions for the touchscreen and the touchpad may comprise application window operations and virtual desktop transition operations. In some examples, one or more display elements, animations, or intermediate operations may be different in executing the touchscreen operations than for executing the touchpad operations.

Coherent gestures on touchpads and touchscreens

Techniques for adjusting a posture of an operating system mode for a touch-enabled computing device based on combinations of user preferences and user input modality signals. Various adjustments to the posture of the operating system mode do not impact whether particular user interface elements are present but rather alter characteristics with which these particular user interface elements are rendered. Posture adjustments to an operating system mode occur based on combinations user input modality signals and user preferences not to enter another mode in which particular user interface elements are no longer displayed within a task bar along a peripheral edge. An object of designing an operating system mode to have multiple different postures with common user interface elements displayed in the task bar while adjusting the characteristics thereof is to preserve the user familiarity across postures while optimizing graphical layouts to accommodate for a current user input modality.

Adjusting operating system posture for a touch-enabled computing device based on user input modality signals

Technologies are disclosed for providing visual feedback during touch-based operations on user interface ('UI') elements. Through implementations of the disclosed technologies, visual feedback can be provided to users during certain touch-based operations on UI elements presented by touch-enabled computing devices. The visual feedback can provide confirmation to users that certain touch-based operations on UI elements were performed successfully. The visual feedback provided by the disclosed technologies can make it easier for users to select a UI element, to understand that actions taken to select a UI element were successful, and to successfully perform operations on UI elements once they have been selected. These benefits can reduce the number of times users need to attempt certain touch-based operations on UI elements. This, in turn, can reduce the utilization of computing resources, such as memory and processor cycles, by touch-enabled computing devices implementing the disclosed technologies.

Providing a random factoid in response to a user trigger is provided. Aspects are directed to a device, method, and computer-readable medium to provide random factoids responsive to a triggering event. Various inputs such as user taps, gestures, voice commands, environment commands, etc., are monitored to recognize a triggering event associated with the random factoid system. Upon determining that the input is a triggering event, a random factoid is randomly selected and provided to the user. The factoid can be a fun fact or a helpful learning tip. In some examples, the random factoid system provides a contextual random factoid based one or more contextual factors, such as geographic location of the device, the user's interaction history, the user's demographic data, etc., thus providing an improved user experience.

Random factoid generation

Embodiments provide integrated reply functionality within the context of a contact card or panel. Contact information is provided for display in the contact card (e.g., a portion of a user interface of a computing device). The contact information is associated with a contact. The contact information identifies one or more transport modes for communication with the contact. In some embodiments, the computing device receives a request from a user to communicate with the contact via at least one selected transport mode. Based on the received request, the computing device provides an input field within the contact card. In other embodiments, the transport mode is automatically selected and the input field is displayed. Data from the user is received into the input field for communication to the contact. The computing device sends the data received into the input field to the contact via the selected transport mode. The integrated reply functionality is accessible from a conversation history displayed in the contact card.

Integrated contact card communication

Virtual bookmarks can be set in digital content to enable a user to quickly locate a portion of interest. A user can provide an input to enter into an overview mode wherein multiple pages of content are displayed concurrently. The user can navigate through the pages, and when a bookmarked page is caused to no longer appear on the display an overlay element such as a thumbnail of the page can be positioned near the edge of the display, representing the current relative location of the page in the overview. A user can select one of the displayed pages to view, or can select the bookmark overlay element to return to the current page. A user can perform an action to cause the bookmarked page to be updated, or can perform various actions to cause multiple bookmarks to be created with respect to the content.

Bookmark overlays for displayed content

Some implementations include identifying conflicts between multiple layers of supplementary content associated with a digital work (e.g., an electronic book). For individual conflicts between layers of supplementary content at one or more locations within the digital work, conflicts between layers may be resolved in favor of a higher priority layer. Upon resolution of the conflict, information associated with the higher priority layer for supplementing content at a particular location in the digital work may be determined. A visual identifier of the higher priority layer may be displayed along with content associated with the digital work at the particular location.

Supplementary content layers

Techniques are provided for selectively and dynamically determining one or more words of an electronic book to present with comprehension guides. For instance, an electronic device rendering an electronic book may determine whether to display some, all, or no words of the book with comprehension guides for words within the electronic book based on word difficulty, contextual importance or aspects of the user. Techniques are also provided for determining the content of comprehension guides to be presented with the words.

Selective display of comprehension guides

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for dynamic color adjustment of electronic content. In one embodiment, a system may determine a first background color corresponding to a color theme for use in presentation of electronic content, the color theme further specifying a first text color for displaying text. The system may convert the first text color to hue-saturation-value (HSV) color space, and modify a brightness component of the first text color to generate a second text color. The system may determine a first contrast ratio between the second text color and the first background color, and determine that the first contrast ratio satisfies a first threshold contrast ratio. The system may display the electronic content using the first background color, the electronic content including text having the second text color.

Dynamic color adjustment of electronic content

Disclosed are techniques and systems to detect a layout of a source document. A process may include receiving content from a first page and a second page of the source document, designating sections in each page along a first direction of the page, and assigning similar sections to a group. For the group, the process may proceed by dividing sections for each page into discrete portions associated with 2D coordinate areas, and identifying sets of 2D coordinate areas for the discrete portions that contain content. The number of times each portion contains some content may be compared to a threshold to determine a layout of the group of sections.

Detection of layouts in electronic documents

This application describes systems, methods, and techniques for presenting supplemental information. The systems, methods, and techniques described herein determine that a message includes a keyword and, based at least on the identified keyword, determine at least one item to recommend. The message can be annotated with an identifier of the recommended item, and responsive to activation of the identifier, the supplemental information regarding the item can be presented.

Strategies for presenting a recommendation as supplemental information

Computing resources may automatically generate a rough draft of storyboard by using textual analysis to extract meaning from a screenplay. The storyboard may be accompanied by spoken dialogue, sound effects, and a soundtrack. Users may provide pre-production decisions regarding appearance of characters and backgrounds. The users may include a community of different individuals who contribute content and suggest modifications to the storyboard. The computing resources may also access logic to select visual elements for the storyboard from libraries of existing content or from custom content prepared by one of the users. Pagination of the screenplay and location of dialogue and action on the pages of the screenplay may be used to create a timeline for the storyboard and any accompanying audio.

Automated creation of storyboards from screenplays

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