Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Joseph T Fletcher

Lisa C Anderson

Jennifer Laurie Shetterly

Nadja J Haldimann

Dane Trevor Storrusten

Blaine J Carpenter

Joy Yun-Jung Chen

Thomas S Bouchard

Craig M Combel

Omar Acosta

Eran Shtiegman

Amritansh Raghav

Justin Michael Maguire

Solomon Michael Bisker

Cameron John Parker

Jerome Thomas Holman

Michael D Cronin

Mehal H Shah

Michael H Miller

A facility is described for providing shared telepointers and for enabling hosts and participants to highlight portions of documents or applications using the shared telepointers. In various embodiments, the facility establishes a sharing session wherein an application executing on a host computing device is shared with a participant computing device, receives at the host computing device an indication from a participant computing device to identify a region to users in the sharing session, draws the identified region on a display device associated with the host computing device, and causes the identified region to be drawn on a display device associated with the participant computing device. In various embodiments, the region is a spot region or a highlighted region that is drawn in a color associated with a user of the participant computing device.

Shared telepointer

Display screen with an icon

A facility for annotating media files is described. In various embodiments, the facility displays a timeline indicating a duration of the media file, determines that an annotation is associated with the media file, and displays in an area near the timeline an indication of the associated annotation. In various embodiments, the facility displays a timeline indicative of a duration of the media file, receives an indication to add an annotation at an annotation time relative to the duration of the timeline, receives and stores an annotation, associates the annotation with the annotation time, and displays an indication of the stored annotation at an area near the timeline.

Annotating multimedia files along a timeline

Display screen with a color icon

Graphical user interface for a portion of a display screen

Icon for a portion of a display screen

Set of color icons for a portion of a display screen

User interface for a portion of a display screen

Image for a portion of a display screen

Set of icons for a portion of a display screen

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Joseph T Fletcher