Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Justin Ayers

Gregory Alan Howard

Chunshui Zhao

George Evangelos Roussos

Paul Wang

Example apparatus and methods concern a first off-the-shelf device (e.g., game console, laptop) that may lack a sensor interacting with a second off-the-shelf device(s) (e.g., smart phone, tablet) that has a sensor. The first device may ask remote devices to expose sensors, may select a remote device and sensor to work with, may control communications between the devices and may use the sensor data provided by the second data to run an application on the first device. The application may be acquired from a consumer-oriented application repository, may require sensor data, and may run unmodified on the first device due to the availability of the sensor data from the second device. The combination of devices improves the capability of the first device, saves energy, and reduces computing complexity. A game console or application written for the game console may perform better using sensor data from a remote device.

Sensor data availability from remote devices

Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating the quick capture and management of task list (i.e., 'to-do') items are disclosed. Such systems, methods and computer program products allow a user of a computing device to access a persistently and ubiquitously executing stand-alone application that facilitates a capture solution that supports multiple input modalities&#x2014;voice, image, video, handwriting and text. This allows the quick capture and creation of to-do's anytime and anywhere. Once captured, the device may use a combination of natural language processing with the power of an internet search engine to identify, organize, and surface relevant content and context for a user as a reminder of such captured to-do's.

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