Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Lyon Wong

Jensen Michael Harris

Michael Jay Gilmore

Manav Mishra

Rolf Arnold Ebeling

Scott David Hoogerwerf

Benjamin J Karas

Tyler Kien Beam

Steven J Ball

David Fields

Richard Jacob White

Matthew P Duignan

Dennis L Davis

Robert H Liao

Anshul Rawat

Relja Ivanovic

Jerry K Koh

Steve Seixeiro

David Earl Washington

David Burg

Ramkumar Ramasubramanian

Lindsey R Noll

Jason Alan Christensen

Kavitha Radhakrishnan

Brendan M Dohm

Aryeh N Polsky

Adam C Lusch

Aaron W Cardwell

Gurjot S Brar

Tira L Cohene

David C Fields

A file access request is received from an application. One or more file types for the file access request are identified, and one or more file hosts supporting files of the identified one or more file types are also identified. A user interface is displayed, the user interface including a hosted area. Within the hosted area, at least one of the one or more file hosts displays a portion of the user interface identifying one or more files of at least one file host that can be selected for retrieval, or one or more locations that can be selected to which the one or more files are saved.

File access with different file hosts

Context menus are described. In one or more implementations, an option is displayed in a user interface by a computing device, the option selectable to cause a representation of an object to be added to a context menu. In response to selection of the option, the context menu is configured by the computing device to include the representation of the object such that the representation of the object is selectable to launch the object by the computing device.

User-customizable context menus

Collection user interface techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a plurality of inputs are recognized as gestures received via interaction with a user interface to navigate through a file system of a computing device and select representations of objects managed by file system of the computing device, at least two of which are accessible via different devices. In response, copies of the representations are displayed by the computing device in a collection portion of the user interface. An option is output in conjunction with the collection portion by the computing device that is selectable to initiate a command to be performed using the objects that have corresponding representations included in the collection portion.

Collection user interface

Computer-readable media, computerized methods, and computer systems for acting on properties of multiple resources, which span disparate locations within a network, upon detecting an intuitive user-initiated operation are provided. Initially, a library is provided that includes a framework for contemporaneously accessing a collection of items within a scope thereof. Upon launching the library, representations of the scoped items are surfaced at a UI display. When the user-initiated operation is applied at one of the surfaced representations, properties of each of the scoped items are automatically manipulated. A library-configuration state, which reflects how the items are affected upon manipulating the properties thereof, may be updated upon implementing the manipulation. Accordingly, if the scope of the library is subsequently extended to encompass another item outside the original collection of items, the properties of this new item are automatically manipulated to align with the library-configuration state.

Contemporaneously sharing resources targeted by a library

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Lyon Wong