Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Manoj Kumar Biswas

Rudolph Balaz

Steve Dodge

Brigette Krantz

Arin J Goldberg

Alexander J Kolmykov-Zotov

Kyril Feldman

Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah

Sashi Raghupathy

Bodin Dresevic

Todd A Torset

Shiraz M Somji

Timothy H Kannapel

Stephen Alan Fisher

Alexander G Gounares

Robert L Chambers

Subha Bhattacharyay

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Feng Zhao

Jensen Michael Harris

Steven P Dodge

Xiao Tu

Gregory Nicholas Hullender

Andrew L Silverman

Max Glenn Morris

Christopher T Clark

Daniel Oliver

Sandy Wong

Ahsan Syed Kabir

Jerome J Turner

Ginger J Gloystein

Robert Emmett Kolba, Jr

Katie Messerly

Amy Harilal Rambhia

Billie Sue Chafins

Olivier Tritschler

Patrik Lundberg

Devang Thakker

Christopher Scott Dickens

Sarjana Sheth

Olumuyiwa M Durojaiye

Ranjib Singh Badh

Sermet Iskin

Harris Syed

Jayaraman Kalyana Sundaram

Sumit Mehrotra

Jacob Andrew Sabulsky

Zainab Hakim

Axel Andrejs

John Saxon Morrow

Xin Wang

Sam J George

Michael Kallay

Tobiasz Alexander Zielinski

Brian Ewanchuk

Todd M Landstad

Koji Kato

Ming Ye

Shawn A Van Ness

Stefan Wick

Vladimir V Smirnov

Eugene A Tsimberg

Wayne Zeng

Kevin Welton

Richmond Lough

Chandramouli Kompella

Hongan Wang

Michael Russell

Ahsan Kabir

An action framework system provides context-based actions in association with a source application. The source application detects selection of a content element presented by the source application. The content element is associated with an application identifier identifying a target application and an action identifier identifying an operation to be executed by the target application on the content element. The target application identified by the application identifier is executed to perform the operation identified by the action identifier on the content element, responsive to detection of the selection of the content element. In one implementation, the source application is a search feature providing different contexts of search results (e.g., from a local file system search, a local application content search, a Web search, a remote application content search).

Context-based actions from a source application

An operating system provides an extensible share action to broker content sharing between applications executing on a computing platform such as a personal computer, tablet computer, or smartphone. The share action enables a consistent user experience for content sharing to be implemented across all applications and eliminates users having to switch from the current application they are using to some other functionality in order to share content. Applications can participate with the operating system share action as source applications and/or target applications. Source applications may describe what content is shareable given the current state of their application when the user chooses to invoke the share action. Target applications can be configured to receive the shared content from the source application according to content type, and will expose a companion view of their application to the user that is specifically tailored to facilitate sharing.

Extensible system action for sharing while remaining in context

In one or more embodiments, a bus driver, included on a local computing system, enables detection of hardware available on a host computing system for a remote access session. Upon detecting a hardware device on the host computing system, an operating system included in the local computing system may obtain a device driver for controlling data captured from the hardware device. The device driver may be used to inject data captured from the hardware device into the local operating system's input stack. In some examples, the data is injected into the local operating system's input stack at a layer that corresponds to a layer at which the data was captured on the host computing system.

Remote inking

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for dynamically maintaining user centric data. For example, a data provider app may have knowledge about user centric data associated with a user (e.g., a social network app may have contact information for a social network friend of the user). A user centric profile may be defined for the user centric data based upon information provided by the data provider app (e.g., a contact card may be generated for the social network friend). Responsive to receiving a request for the user centric profile from a requestor app (e.g., an event planning app), the user centric profile may be exposed to the user but not to the requestor app for security and/or privacy purposes. For example, an operating system may present at least some of the user centric profile within an operating system user interface.

User centric data maintenance

A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Ink-stroke information associated with one or more data packets is received, and it is determined that the ink-stroke information comprises a gesture indication. The gesture indication is communicated to an ink collection object which causes the ink collection object to delete the ink stroke information.

Generic interface

A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is given priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.

A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.

Synchronization of plugins

Overlaying electronic ink over a document. A typical scenario may be where one it would be useful to mark up a document with electronic ink, such as by making handwritten comments, drawings, and the like over the underlying document. In some embodiments, a developer may easily define an inking surface, such as a transparent or opaque window, over a document. The inking surface may act as an input interface such that a user may write onto the inking surface such that is appears that the document itself is being marked up.

Overlaying electronic ink

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