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Mark Yalovsky

Christopher Hugh Pratley

Owen Charles Braun

Peter P Baer

Michael J Patten

Alex Jacob Simmons

Peter Loren Engrav

Simon Clarke

Rolf Arnold Ebeling

Stuart J Stuple

Paula Julia Chuchro

Peter Seraphim Ponomarev

Christina L Rhodes

Sean O Lyndersay

Timothy D Sellers

Marty J Hall

Melissa Susan Kerr

Adam Edward Barrus

Matthew P Duignan

Ritika Kapadia

Sean Gary Nordberg

Mehmet Iyigun

Yevgeniy Bak

Alex G Snitkovskiy

Jeffrey Che Fuller

Stuart Sechrest

Thomas Scott Coon

Kelly Rose McArthur

Gabriel S DeBacker

Olga Veselova

Yau Ning Chin

Donovan P Lange

Shawn M Woods

Prashant Ratanchandani

Myungsub Kim

Ryan M Hurst

Christopher E Swan

Jason Carl Hendrickson

Steven J Sinofsky

Danielle Lauren Ellbogen

Qixing Zheng

Jeffry N Cardon

George Stefan Karalis

Swathi Ganapathi

Ishfaq Mohammad Ismail

John Corey Morgan

Jonathan M Au

Hemchand Alla

Laura J McDermott

Yevgeniya Sigal

Rose E Zeller

Julie L Zhuo

Laura J Mcdermott

Various embodiments utilize context positioning of an input mechanism to convey at least one action associated with the input mechanism. At times, the input mechanism is associated with multiple actions. Input received via at the input mechanism can be analyzed to determine which action of the multiple actions to perform. In some embodiments, the input mechanism can be physically and/or visually moved to a different location based upon the determined action.

Contextual browser frame and entry box placement

Techniques for automation of browsing mode switching are described. According to various implementations, a web browser is operable in multiple different browsing modes, including a normal browsing mode and a private browsing mode. Techniques described herein enable automatic switching between browsing modes based on different mode triggers, and enable user configuration of various mode change behaviors.

Automation of browsing mode switching

Multiple tabs are displayed in a tab row, with each tab corresponding to a respective display of content. In response to receiving a single action user input, two or more of the multiple tabs are grouped together into a tab group that is displayed in the tab row instead of the two or more tabs. These two or more tabs may be grouped together according to a wide range of options that may be designated by a user. Tab groups enable simultaneous interaction with individual tabs of the tab group, such as sharing, saving, and viewing content associated with the individual tabs. Ungrouped tabs and tab groups displayed in the tab row can further be sorted for display according to one or more user preferences to enhance the overall experience in interacting with different displays of content.

Tab sweeping and grouping

Techniques for selection of content within web documents are described herein. In implementations, a selection tool for a browser or other client application is configured to analyze web documents to recognize different regions in the arrangement of content for the document. The selection tool may parse the underlying structure of a webpage (e.g., the mark-up code and DOM structure) to identify different discrete regions in the webpage. In addition or alternatively, the selection tool may use optical recognition techniques to visually analyze the webpage as it appears when rendered and detect different discrete regions based on the visual analysis. Recognized regions are configured as portions of the content that are individually selectable. These selectable regions may be exposed and made accessible in various ways to enable users to toggle selection of the regions quickly and easily.

Content selection in web document

Aligning the contents of document objects on an electronic document page. Organizing a page of document objects so textual content is aligned to natural eye scanning patterns promotes readership and usability. When a user creates a new island of text, the new text can be snapped into alignment with an existing island of text. Invisible guidelines that emanate from textual features in a document object can page. In response to placing a content insertion point ('IP') on an electronic page with an existing document object, the IP can be automatically aligned to the content of the existing document object. A page with several arbitrarily positioned document objects can be automatically rearranged so that the contents of the document objects are each aligned to one another.

Aligning content in an electronic document

This document describes techniques for presenting a resource user interface. These techniques present, in a summary section of a user interface, multiple selectable resource tiles that each include real-time and/or static information corresponding to one of multiple resources of a computing device. Each of the multiple selectable resource tiles are presented simultaneously, which enables a user to compare live, real-time resource usage for different resources of the computing device. Further, these techniques present, in a detailed view section of the user interface, additional real-time resource information and/or a real-time resource graph corresponding to a selected one of the multiple resources.

Resource user interface

Arranging content in an electronic page

Various embodiments for process relationship management are described. In at least some embodiments, a user interface is presented that provides an integrated view of processes that are running on a computing device and relationships between the processes. For example, the user interface can display a visual indication that a first process is related to a second process and that if a user closes the first process, the second process will also close as a result. Further to one or more embodiments, the user interface can display status messages regarding processes, such as that a process is not responding to a request to close or that a process is waiting on user input.

User interface for process relationship management

Determining and applying format attributes associated with content in an electronic document that is cut or copied from an electronic document and pasted into the same or different electronic document. The determination may be based on the format attributes of the content within a region of an electronic document containing the cut or copied content and the format attributes of a region of content that includes the location where the cut or copied text may be pasted. Local formatting may be associated with the source region of content and the destination region of content. Direct, or emphasis formatting, may be associated with content that has been cut or copied.

Method and system for deriving and matching local formatting in an electronic document

A display environment for a plurality of display devices is described. In one or more implementations, a display environment of an operating system of a computing device is configured to display a plurality of shells that support user interaction with the operating system by launching a first shell for display on a first display device of the computing device and launching a second shell for display on a second display device of the computing device such that the first and second shells are displayable simultaneously by the computing device.

Display environment for a plurality of display devices

The present invention relates to new and improved embodiments of systems and methods for using a 'pen' input as a temporary pointer to highlight a portion of a document and having the 'ink' disappear. In embodiments, a method and system for temporarily marking a portion of a document comprises sending a marking directive that produces a visual indicia on a document being viewed on two or more display devices connected over a network, waiting a period of time, and automatically erasing the visual indicia on the document being viewed on the two or more display devices.

Method and system for creating temporary visual indicia

Two different process management views can be displayed, and a user can request to switch between the two views. The user can select a process in either view and have the selected process terminated. One view is a simplified view that identifies processes and whether they are non-responsive. The other view is an expanded view that identifies processes and the amount of various system resources used by each of those processes. Various additional information can be displayed in the expanded view, such as identifiers of various windows, tabs, and/or services associated with each of the processes.

Process management views

A personal media player is arranged to capture information, such as wireless network information (including network ID and key) and other kinds of information such as credentials (e.g., user name and password), and then share the information with a wireless networkable device when the player is physically coupled to the device in a docking process. When the personal media player is docked, the information is automatically transferred from the player to the device to enable the device to perform some action without any additional effort by the user. This could include, for example, discovering and be securely admitted to the wireless network, or accessing a remote service using the transferred credentials.

Automatic transfer of information through physical docking of devices

Aligning the contents of document objects on an electronic document page. Organizing a page of document objects so textual content is aligned to natural eye scanning patterns promotes readership and usability. When a user creates a new island of text, the new text can be snapped into alignment with an existing island of text. Invisible guidelines that emanate from textual features in a document object can provide a relative alignment reference that floats with the position of the object on the page. In response to placing a content insertion point ('IP') on an electronic page with an existing document object, the IP can be automatically aligned to the content of the existing document object. A page with several arbitrarily positioned document objects can be automatically rearranged so that the contents of the document objects are each aligned to one another.

Aligning content in an electric document

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