Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Matthew Frederick Gray

Berit Herstad

Shasha Tang

Carlos G Perez

Jokko Korhonen

Todd Smith Behrbaum

Helen Marie Anderson

Daniela Dimitrova

Olga K Dalecka

Wendy Lu

The techniques disclosed herein enable systems to centralize access to various digital items irrespective of the location of those digital items. To achieve this, items that are stored at their original location, e.g., within a cloud storage platform, can be selected by a user for storage at a centralized location such as a favorites section. These items are selected using an interface control which can be an operating system component of an item keeping system that is accessible in any context or application. The item keeping system can generate an item alias for selected items which is then stored in the centralized location. In addition, item aliases can be moved to various destinations by the user to enable customized item storage for items of varying types, origin, and location. In addition, functionality of the interface control can be modified to suite selected items.

Destination-agnostic item-keeping UI for heterogenous digital items

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

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Oslo, Norway

Matthew Frederick Gray