Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Matthew Hidinger

Nora Micheva

Akhilesh Kaza

Andrew Clinick

Ashwini Kumar Varma

Lei Xu

Theron Thomas Fennel

Ali Rafiee

Andrew Tyler Bares

A facility for providing enhanced time-sensitive notifications on an electronic device is described. In some such notifications, the facility replaces an icon or name of an application presenting the notification with another image or other text, respectively. In some such notifications, the facility renders certain aspects of the notification on an optional basis, such as based on the capabilities of the electronic device.

Enhanced notifications

Providing context from a dynamic icon to an underlying application. A method includes displaying dynamically, at a dynamic icon, a plurality of context elements. Each of the context elements corresponds to an item available in an application underlying the dynamic icon. The method further includes receiving user input at the dynamic icon indicating a desire to open an application underlying the dynamic icon. The method further includes, providing to the application underlying the dynamic icon an indication of a context element that was being displayed at the dynamic icon when the user input was received.

Content chase-ability for apps

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Matthew Hidinger