Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Niantic, Inc.

Matthew Kiichi Slemon

Paul M Franceus

Nidhi Sanghai

Laura Mae Warner

James William Otermat

Rowan Rebholz Meara

Yuegang Mao

Sang-Min Park

Joshua Y Tang

Ethan Jacob Chan

Daphne Alesia Larose

David Abzarian

Matthew Isaac Worley

Miron Vranjes

Christopher Doan

Tyler Joseph Donahue

Jennifer A Teed

Eric Christian Brown

Emily Grace Sappington

Andrew Pyon Mittereder

Sohit Karol

Nidhi S Sanghai

Tyler J Donahue

Events in an interactive application (e.g., a location-based parallel reality game) are triggered by a user's real-world activity meeting one or more criteria. A background process executing on the user's client device periodically extracts activity data from an activity monitoring application (e.g., a fitness application) and provides it to a server hosting the interactive application. The server determines whether received activity data triggers an event and, if so, sends a notification of the event to the client device.

Background process for importing real-world activity data into a location-based game

The techniques described herein are directed to a computing device that receives data from an indirect input device. The data received may indicate or signal that one or more objects are on or within a detection area of the indirect input device. For example, the data may indicate that one or more objects are in contact with a surface of an indirect touch device. The techniques include determining parameters for the one or more objects and analyzing the parameters to determine whether the data is directed to a touch operation or to a mouse operation. To perform the touch operation or the mouse operation, the techniques further describe converting the data received from a first coordinate space of the indirect input device to a second coordinate space of a display screen.

Disambiguation of indirect input

A multi-finger touchpad gesture refers to a movement of multiple fingers in a particular pattern across a touchpad. The touchpad senses the multiple fingers, and based on the sensed finger locations and finger movements, one of multiple multi-finger touchpad gestures is detected. A user interface being presented on a display is altered as appropriate in response to the detected multi-finger touchpad gesture. Various different multi-finger touchpad gestures can be detected. The multi-finger touchpad gestures can include a gesture that traverses different hierarchical views of the operating system user interface, a gesture that switches between two recent windows, a gesture that traverses a back stack of windows, a gesture that displays a window selection view and selects a particular window, and a gesture that moves a window to a different location (including snapping a window to an edge or corner of the display).

Multi-finger touchpad gestures

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