Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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Megan Lesley Tedesco

Yasser Baseer Asmi

Daniel John Wigdor

John Clavin

Eric Jonathan Hull

Ivan J Leichtling

Thamer A Abanami

Veronica Y Law

Jonathan David Wiswall

Marc S Doll

Sergey Chub

Kerri I H Sheldon

Timothy J Scudder

Craig Lichtenstein

Eyal Ofek

Young Soo Kim

Chaitanya Dev Sareen

Thomas Charles Oliver

Timothy G Escolin

Panos Costa Panay

Scott David Schenone

Richard Jennings Duncan

Miron Vranjes

Anshul Rawat

Christopher Doan

Doug Burger

Jaclyn Carley Knapp

Matthew Aaron Jubelirer

Jeffrey David Henshaw

Brian Eric Uphoff

Poorva Singal

Dax H Hawkins

Bruno C Silva

Henri-Charles Machalani

David Paul Platt

Michael Francis Deily

Jeremy P Robinson

Jeff G Arnold

Jeremiah T Whitaker

Mark D Zuber

Joshua Harrison

Manuel Bronstein

Matthew Neil Akers

Eli Barel

Bryan W Nealer

Matthew N Akers

The description relates to computing devices that have one or more displays. One example can manage the display as a unit and identify a change in a condition associated with the display. The example can alter at least one of a location, aspect ratio, or size of the unit based on the condition.

Computing device display management

On a display configured to provide a photorepresentative view from a user's vantage point of a physical environment in which the user is located, a method is provided comprising receiving, from the user, an input selecting a theme for use in augmenting the photorepresentative view. The method further includes obtaining, optically and in real time, environment information of the physical environment and generating a spatial model of the physical environment based on the environment information. The method further includes identifying, via analysis of the spatial model, one or more features within the spatial model that each corresponds to one or more physical features in the physical environment. The method further includes based on such analysis, displaying, on the display, an augmentation of an identified feature, the augmentation being associated with the theme.

Theme-based augmentation of photorepresentative view

An integrated media user interface is described. In an implementation, a user interface is output that includes a plurality of representations of media, each of the media rendered by the mobile device through execution of a respective one of a plurality of applications. Responsive to selection of at least one of the representations, a corresponding application is located to render the media represented by the at least one said representation. The media represented by the selected representation is rendered through execution of the located application.

Integrated media user interface

Application launcher sizing techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a likely usage context is determined, by a computing device, of a user in interacting with the computing device. An application launcher is dynamically sized within a display area of the user interface by the computing device based on the determined likely usage context of the user. The application launcher is configured for output responsive to an input received from a user and includes a plurality of representations of applications that are selectable to navigate to a user interface corresponding with a respective said application.

Application launcher sizing

A head-mounted display (HMD) provides an augmented view of advertisements to an HMD wearer. In some embodiments, when an advertisement is within an HMD wearer's field of view, the HMD may augment the HMD wearer's view of the advertisement to provide additional information and/or to personalize the advertisement to the HMD wearer. In other embodiments, when an advertisement is within an HMD wearer's field of view, the HMD may augment the HMD wearer's view of the advertisement to remove the advertisement from the HMD wearer's view or to replace the content of the advertisement with non-advertising content.

Augmented view of advertisements

Available web content is filtered based on context data available on a mobile device. Access to the filtered web content is then made available through an infotainment user interface. Context data may be based on a variety of data including, but not limited to, location information, recent communications, scheduled appointments, social network interactions, user-specified favorites, and so on.

Accessing web content based on mobile contextual data

A media player may be adapted to manage presence information distribution and access to facilitate media communication between compatible devices. Devices connecting in an ad-hoc or other network topology include a plurality of presence settings that determine how or if the device appears to be available for communication to other devices over the network. Additionally, the presence settings identify other, specific devices or groups of devices that may communicate with a device. By comparing the presence settings of a sending device with the settings of a receiving device, the receiving device may determine a presence state for all devices within communication range.

Media device presence management

A media player may stream media content, such as music, to other media players over a data network connection, for example, a WiFi/802.11 connection. An encounter object may be used to keep a record of each media object transmitted. The encounter object may include information about the transmission itself, such as a date and time when the media object was transmitted and the source and destination media players involved. The encounter object may also include metadata about the media object, such as genre, album, title, and artist, if the media object is a song. The DJ session may also support user interaction, such as sharing library listings, suggesting next plays (requests), and polls.

Disk jockey streaming sessions

A media player is adapted to organize and display nearby media device information between communicating media devices before a complete connection is established. A nearby media device receives a message that is either generally or specifically sent from another media device. The nearby device determines whether the sending media device is blocked and whether to accept the message. The nearby device accepts the message if it originates from a compatible source. If the message is accepted, the nearby device sends an acknowledgement message containing a unique device name and a device status to the sending device. The sending device then displays the unique device name and status.

Nearby media device tracking

Metadata related to a media object may be used to obtain additional information about a mark created by a user in the media object. A media object being played by a user may be marked by creating a mark object, the mark object being used to determine the metadata to be used to obtain additional information related to the mark.

Providing additional information related to earmarks

A virtual closet stores and presents virtual representations of physical items. The virtual representations may include virtual representations of items owned by a user, items the user would like to own, and memorabilia items for the user. The virtual closet may provide a number of functions. In some embodiments, the virtual closet may be used to facilitate selling items on online selling platforms by providing information (including virtual representations of the items) from the virtual closet to the online selling platforms to place the items for sale. The virtual closet may also be used in some embodiments to facilitate providing advertising targeted to the user based on information available to the virtual closet.

Virtual closet for storing and accessing virtual representations of items

A system and method for presenting content related to a radio broadcast are provided. The system may include a radio device having a receiver configured to receive a radio signal including an audio component and digitally encoded data associated with the audio component. The radio device may further include a decoder configured to decode the digitally encoded data from the radio signal. The radio device may further include a processor configured to receive the digitally encoded data from the decoder, extract a data parameter from the digitally encoded data, send a search query including the data parameter to a content service, and receive from the content service metadata associated with the data parameter. The system may further include a display configured to display the metadata received from the content service.

Obtaining and presenting metadata related to a radio broadcast

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Megan Lesley Tedesco