Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rovi Technologies Corporation

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Rovi Corporation

Michael J Kruzeniski

Paula Guntaur

Chad A Voss

Brian M Wilson

Jonathan David Friedman

Joseph McLaughlin

Michael A Smuga

Michael K Henderlight

Ryan M Haning

Darren Alexander Apfel

David Henry Wykes

Kathleen W Holmes

Ryan Thomas Murphy

Stephanie E Teng

Jason Stuart Schneekloth

Dustin Williams

Audrey C Louchart

Patrick Corrigan

Joseph P Marquardt

Albert Shen

Jinsheng Shi

Larry Russell Butcher

Sayim Kim

Catherine Sayim Kim

Rosanna H Ho

Jon Bell

Christopher Acker

Ted T Chen

Christina Ergonis

Kolby Todd Hoover

Patrick S Corrigan

Dustin Owen Williams

Sean Lazo

Theodore Aaron Haberman

William Scott Stauber

Daniel Escapa

Jannes Paul Peters

Cara Lyn Tyler

Jon Friedman

Joseph Bernard Tobens, Iii

Rohit Bhatia

Nell H Hoffman

Ram Pattabhi Papatla

Chad Aron Voss

Techniques are described to implement a user interface for a display of a mobile device. In an implementation, the user interface may include a chromeless menu configured to be displayed when menu-based user input to the mobile device is available; a system tray configured to be displayed on the display when a notice containing status information affecting operability of the mobile device is available; and a task switcher module operable to cause a chromeless overlay be displayed over an active application being executed by the mobile device to allow selection of one or more applications of the mobile device.

Chromeless user interface

In an implementation, a mobile communications device includes a display device having touchscreen functionality, a keyboard having a plurality of physical keys that include a dedicated key and letter keys arranged according to a QWERTY layout, and one or more modules. The one or more modules are configured to output a user interface on the display device responsive to selection of the dedicated key, the user interface having a plurality of portions that are selectable via the touchscreen functionality to cause input of a respective one of a plurality of emoticons.

Alternative inputs of a mobile communications device

A mobile communications device user interface is described. In an implementation, a method is implemented by a computing device that includes displaying content in conjunction with a first level of a hierarchical menu in a user interface on a display device of the computing device. Responsive to receipt of an input to navigate to a second level of the hierarchical menu that is a sublevel of the first level, the second level in displayed conjunction with the content on the display device, the content having a reduced display richness when displayed in conjunction with the second level than when displayed in conjunction with the first level.

Mobile communications device user interface

Column organization of content is described. In an implementation, a mobile communications device configures a user interface to include a plurality of representations of content arranged according to a plurality of columns that permits navigation between first and second said columns upon detection of a gesture input via a touchscreen of the mobile communications device. The user interface is displayed on a display device of the mobile communications device. The first column is configured for vertical navigation through each of the plurality of representations and the second column includes a filtered subset of the plurality of representations such that at least one of the representations is included in the first column and not the second column.

Column organization of content

Location-based display characteristics in a user interface are described. In an implementation, a determination is made by mobile communications device that icon is to be displayed at a particular location in the user interface. A display characteristic is applied by the mobile communications device that is defined for the particular location such that a display of the icon is changed. The icon is displayed having an applied display characteristic on the display device of the mobile communications device at the particular location in the user interface.

Location-based display characteristics in a user interface

User interface animation techniques are described. In an implementation, an input having a velocity is detected that is directed to one or more objects in a user interface. A visual presentation is generated that is animated so a first object in the user interface moves in parallax with respect to a second object. The presentation is displayed so the first object appears to moves at a rate that corresponds to the velocity.

User interface with parallax animation

Contextual search by a mobile communications device is described. In an implementation, a search query is a received and a context is detected of a user interface currently being displayed on a display device of a mobile communication device. One or more search results are displayed on a display device of a search performed in the detected context using the search query.

Contextual search by a mobile communications device

Display screen with icon group

A note-capture application is disclosed that allows notes to be displayed on the lock screen. In one embodiment, a note-capture application can be invoked when a mobile device is in an above-lock state. Note data can be captured using the note-capture application, and the captured data can be persistently displayed on the lock screen. A user can perform a unique gesture from the lock screen to invoke the note-capture application. In another embodiment, multiple input modes can be available for note data capture. For example, voice data, text data, camera data, etc. can all be used to capture notes for display on the lock screen.

Above-lock notes

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Michael J Kruzeniski