Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Mirko Mandic

Zachary J Shallcross

Keri D Vandeberghe

Lindsey R Barcheck

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Brett Richard Taylor

Jensen Michael Harris

Waqas Syed Ahmed

Danny Guan

Marina Dukhon

David Echevarria Ignacio

Prathiban Mohanasundaram

Helene Causse

Ian Hyun Sun Kim

Shannon Thomas

Jane T Kim

Mary-Lynne Williams

Mark E Pearson

Michael J Patten

Paula Guntaur

Marty J Hall

Rodger William Benson

Elaine Y Law

Andrew V Fomichev

Timothy A Weber

Clay Satterfield

Chaitanya Dev Sareen

James Lee

Maverick J Velasco

Justin Rogers

Karen Mui Scott

Warren G Stevens

Michael J Ens

Brian Eric Uphoff

Jacob Rossi

Matthew Allen Rakow

Jonathan Ian Gordner

Valerie Rosen

Sarah J Bowers

Sandra G Roberts

Richie Fang

Jennifer C Trahan

Siddhartha Prakash

Lindsay Renee Barcheck

Rahul Lalmalani

Rahul Jaikrishin Lalmalani

Marcus A Lewis

Techniques for employing user interfaces to output information indicative of events occurring in an inventory facility, and receive feedback from a human regarding the events are described herein. In one implementation, an event may take place in an inventory facility, such as a customer taking an item from an inventory location, returning an item to an inventory location, and so forth. An automated system of an inventory management system may process sensor data collected by sensors in the inventory facility to determine details of the event. In some examples, the inventory management system is unable to determine with a high level of confidence what occurred during the event. The inventory management system may provide the sensor data to a human associate through an associate interface, and receive input regarding details of the event from the human associate through the associate interface.

Identifying user-item interactions in an automated facility

A segment ring menu is provided that is used to easily access menu items. The segment ring menu includes a number of menus that are located equidistant from an initial mouse position from where the segment ring menu is evoked. Hovering over any of the sections of the segment ring menu displays the menu items hosted in that section. The segment ring menu layout is directed at making it easy for the user to reach any of the menu items with a small amount of mouse movement.

Segment ring menu

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for implementing a reverse protocol launch. For example, the reverse protocol launch may be implemented between apps (e.g., as an app-to-app protocol) such that a user may navigate between apps in a contextually relevant manner using the reverse protocol launch. In an example, a search app may display vacation search results based upon a search query. Responsive to a selection of a vacation movie search result, a transition to a movie app may occur. A context, specifying a contextual state of the search app (e.g., information regarding the vacation search results, the search query, etc.), may be sent to the movie app. The movie app may implement a reverse protocol launch using the context to transition from the movie app back to the search app in the contextual state (e.g., the search app may be repopulated with the vacation search results, etc.).

Reverse launch protocol

A region menu is used to easily access menu items. Generally, the region menu includes a number of regions with associated menus that are located close to an initial mouse position from where the region menu is evoked. Hovering over any of the regions of the region menu displays the menu item that is associated with the region. Additionally, hovering over a menu item within one of the regions of the displayed region menu may activate a live preview showing a projected result of what would occur should that menu item be selected. During a live preview, a portion of the region menu becomes translucent such that content beneath the menu becomes visible.

Menus with translucency and live preview

Various embodiments provide a Web browser that includes an address bar and functionality that distributes one or more tabs along a line that is common to both the tabs and address bar. In at least some embodiments, one or more of the address bar or the tabs are dynamically resized based on a task context associated with a user's interaction with the Web browser. For example, when the task context is associated with a tab interaction, the address bar and/or tabs can be dynamically resized to enhance the user's tab experience. Likewise, when the task context is associated with an address bar interaction, the address bar and/or tabs can be dynamically resized to enhance a user's address bar experience.

Task-based address bar and tabs scaling

Various embodiments enable a web browser to promote the availability of an installable application that is associated with a website to which the web browser has been navigated. The web browser is configured to discover the availability of these applications and, responsively, provide a user experience through which the user can acquire and install such applications, as well as switch to applications that have previously been installed. Thus, through the various embodiments, a user is relieved of the burden of having to navigate to a particular application store and periodically search for applications associated with sites to which they browse.

Browser-based discovery and application switching

An out-space actuator is selected to access an out-space user interface for a document editor program. An out-space actuator is associated with an in-space user interface having a displayed document. When the out-space actuator is selected, an out-space user interface is displayed that includes an expanded feature selection surface.

Accessing an out-space user interface for a document editor program

Various embodiments enable repetitive gestures, such as multiple serial gestures, to be implemented efficiently so as to enhance the user experience. Other embodiments provide various approaches to zoom operations that consider a particular element's contextual surroundings in making a zoom decision that is designed to enhance the user experience and provide efficiently-zoomed content given a device's or rendering container's form factor.

Input pointer delay and zoom logic

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with user interface

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