Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mohamed Mansour

Joseph Jiwoong Oak

Avi Ashish Vaid

Felix Gti Andrew

Mathew Paul Siembor

Federico Paredes Garza

Aspects of the technology described herein provide a collaborative browsing experience in which real-time browsing activity and saved browsing activity of session collaborators in a collaborative browsing session are shared with the collaborators. A collaborative session may be initiated, which may create a tab group associated with the session and linked to a collaborator. Other collaborators may be invited to join the session, and additional tab groups for each collaborator may be created. The tab groups of the collaborators may be included in a collective tab group, which may be updated in real-time with changes made by any of the collaborators. For example, client changes may be handled locally and communicated to a service to which each client is connected. The service may sequence and broadcast the ordered changes to the clients, which may each implement the changes according to the sequence to synchronize a shared state amongst clients.

Collaborative browsing

A network service maintains a recently used resource list for a user that includes a list of references (e.g., hyperlinks) to resources (e.g., files) recently accessed by the user. An application, such as a web browser application or a web browser extension, periodically retrieves the recently used resource list for the user from the network service. When the application is utilized to display a text entry field, a user interface ('UI') can be provided for inserting references to recently used resources identified in the recently used resource list into the text entry field. Through the UI, the user can select a resource identified in the recently used resource list using appropriate user input (e.g., selection of a resource using a mouse cursor, touch, or keyboard input). In response thereto, a reference (e.g., a hyperlink) to a selected resource can be inserted into the text entry field.

Efficiently accessing references to recently used resources

A device is disclosed, which includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The memory includes executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the device to perform functions of providing a graphical user interface for a user on a display; displaying a user interface component on the graphical user interface; providing a pointer on the graphical user interface controlled by the user to interact with the user interface component on the graphical user interface; in response to the pointer being positioned over the displayed user interface component, and displaying after a dynamic hover trigger delay a hover graphic proximate to the component wherein the dynamic hover trigger delay dynamically changes depending on movement of the pointer by the user.

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Mohamed Mansour