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Muhammad Atif

Jiwon Choi

Kenneth Martin Tubbs

Brian Eric Uphoff

Thomas Henry Alphin, Iii

Arya Dustin Afrashteh

Jianchun Chen

Thomas Henry Iii Alphin

Technologies are described for suppressing the collection of activity data by an operating system. An operating system provides an application programming interface ('API') through which applications can submit activity data. The activity data can be exposed to users through a UI that includes UI controls that can be selected to resume previously performed activities. The operating system also provides another UI that includes UI controls for specifying that collection of activity data by the operating system is to be suppressed. When the UI control is selected, the API will discard activity data received from applications. Another selection of the UI control will instruct the API to resume collection and storage of activity data provided by the applications. The UI for suppressing the collection of activity data can also include another UI control which, when selected, will cause activity data previously obtained by the API and stored to be discarded.

Suppressing the collection of activity data by an operating system

Technologies are described for resuming activities using activity data collected by an operating system. An operating system provides an application programming interface ('API') through which applications can submit activity data. The activity data identifies an application and an activity previously performed using the application. The activity data can be presented to users in a UI that includes UI controls corresponding to the reported activities. The UI controls can identify the activity and the application used to perform the activity. The UI controls can be presented in an order determined based upon the time at which the corresponding activity was performed. The UI controls can be selected to resume the corresponding activity. Functionality can also be provided for scrolling through the UI controls, searching the activity data, filtering the represented activities, deleting the activity data corresponding to an activity, and performing other functions.

Resumption of activities using activity data collected by an operating system

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