Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Nabil Fates

Samuel David Adams

Peter Gregory Davis

John Carroll Gordon

Raju Jain

Benjamin Scott McGregor

Niket Ashok Sanghvi

Corey Joseph Loman

Steven Mathew Ilami

Steven M Ilami

A communal computing device, like an interactive digital whiteboard, can detect the start and end of user sessions with the device. When a communal computing device detects the end of a user session, the it can determine if a personal device that was connected at the start of the user session or during the user session was also connected at the end of the user session. If so, the device can initiate actions based on the session start or end signals such as, but not limited to, transmitting a message to an organizer of a meeting scheduled during the time of the user session, transmitting a message to a participant of a meeting scheduled during the time of the user session, transmitting a message to an administrator, or generating a notification, such as a user interface reminding a user to take their personal device.

Scoping the lifetime of personal devices connected to communal computing devices

Examples described herein provide advanced pairing between an application and a selected device within an application-driven user experience. An application is enabled to pair devices within the application context and customize the user experience without relying on an experience or user interface provided by an operating system. This application-driven pairing is abstracted from protocols, allowing the application to provide custom pairing user experiences for any protocol.

Brokered advanced pairing

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