Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Naji Shaheimi Shafi

Jesse G Tobiason

Joseph J Brychell

Jeffery S Welden

Patrick Allan Gianelli

Yi He

Alain L Michaud

Heng Huang

Alejandro Steckler

Joan Ouyang

Saad B Sami

Ashwin Raju Jeyakumar

Alain Michaud

Techniques involving gestures and other functionality are described. In one or more implementations, an input is recognized by a computing device as corresponding to a gesture, the gesture defined using a plurality of parameters, at least one of which having a threshold that varies with respect to another one of the parameters. An operation is caused to be performed by the computing device that corresponds to the gesture.

Dynamic gesture parameters

The description relates to enhancing user experience with devices, such as host and peripheral devices. One example relates to devices that can automatically power down when packaged for shipping and power up when opened by the user. Another example allows automatic, secure pairing between sets of host and peripheral devices without any affirmative user actions.

Enhancing user experience relative to peripheral devices

Coupons and other promotions can be enabled using mobile computing devices with Near Field Communication (NFC) or other wireless communication capabilities. For example, a mobile device user can collect a coupon displayed during a cable TV show by tapping his NFC mobile device to a peripheral device in wireless communication with a cable TV receiver. Collected coupons can be stored in a coupon database at the mobile device. Coupons can be redeemed by tapping an NFC mobile device to an NFC point of sale terminal. Coupons can also be collected from advertisements in audio media and web pages, and can be collected at a mobile device from media displayed at the mobile device. Coupons can have time-based, location-based or other usage restrictions. Collecting information stored in NFC tags affixed to items in a scavenger hunt list can unlock downloadable content.

Wireless communication-enabled promotions and commercial transactions

Network feed content is described. In implementations, a network feed is parsed to locate one or more keywords. Additional content that corresponds to the one or more keywords is added to the network feed. The network feed having the additional content is communicated for receipt via a network by one or more users.

Network feed content

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