Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Nazia Zaman

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Chantal M Leonard

Ethan Nelson Ray

Adrian James Garside

Lindsey R Barcheck

Christopher T Bush

Maverick J Velasco

Denise Michele Trabona

Jonathan Eric Gleasman

Alan Andrew Urdan

Rebecca J Deutsch

Poorva Singal

Hui-Chun Ku

Tyler Joseph Donahue

Sean L Flynn

David A Machaj

Jason Beaumont

James Lee

Samuel J Moreau

Harold S Gomez

Michael Jay Gilmore

Anshul Rawat

Daryl Tanghe

Relja Ivanovic

Lauren Michelle Beckwith

Paul James Reid

Priya Vaidyanathan

Brian Eric Uphoff

Allison Gallant

Katherine Winant Osborne

Victor Vuong

Sarthak Datt

Maria Isabel Ancona

Tyler J Donahue

Brian K Mcneil

Kiernon S Reiniger

This document describes techniques for application reporting in an application-selectable user interface. These techniques permit a user to view reports for applications in a user interface through which these applications may be selected. By so doing, a user may quickly and easily determine which applications to select based on their respective reports and then select them or their content through the user interface.

Application reporting in an application-selectable user interface

This document describes techniques for progressively indicating new content in an application-selectable user interface. These techniques permit a user to view indications of new content for applications progressively, rather than all at one time. By so doing, the techniques may avoid mentally or visually overloading or over-stimulating a user viewing the indications.

Progressively indicating new content in an application-selectable user interface

A sleep application running on a computing platform such as a server utilizes sleep data from a remote system that monitors a user's sleep behaviors and transforms the data to populate graphs of sleep sessions over various calendar periods (e.g., by week, by month) and render them on a user interface (UI) that is exposed to remote devices such as personal computers (PCs), tablets, multimedia consoles, and smartphones over a network. The sleep sessions are optimized for visibility on the remote devices by dynamically adjusting the range of the time axis of a graph so that a maximum number of sleep sessions over a calendar period may be graphed continuously over the range without breaks (which can impair visibility and reduce comprehension).

Optimized visibility for sleep sessions over time

A magnifier movement system is described herein that provides a more user-friendly experience for users of natural input devices when moving the magnifier and interacting with magnified user interface elements. The system receives an indication that a user has touched the screen with a natural input device at a particular location. The system displays a drag control for moving the magnifier, but does not move the magnifier unless the user selects the drag control and moves the natural input device. If the drag control is unselected and the system receives additional natural input, then the system passes the input on to the magnified application. Thus, the magnifier movement system provides a more satisfying user experience for users of natural input-based computer systems and screen magnifiers.

Magnifier panning interface for natural input devices

Display screen with graphical user interface

This document describes techniques and apparatuses for presenting an application change through a tile. These techniques enable a user to see content associated with content changes to an application or other information about the application, such as a new article, new email, or a software update having become available since a user last visited the application. By so doing, the techniques enable a user to forgo visiting the application or permit the user to quickly and easily decide whether or not to visit the application.

Presenting an application change through a tile

Described herein are techniques to facilitate efficient application navigation by a user. In one embodiment, two or more scrollable surfaces contain application icons. One surface may have a first type of application icon and may be a user-customized surface akin to a desktop. Usually, only one of the surfaces is active and displayed at a given time. The user can swap one surface into view and the other surface out of view. The active surface is independently scrollable; when a given surface is swapped out and then swapped back in, despite any scrolling of the intervening surface, when the given surface is swapped back into view it returns at the same position it had before being swapped out. Another embodiment may provide optimizations to enhance performance and responsiveness by pre-rendering imagery of an off-screen surface. Caching logic may be used to assure that the imagery is correct.

Start and application navigation

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