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Patrice Lynn Miner

David George De Vorchik

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Jennifer Nan

Chaitanya Dev Sareen

Bret P Anderson

Jason Fergus Moore

Robert J Jarrett

Tsz Yan Wong

Paul Alexander Gusmorino, Iii

David Andrew Matthews

Nils Anders Sundelin

Kenneth Martin Tubbs

Richard Malcolm Banks

Relja Ivanovic

Marieke Iwema Watson

Shaun A Kaasten

Mark R Ligameri

Matthew Isaac Worley

Aaron Wesley Cunningham

Richard M Banks

Zeke Book Odins-Lucas

Cornelis K Van Dok

Rebecca J Deutsch

Chris J Guzak

Lyon K F Wong

Benjamin Betz

Shaun Kaasten

Stephan Hoefnagels

Jensen Michael Harris

Matthew Bret MacLaurin

J Craig Hally

Michael G Sheldon

David Joel Sheldon

Nathaniel Harper Ballou

Brian S LeVee

Sasanka Chalivendra

Kenneth A Koch

Greg S Melander

Lili Cheng

Charles Cummins

Jenny T Lam

Michael A LaJoie

Adrienne E O'Donnell

Robert Kenneth Stein, Iii

Michael Jay Gilmore

Robert Ward Massa

Benjamin N Truelove

Colin Ray Anthony

Bryan Pieratt

Martijn Eldert Van Tilburg

Tjeerd Hoek

Andrzej Turski

Tyler Kien Beam

Daryl Tanghe

Alice Pritikin Steinglass

Luciana Bordallo Misura

Michael Curato

Shawna Swanson

Raymond J Chen

Theresa B Pittappilly

Talos Shu-Ming Tsui

Christina Szi-Gia Chen

Michael Anthony Martinez

Zach Robinson

Timothy P McKee

David T Jones

Alexandru Gavrilescu

Song Zou

Jason Glenn Silvis

Marina Dukhon

Chantal M Leonard

Holger Kuehnle

John C Whytock

Haiyong Wang

Dennis A Morgan

Bill Begorre

David G DeVorchik

Varun Bahl

Jeffrey S Miller

Pai-Hung Chen

Jared C Simpson

Judson Craig Hally

David G Thaler

Gursharan Singh Sidhu

Giampiero M Sierra

Walter R Smith

Ahsan Syed Kabir

Paul Cutsinger

Ivan Brugiolo

Marcus Harvey

Jeffrey C Belt

James Brian Kurtz

Philip P Fortier

Heiwad Hamidy Osman

Lyon King-Fook Wong

Mohamed A M Sadek

Alok Sinha

Donna B Andrews

Aidan N Low

This document describes techniques and apparatuses for managing an immersive interface in a multi-application immersive environment. In some embodiments, these techniques and apparatuses enable a user to alter sizes and/or a layout of multiple immersive interfaces with as little as one selection.

Managing an immersive interface in a multi-application immersive environment

A computer application launcher can be displayed. In response to receiving a first user input associated with the launcher while a computer application indicated by the launcher is not running, a destination list can be displayed. The destination list can include one or more destinations indicating one or more items that can be performed by a computer application. In response to a second user input associated with the destination list and indicating selection of a destination on the destination list, the application can be launched and instructed to perform an item indicated by the selected destination.

Destination list associated with an application launcher

This document describes techniques and apparatuses for arranging tiles. These techniques and apparatuses enable users to quickly and easily arrange tiles within an interface, such as an application-launching interface. In some cases, users may arrange tiles in an interface with as little as one continuous gesture.

Arranging tiles

Presented herein are techniques for invoking user interfaces in graphical computing environments involving 'hooking' gestures applicable to an edge of a display. These gestures involve positioning a pointer near an edge of the display depicting the environment, and then moving the cursor to a second location that is distanced from but near the first location (e.g., moving the pointer into a corner of the display, and then toward the center of the display, or to a midpoint of an adjacent edge of the display), resulting in the presentation of the user interface under the pointer at the second location. Variations include presenting a preview of the user interface (e.g., a subset of a user interface menu) at the second location while the pointer is in the first location, and refraining from presenting the user interface upon failing to complete the gesture or receiving extraneous input before completing the gesture.

Edge-based hooking gestures for invoking user interfaces

Desktop as an immersive application techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an immersive environment module is configured to provide an immersive shell through which a user may interact with applications of a computing device. The immersive environment module is further configured to provide a desktop shell within the immersive shell to support additional techniques for interaction with the application of the computing device. The desktop shell, for instance, may be configured for accessibility similar to that provided to applications in the immersive shell.

Navigation of immersive and desktop shells

This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling a multi-application environment. In some embodiments, these techniques and apparatuses enable multi-application environments having combinations of immersive interfaces, windows-based interfaces, and a desktop treated as an immersive interface.

Multi-application environment

An address bar user interface control includes one or more interactive segments. A segment may include one or more filters or selection criteria for selecting content from physical and/or virtual locations. In some instances, a segment may include two or more filters or selection criteria which are logically combined for selecting content.

Address bar user interface control

Display of immersive and desktop shells

This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling an application-launching interface for multiple modes. This interface enables a user to quickly and easily select to launch applications associated with different modes. A user may avoid wading through multiple interfaces, making multiple selections, and/or a cognitive load associated with deciding on a mode with which to interact.

Application-launching interface for multiple modes

Computer-readable media, computerized methods, and computer systems for intuitively invoking a presentation action (e.g., rendering a menu) by applying a drag-operation at a top-level control button rendered at a touchscreen display are provided. Initially, aspects of a user-initiated input applied at the top-level control button are detected. These aspects may include an actuation location and a distance of a drag-movement therefrom. If a distance of the drag-movement at the touchscreen display is greater than a threshold distance in a particular radial direction from the actuation location, the user-initiated input is considered a drag-operation. Typically, a set of trigger boundaries are constructed based on system metrics to assist in disambiguating the drag-operation from a tap-type operation. If a drag-operation is identified, the presentation action is invoked; otherwise, a principle action associated with the top-level control button (e.g., manipulating content of an application) may be invoked.

Accessing a menu utilizing a drag-operation

A system and method for filtering and organizing items from computer memories based on common elements is provided. Filters can be provided for manipulating the items, which serve as tools for narrowing down a set of items. The filters can be dynamically generated based on the properties of the separate items. The system can utilize virtual folders. The virtual folders can expose regular files and folders to users in different views based on their metadata instead of the actual physical underlying file system structure on the disk. Quick links can be provided, which serve as a set of predefined links (e.g., located on the left side of the display) that can be clicked on to generate useful views of the sets of items. Libraries, which can provide large groups of usable types of items that can be associated together, may also be used.

System and method for filtering and organizing items based on common elements

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