Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Prashant Singh

Bruce Alan Morgan

Aaron J Sauve

Carlos Yeung

Amar S Gandhi

Brian E Manthos

Helen Elizabeth Drislane

Louis A Martinez

Paul Cutsinger

Harel M Williams

Jan-Kristian Markiewicz

Jane T Kim

David Andrew Matthews

Mary-Lynne Williams

Warren G Stevens

John Heinrich Lueders

Jess Holbrook

Sarah J Bowers

Kuei-Chih Sun

Jennifer C Trahan

Paul L Cutsinger, Jr

Avrum S Laurie

Various embodiments enable a web site to expose various search providers that it promotes to browsers that navigate to that site. In at least some embodiments, the search providers are exposed using the HTML of a web page. When a browser navigates to that site, it processes the HTML of the associated web page and exposes the promoted search providers to the user. In at least some embodiments, the browser can permit use of one or more search providers without requiring the user to install the search provider. Alternately or additionally, in at least some other embodiments, the browser can enable the user to quickly and efficiently install the search provider so that the search provider can be available whenever the user uses their browser application.

Automatic browser search provider detection and usage

Various embodiments provide techniques for direct manipulation of content. The direct manipulation of content can provide an intuitive way for a user to access and interact with content. In at least some embodiments, content manipulation is 'direct' in that content displayed in a user interface (e.g., one or more Web pages in a Web browser interface) can be moved in and/or out of the user interface in a direction that corresponds to user-initiated physical movements, such as the user dragging or flicking the content with the user's finger or some other type of input device.

Direct manipulation of content

Various embodiments provide a target element zoom component that is configured to perform a focal point zoom operation on a target element using an appropriate zoom factor. In at least some embodiments, the target element zoom component receives a request to perform a zoom operation at a focal point of a target element in a page displayed in a display area. In at least some embodiments, the request is received via two-finger tap input on a screen of a touch enabled device. The target element zoom component then determines an appropriate zoom factor for the zoom operation. Responsive to determining the appropriate zoom factor, the target element zoom component performs the zoom operation on the page using the appropriate zoom factor so that the target element remains within the display area with the focal point retained.

Target element zoom

Various embodiments utilize certain events that occur within a Web browser to recognize an imminent intent, on the part of the user, to navigate to a website. Given such events, in combination with a user's past browsing patterns and history, an automated and personalized navigation solution can be provided to expedite navigation.

Determination and display of relevant websites

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