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Richard Jennings Duncan

Zoltan C Szilagyi

Timothy H Kannapel

Jamie N Wakeam

Sashi Raghupathy

Herry Sutanto

Robert J Jarrett

Jerome J Turner

Emily K Rimas-Ribikauskas

Alexander J Zotov

Benjamin Salim Srour

David B Perry

Latika Kirtane

Leroy B Keely

Bodin Dresevic

Todd M Landstad

Thomas Henry Alphin, Iii

John Michael Calandrino

Steven P Dodge

David Andrew Matthews

Gavin M Gear

Subha Bhattacharyay

Shawna Julie Davis

Ross Nathaniel Luengen

Michael Shilman

Haiyong Wang

Ernest L Pennington, Ii

Henri-Charles Machalani

Roman Snytsar

Thomas H Alphin

Chris Devaraj

Emily K Ribas-Ribikauskas

Jeff Miller

Chaitanya Dev Sareen

Alex Jacob Simmons

Peter Loren Engrav

Eric B Fox

Steve Dodge

Miron Vranjes

David Bargeron

Christopher Doan

Anshul Rawat

Jaclyn Carley Knapp

Kevin Phillip Paulson

Constance Missimer

Megan Lesley Tedesco

Weerapan Wilairat

Brian Eric Uphoff

Samer Fouad Sawaya

Poorva Singal

Sriram Viji

Thomas R Wick

Thomas Russo

Sebastian Poulose

Kentaro Urata

Richard L Spencer, Ii

Jeff G Arnold

Clement Basile Fauchere

Benoit Jules Jurion

Sarah W McDevitt

Bahram Bahram Pour

Matthew Neil Akers

Sally Liu

David S Amenta

Terri L Chudzik

Robert Macklin

Marina Dukhon Taylor

Chris McGuire

Thomas Alphin

Neils Van Dongen

Khalil Jabrane

Lidia Schwarz

Amber P Race

Matthew N Akers

Brian E Uphoff

Thomas H Iii Alphin

David A Perry

Jaclyn C Knapp

Megan L Tedesco

Systems and methods are provided for controlling the appearance of application windows on a computer display screen. A user identifies either an application window currently running on the computer or a new application to be started. The user also identifies a size, shape, and screen location by inputting a geometric shape, such as by drawing a rectangle with a pen or stylus input device, on the display screen. The appearance of the application window is set based on the geometric shape. The application window is resized and moved, for a currently running application, or created, for a new application, on the display screen.

Controlling application windows in an operating system

Embodiments described herein are directed to managing elements within a notification area of a graphical operating system. The elements may include any graphic, logo, or image associated with running software. A user indicates which elements can be displayed in the notification area, consequently creating a list of potentially displayable elements. For each listed element, an order of display, file location, and display status is designated. The user may freely change the order in which elements are displayed in the notification area by repositioning the displayed elements. Elements may be permanently removed from the notification area, resulting in their deletion from the list. Only elements entered into the order list, at the discretion of the user, are displayable within the notification area.

Notification area that persistently rearranges elements

Techniques enabling live tiles without application-code execution permit live content to be presented in tiles without executing code of applications associated with those tiles. By so doing, live tiles may be presented more safely, faster, or using fewer resources.

Live tiles without application-code execution

Application launcher sizing techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a likely usage context is determined, by a computing device, of a user in interacting with the computing device. An application launcher is dynamically sized within a display area of the user interface by the computing device based on the determined likely usage context of the user. The application launcher is configured for output responsive to an input received from a user and includes a plurality of representations of applications that are selectable to navigate to a user interface corresponding with a respective said application.

Application launcher sizing

Techniques enabling live tiles without application-code execution are described. These techniques permit live content to be presented in tiles without executing code of applications associated with those tiles. By so doing, live tiles may be presented more safely, faster, or using fewer resources.

Embodiments described herein relate to synchronizing configuration information between devices associated with a user. The synchronized configuration information can relate to application installations and uninstallations as well as to user modifications to user interfaces for managing and invoking the applications. For example, layouts of application representations provided by respective application launchers on a user's respective devices are kept automatically synchronized when the user modifies any of the layouts. Installations and uninstallations are similarly synchronized between the user's devices. Installations and uninstallations that might stem from synchronization may be circumscribed in various ways, such as by allowing the user to specify whether specific applications are to be installed/uninstalled only on specific devices or globally, by filtering propagation of synchronization updates according to hardware or software features and incompatibilities, or others.

Application install and layout syncing

Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media are provided for enabling a reliable indication of the amount of time a battery will provide sufficient charge to power a computing device. One or more profiles of user activity on a computing device are created. A drain rate for each profile of user activity is determined and stored. An analysis of the user activities being engaged in on the computing device is conducted, and a profile of user activity is determined to describe the user activities. An amount of remaining charge stored in the battery is determined, and the period of time that the battery will provide sufficient charge to the computing device is determined based on the amount of remaining charge and on the drain rate at which charge is drained from the battery for the determined profile of user activity.

Battery detection and user experience

A method and medium are provided for enabling reliable indication of the amount of time a battery will provide sufficient charge to power a computing device. In one embodiment, the time interval that lapses from the charge draining from the battery between two thresholds is determined, and the thresholds are adjusted based on the time interval. Other embodiments provide for classifying a battery as no longer capable of maintaining sufficient charge by comparing the maximum amount of charge the battery could store to the current maximum amount of charge the battery can currently store. Another embodiment determines how long a battery will provide sufficient charge to power a computing device based on profiles of user activity and associated battery drain rates. The current amount of charge stored in the battery is divided by the profile drain rate to determine how long the battery will provide sufficient charge to power the computing device.

Methods are provided for interpreting a touch in relation to touch targets displayed on a touch-screen display, the touch targets associated with an application. A touch is detected at a first touch-screen location. The application is queried to determined a first touch target located within a predetermined touch region of the first touch-screen location. The application is then queries to determine whether a second touch target is located within the predetermined touch region. The touch is them disambiguated to determine whether the touch was intended for the first touch target or the second touch target.

Interpreting ambiguous inputs on a touch-screen

Aspects of the present invention provide a system and method for scrolling or dragging information on a display. A panning tool is provided that may scroll information, such as a web page, on a display in tandem with movement of a cursor. If interactive elements are present on the page or document, an interactive element may be activated as desired. Scrolling may be accomplished with the panning tool either on non-interactive elements or interactive elements that are not required to be activated. Furthermore, inertia of movement of the information on a display is optimized and autoscrolling is provided in which a page or document may be scrolled without dragging.

Scrolling web pages using direct interaction

A method for interpreting ambiguous click events in relation to click targets on a touch-screen display disposed at respective click target locations includes detecting a touch at a touch location and determining whether the touch location corresponds to a click target location. The method also includes searching for nearby click target locations in a predetermined click region and, upon locating a first click target location within the predetermined click region, associating the touch with the first click target location to identify a click event. A computing device for facilitating accurate touch input targeting with respect to a touch-screen display includes a display component, a touch detection component, a targeting component that associates a touch with a click target, and an event detection component that associates the touch with one of a right click event, a left click event, or a drag event.

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Richard Jennings Duncan