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Steven Abrahams

Asta Jane Roseway

Troy A Schauls

George Joy

Melora Zaner-Godsey

Nicole Danielle Steinbok

Ranjib Singh Badh

Vasudha Chandrasekaran

Geeven Singh

Marcella C S Rader

Aarthi Natarajan

Vlad Cretu

Seshagiri Panchapagesan

Brian Scott Moudy

Amy Wai-Yee Ip

Jeroen Van Turennout

Richard Michael Eames

John R Selbie

Alexandra K Heron

Kandarp Jani

K Aaron Williams

Alexander K Heron

Orry Wijanarko Soegiono

Anders Bertil Vinberg

Benjamin J Smith

Jeff West

Benjamin Salim Srour

Paul A George

Adam Christopher Czeisler

Dustin Michael Ingalls

Ana Lilia Otero Diaz

Alton Kwok

Geoffrey T Ebersol

Marisol Ontaneda

Hamid Mahmood

Kshitij Mehta

Bede Jordan

William D Carr

James Andrew Canitz

Jesse Bishop

Ramona Canan

Yang Liu

Stephen Sisk

Andrew Timothy Hopper

Travis Dustin Sweat

Susmitha Kothari

Drew Canitz

Larry Wickline

Brian W Ratzliff

Jeffrey D Gale

Jeffrey A Huse

Jeffrey T Seely

Meghan McNeil

Marcella CS Rader

A graphical user interface for a computer includes a dial control. The control can be implemented, for example, as a touch-based, pointer-based, pen-based and/or keyboard-based mechanism. The dial control is intended for manipulating a large range of values, such as a menu of items from which a user makes a selection, or a range of continuous or discrete values. A dial control can replace other control types such as a slider, drop down menu or text field. The graphical elements of the dial control include one or more displayed rings and a handle for each ring. Inside the ring, or in another area adjacent the ring, a value can be displayed. The ring can be manipulated by the user to change the value selected by the dial control. In the case of multiple rings, each ring can be manipulated independently.

Graphical user interface with dial control for a parameter

Content sharing and instant messaging are described. In an implementation, a first user interface is displayed at a first client that is configured to provide instant messaging with a second client having a second user interface. One or more content items are output in the first user interface to be controllable via both the first user interface and the second user interface.

Content sharing and instant messaging

A computer-based aggregated security investment service interacts with one or more customers via one or more communication links. The service allows multiple customers to execute aggregated purchase orders of securities in dollar increments. Customers setting up accounts have the ability to select numerous different types of individual, joint, conventional, or tax advantaged accounts. The present invention also provides a mechanism for reducing the exposure of the investment service to purchases of securities with fluctuating prices by staggering share purchases as two or more sub-orders. Finally, the present invention provides a method of producing customized communications for users associated with a non-affiliated organization without requiring separate hardware components for each organization.

Computer-based aggregated securities investment service

Techniques described herein allow for suggesting creation of distribution lists and suggesting use of distribution lists once they have been created. For instance, these techniques may track a frequency with which contacts (e.g., email addresses, phone numbers, screen names, etc.) are used with one another. The techniques may then suggest that a user create a distribution list that includes those contacts. Furthermore, once a contact has been associated with a particular distribution list, these techniques may suggest that a user send a message to this distribution list in response to the user selecting the contact (rather than the list) as a destination of the message.

Creation and suggestion of contact distribution lists

Various technologies pertaining to instant messaging are described herein. A persistent instant messaging group is created, wherein the persistent instant messaging group comprises a plurality of members and persists over a plurality of instant messaging sessions. Instances of an instant messaging application are installed on mobile telephones, and the instant messaging application is used to transmit instant messages between members of the persistent instant messaging group. Messages directed towards offline members of the persistent instant messaging group are transmitted to such members when they come online.

Persisting a group in an instant messaging application

Various technologies for sharing digital images within an instant messaging (IM) session between two users. In one implementation, a first user uploads a set of images to the second user. The set of images may be displayed as thumbnails on the displays of both users. By clicking on one of the thumbnails, either user may make the associated image appear as a larger image on both users' displays. In the event that both users click on different images simultaneously, or near-simultaneously, a protocol may be employed that selects which image is displayed.

Peer-to-peer synchronous content selection

A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a request to create a persistent messaging group for an instant messaging application, wherein the request includes an indication of one or more entities that are desired to be members of the persistent messaging group. The system further includes a group creator component that creates the persistent messaging group based at least in part upon the received group creation request, wherein the persistent messaging group is persisted over multiple instant messaging sessions.

Systems management navigation and focus collection is described. In one implementation computing-based managed items which are part of a systems management environment are navigated to locate one or more computing-based managed items. In another implementation, the computing-based managed items are indexed, and then searched to locate one or more of the computing-based managed items from among the computing-based managed items which have been indexed. The searching can be based on one or more search requests. Each of the one or more computing-based managed items located by the navigating and/or the searching is identified by a respective unique identifier, and selected ones of the unique identifiers can be collected in a focus collection where they are at least temporarily maintained for a user.

Systems management navigation and focus collection

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