Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Suresh Babu Velagapudi

Ming Gang Liu

Raman Narayanan

Paresh S Suthar

Russell P Songco

Rajendra Vishnumurty

Wei Zeng

Sterling M Reasor

Ravipal S Soin

Matthew P Rhoten

Radoslav Petrov Nickolov

Rajendra H Vishnumurty

John Scott Stephens

William Mak

Krishna V Kotipalli

Jerry R Hughson, Jr

Piero Sierra

Aleksandr Gil

Ming Liu

Paresh Suthar

Russell Songco

Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing media content sharing. The concepts and technologies disclosed herein can be employed to share media content with a social network, even for content subject to access control mechanisms and/or copyright laws. According to various embodiments disclosed herein, media content can be shared with a social network, or the like. An application running at or in conjunction with a computer can obtain information relating to media content displayed at or accessible to the computer, format the data, and transmit the data to a social networking site or other location in a format appropriate for the site. Contents and technologies for viewing the shared content also are disclosed.

Social network media sharing with client library

Metadata based enhanced search capabilities are provided in conjunction with e-reader experience. Metadata associated with content and objects within displayed content is created based on default and/or custom rules. The metadata such as attributes, tags, etc. is indexed and used to augment search queries based on selected portions of the displayed content. Additional search augmentation is performed based on user-defined metadata or processing of objects such as image recognition of image objects and similar processes.

Content and object metadata based search in e-reader environment

A system and process for interacting with a system in an insecure state is described. Before logging into a secure state of a computer system, a user is able to access limited information including calendar information regarding meetings for that day and the like. In some aspects of the invention, a user may interact with a displayed note pad for receiving handwritten or typed notes. Aspects of the described system and method permit a user to quickly review or interact with a computer prior to logging into a secured state of the computer system.

Pre-login data access

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