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William D Carr

Orry Wijanarko Soegiono

Jan-Kristian Markiewicz

Gerrit H Hofmeester

Paul J Kwiatkowski

Ross Nathaniel Luengen

Robert Disano

Rebecca J Deutsch

Holger Kuehnle

Nicholas Randall Waggoner

Theresa B Pittappilly

Felix Gerard Torquil Ifor Andrew

Benjamin J Smith

Jeff West

Steven Abrahams

Ana Lilia Otero Diaz

Geoffrey T Ebersol

Hamid Mahmood

Kshitij Mehta

Bede Jordan

Ramona Canan

Jesse Bishop

Joao Celestino Leite Pinheiro De Paiva

Yang Liu

Clark L Masterson

Meghan McNeil

Susmitha Kothari

Fernando Henrique Inocêncio Borba Ferreira

Semantic zoom techniques are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are described that may be utilized by a user to navigate to content of interest. These techniques may also include a variety of different features, such as to support semantic swaps and zooming 'in' and “out.” These techniques may also include a variety of different input features, such as to support gestures, cursor-control device, and keyboard inputs. A variety of other features are also supported as further described in the detailed description and figures.

Semantic zoom animations

Semantic zoom techniques are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are described that may be utilized by a user to navigate to content of interest. These techniques may also include a variety of different features, such as to support semantic swaps and zooming 'in' and 'out.' These techniques may also include a variety of different input features, such as to support gestures, cursor-control device, and keyboard inputs. A variety of other features are also supported as further described in the detailed description and figures.

Technologies are described for generating geographically-driven group communications involve maintaining location information for multiple user devices, data defining geographic regions, and rules that identify a geographical region to which the rules applies and a communication and payload to be sent. When an update in the location information, geographical regions or rules is detected, an evaluation is performed to determine whether a user client device is located in the geographical region identified for the rule. If so, the communication and payload defined in the rule are sent to the user client devices for a group of users located in the geographical region for the rule. In some examples, the rule defines a group characteristic condition and the communication and payload are sent to the user client devices for users that satisfy the group characteristic condition.

Geographically-driven group communications

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

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