Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Xianfeng Tian

Robert D Young

Eric Boller Fleegal

Jim Tom Belesiu

Amar Vattakandy

Chris Whitman

Daniel M Sangster

Scott Robert Honji

Kevin John Smith

Richard Shailer Turner, Jr

Mark Vulfson

Richard Turner

Various embodiments related to a host computing device for rendering and sending image data to a peripheral device for display at the peripheral device. For example, one embodiment comprises a host computing device, the host computing device comprising a data storage subsystem and a logic subsystem. The host computing device further comprises instructions stored in the data storage subsystem and executable by the logic subsystem to output to the peripheral device a frame of image data representing a difference between a currently rendered image and an (N&#x2212;1)-th previously rendered image, N being an integer and having a value of 3 or more.

Updating image in buffer via difference data

Data simulation using host data storage chain

A computing system includes one or more input-device user-interface runtime applications to dynamically display images on a dynamic input device. The one or more input-device user-interface runtime applications are executed in a currently active desktop. The computing system further includes a dominant application configured to execute in the currently active desktop. The dominant application is configured to specify an input-device user-interface runtime application corresponding to a current context of the dominant application. The specified input-device user-interface runtime application is configured to dynamically display virtual controls on the dynamic input device. The specified input-device user-interface runtime application is also configured to report activation of the virtual controls to the dominant application.

Contextual control of dynamic input device

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