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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2012
Panos C. Panay, Redmond, WA (US);
Sharon Drasnin, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael D. Mccormack, Seattle, WA (US);
John E. Inman, Duvall, WA (US);
Steve Seixeiro, Snohomish, WA (US);
Anthony Christian Reed, Sammamish, WA (US);
Ralf Groene, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jeffrey Jay Johnson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Panos C. Panay, Redmond, WA (US);
Sharon Drasnin, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael D. McCormack, Seattle, WA (US);
John E. Inman, Duvall, WA (US);
Steve Seixeiro, Snohomish, WA (US);
Anthony Christian Reed, Sammamish, WA (US);
Ralf Groene, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jeffrey Jay Johnson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
User experience adaptation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a connection portion configured to be removably physically and communicatively with a computing device, a housing physically connected to the connection portion and providing an outer surface having one or more characteristics that are viewable by a user, and memory disposed within the housing and configured to communicate data to the computing device via the connection portion, the data usable by the computing device to dynamically adapt a user interface displayable by a display device of the computing device to mimic the one or more physical characteristics of the housing.