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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2013
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Stephen E Hodges, Cambridge, GB;
John Helmes, Tegelen, NL;
James W Scott, Cambridge, GB;
Nicolas Villar, Cambridge, GB;
Stuart Taylor, Cambridge, GB;
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for displaying dynamic status information on a plurality of devices and enabling interactions between these devices are described. In an embodiment, a trigger signal is sent to one or more computing devices to trigger the launch of an application client on the computing device. The trigger signal is generated on another device in response to a user interacting with the displayed status information. This other device may be an impoverished device which displays status information for an application but is not capable of running the application client. In various embodiments, the status information is displayed in the form of a GUI element called a tile and this status information may be pushed to the device by a proxy server. The trigger signal may be sent to multiple devices or in some embodiments, a computing device may be selected to receive the trigger signal.