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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Nora I. Micheva, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthew Gregory Hidinger, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew Tyler Bares, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Providing context from a dynamic icon to an underlying application. A method includes displaying dynamically, at a dynamic icon, a plurality of context elements. Each of the context elements corresponds to an item available in an application underlying the dynamic icon. The method further includes receiving user input at the dynamic icon indicating a desire to open an application underlying the dynamic icon. The method further includes, providing to the application underlying the dynamic icon an indication of a context element that was being displayed at the dynamic icon when the user input was received.