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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2015
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventor:
Matthias Baer, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/74 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/74 (2013.01); G06F 21/6263 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
Operating system privacy mode techniques are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are described to control usage tracking of a computing device. An input is received by an operating system of the computing device to switch to a privacy mode. Responsive to the input, usage tracking is ceased by the operating system of user interaction with the computing device.