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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2014
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Karin Zilberstein, Kirkland, WA (US);
Enrique de la Garza, Sammamish, WA (US);
Leah Hobart, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shirlene Lim, Redmond, WA (US);
Jonathan Winslow Anderson, Seattle, WA (US);
Carolyn J. Fuson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Increased user interaction performance in group settings is achieved by providing individually interactive secondary content to individual users of a group of users, including a group that is consuming content from a single display device. A group of users is defined based upon detected commonalities. Secondary content is concurrently presented to the defined group of users and includes both non-interactive and interactive content. The interactive content is individually and separately presented to multiple users of the defined group, including co-located users that were consuming the primary content from a single physical display device. The individual and separate presentation includes presenting multiple panels, or sub-divisions, on the single physical display device, with individual, separate panels directed to individual ones of the multiple co-located users and the utilization of personal computing devices that are associated with specific ones of the multiple co-located users.