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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
May. 29, 2013
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Scott E. Dart, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sara L. Yang, Fremont, CA (US);
Antonia C. Blume, Seattle, WA (US);
Benjamin N. Truelove, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Varun Ramesh Mani, Redmond, WA (US);
Benjamin Salim Srour, Seattle, WA (US);
Elena Alina Angelescu, Bellevue, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A user of a device has an account with a service that stores copies of common data that is automatically made available to any of the user's devices and also stores copies of device-specific data that is available to the user on particular user-selected devices but is not automatically made available to all of the user's devices. A set of backed up devices can be displayed to the user of a particular device with various information describing the devices to facilitate user selection of a device, such as a visual representation of the type of the device that was backed up, a visual representation of a desktop or start screen display of the device that was backed up, and so forth. The user can select one of the displayed devices, and in response have the backed up device-specific data for the selected device copied to the particular device.