公开(公告)号：US20240004671A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-04

申请号：US17852881

申请日：2022-06-29

申请人： MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

发明人： Connor Colin Marwan AL-JOUNDI ,  Eric Norman BADGER ,  Tyler DUCKWORTH ,  Stephanie Ling DIAO ,  Emily Lynn BENDER ,  Jerome Stephen HEALY ,  Jan-Kristian MARKIEWICZ ,  Sophia Sixue CHEN

IPC分类号： G06F9/4401 ,  H05B47/155 ,  H05B47/18 ,  H05B47/17 ,  G06F3/0484

CPC分类号： G06F9/4411 ,  H05B47/155 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  H05B47/17 ,  H05B47/18

摘要： The techniques disclosed herein implement a centralized lighting module configured to control a diverse set of lighting-enabled peripheral devices. The set of lighting-enabled peripheral devices is diverse with respect to a type and a manufacturer. The lighting module is referred to as a centralized lighting module because the lighting module is part of an operating system of a computing device. Consequently, a user of the computing device no longer has to download and learn to use multiple different lighting applications if the user wants to create a diverse lighting ecosystem in which lighting-enabled peripheral devices from different manufacturers are connected to the computing device. Similarly, a developer of a computing application no longer has to engage and interact with multiple application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) if the developer wants users of their computing application to be able to create a diverse lighting ecosystem.

公开(公告)号：US20240295942A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-05

申请号：US18216512

申请日：2023-06-29

申请人： MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

发明人： Thomas Henry ALPHIN, III ,  Jan-Kristian MARKIEWICZ ,  Jan H. KARACHALE ,  Benjamin J. SCHOEPKE ,  Ryan Brennen CUPPERNULL ,  William Scott STAUBER ,  Aury Fuchsia DELMAR ,  Yashraj M. BORSE ,  Albert Peter YIH ,  Jeffrey Matthew SMITH ,  Michael Pe VON HIPPEL ,  Robert Armen MIKHAYELYAN ,  Eric Norman BADGER ,  Ryan Lee SOLORZANO ,  Nishitha BURMAN ,  Juan Sebastian SEPULVEDA VARON ,  Jerome HEALY

IPC分类号： G06F3/04812 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F9/451

CPC分类号： G06F3/04812 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F9/451 ,  G06F40/166

摘要： Disclosed is an operating system (OS) discovery mode that identifies and provides access to OS and/or third-party provided features within an applicable region of a desktop. In some configurations, once the discovery mode is activated, the content displayed by the applicable region is analyzed to identify content usable by OS and/or third-party provided features. Visual cues are rendered in the applicable region near the identified content, highlighting the availability of the OS and/or third-party provided features. Users may interact with the visual cues to manipulate the underlying content or to invoke the OS and/or third-party provided features. OS and/or third-party provided features may modify content displayed by an application, launch an inline micro-experience, crop or export images, etc. While in the discovery mode, visual cues are highlighted as a discovery mouse cursor moves around the desktop. In some configurations the discovery mode is triggered automatically, causing an OS service to automatically identify and display a set of entity visual cues across the applicable region.

公开(公告)号：US20240311161A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-19

申请号：US18671342

申请日：2024-05-22

申请人： MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

发明人： Connor Colin Marwan AL-JOUNDI ,  Eric Norman BADGER ,  Tyler DUCKWORTH ,  Stephanie Ling DIAO ,  Emily Lynn BENDER ,  Jerome Stephen HEALY ,  Jan-Kristian MARKIEWICZ ,  Sophia Sixue CHEN

IPC分类号： G06F9/4401 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  H05B47/155 ,  H05B47/17 ,  H05B47/18

CPC分类号： G06F9/4411 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  H05B47/155 ,  H05B47/17 ,  H05B47/18

摘要： The techniques disclosed herein implement a centralized lighting module configured to control a diverse set of lighting-enabled peripheral devices. The set of lighting-enabled peripheral devices is diverse with respect to a type and a manufacturer. The lighting module is referred to as a centralized lighting module because the lighting module is part of an operating system of a computing device. Consequently, a user of the computing device no longer has to download and learn to use multiple different lighting applications if the user wants to create a diverse lighting ecosystem in which lighting-enabled peripheral devices from different manufacturers are connected to the computing device. Similarly, a developer of a computing application no longer has to engage and interact with multiple application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) if the developer wants users of their computing application to be able to create a diverse lighting ecosystem.