公开(公告)号：US20190163543A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-30

申请号：US15883807

申请日：2018-01-30

申请人： MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

发明人： Thomas Henry ALPHIN, III ,  Brian Eric UPHOFF ,  Muhammad ATIF ,  Jiwon CHOI

IPC分类号： G06F9/54 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06F3/0483 ,  G06F3/0485

摘要： Technologies are described for resuming activities using activity data collected by an operating system. An operating system provides an application programming interface (“API”) through which applications can submit activity data. The activity data identifies an application and an activity previously performed using the application. The activity data can be presented to users in a UI that includes UI controls corresponding to the reported activities. The UI controls can identify the activity and the application used to perform the activity. The UI controls can be presented in an order determined based upon the time at which the corresponding activity was performed. The UI controls can be selected to resume the corresponding activity. Functionality can also be provided for scrolling through the UI controls, searching the activity data, filtering the represented activities, deleting the activity data corresponding to an activity, and performing other functions.

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.