Abstract: A digital assistant supported on devices such as smartphones, tablets, personal computers, game consoles, etc. exposes an updated and enhanced set of alarm functions to improve a device's user wake-up routines by applying automation rules to a variety of collected or sensed data and inputs in a context-aware manner in order to surface user experiences and content that are contextually meaningful and catered to the particular device user. The digital assistant can support an alarm system having network connectivity to other devices and external systems that enables the user to set an alarm and be awoken using a wide variety of stimuli such as sounds, voice, music, lights, and tactile sensations and then be given a summary of the upcoming day using verbal narration and graphical displays on the device.

Abstract: A digital assistant supported on devices such as smartphones, tablets, personal computers, game consoles, etc. exposes an updated and enhanced set of alarm functions to improve a device's user wake-up routines by applying automation rules to a variety of collected or sensed data and inputs in a context-aware manner in order to surface user experiences and content that are contextually meaningful and catered to the particular device user. The digital assistant can support an alarm system having network connectivity to other devices and external systems that enables the user to set an alarm and be awoken using a wide variety of stimuli such as sounds, voice, music, lights, and tactile sensations and then be given a summary of the upcoming day using verbal narration and graphical displays on the device.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a shared space for communicating information. In an embodiment a number of users associated with a computing environment can use a shared space to communicate information with one another. Each computing device of the computing environment can include a shared space application. The shared space application includes a number of interactive tools that can be used to persist various communications between associated computing devices of a computing environment.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a shared space for communicating information. In an embodiment a number of users associated with a computing environment can use a shared space to communicate information with one another. Each computing device of the computing environment can include a shared space application. The shared space application includes a number of interactive tools that can be used to persist various communications between associated computing devices of a computing environment.

Abstract: A responsive input architecture that provides an intuitive and consistent layout and organization for search input across many different types of user devices. The architecture provides user interface consistency for all devices thereby enabling a user to seamlessly resume a search for information started on one device, on another user device. A user interface is provided that presents personalized past, present, and future aspects related to a search, while the user is entering the query, which are represented in the user interface with the past aspect as a top interactable portion (a historical listing), the present aspect as a middle interactable portion (a query entry field) and the future aspect as a bottom interactable portion (a suggestion listing). A backend system provides auto-suggestions for the user interface.

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed herein that relate to displaying information from search results and other sets of information as augmented reality images. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method of presenting information via a computing device comprising a camera and a display. The method includes displaying a representation of each of one or more items of information of a set of electronically accessible items of information. The method further comprises receiving a user input requesting display of a selected item of the set of electronically accessible items of information, obtaining an image of a physical scene, and displaying the image of the physical scene and the selected item together on the display as an augmented reality image.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a shared space for communicating information. In an embodiment a number of users associated with a computing environment can use a shared space to communicate information with one another. Each computing device of the computing environment can include a shared space application. The shared space application includes a number of interactive tools that can be used to persist various communications between associated computing devices of a computing environment.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a shared space for communicating information. In an embodiment a number of users associated with a computing environment can use a shared space to communicate information with one another. Each computing device of the computing environment can include a shared space application. The shared space application includes a number of interactive tools that can be used to persist various communications between associated computing devices of a computing environment.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a shared space for communicating information. In an embodiment a number of users associated with a computing environment can use a shared space to communicate information with one another. Each computing device of the computing environment can include a shared space application. The shared space application includes a number of interactive tools that can be used to persist various communications between associated computing devices of a computing environment.

Abstract: A method and system for implementing a traffic channel is described herein. A traffic route with a start location and an end location is selected by a user. A plurality of intermediate traffic locations along the traffic route is displayed. The user selects one or more of the displayed intermediate traffic locations. The selected traffic locations are stored for the selected traffic route. Traffic information corresponding to the selected traffic locations for the selected traffic route may then be displayed.

Abstract: Described is changing the perceived appearance of a switch by writing content (e.g., an icon) to a switch assembly to change the context of the switch based upon a hardware device's current operating context and/or by changing the perceived color of the switch based upon the hardware device's current operating context. The switch may be layered, for example, with a transparent cover associated with a light guide that can change color via a controlled LED, a writeable surface and an underlying switch (e.g., physical or capacitive sensed) mechanism. Upon detecting interaction with a user interface, the appearance of a switch is based on a current context of the user interface. The system includes means for writing to the writeable surface so that it corresponds to the current context of the program.