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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsGeorge P. Moromisato, Noah B. Edelstein, Aditya G. Bhandarkar, Raymond E. Ozzie, Abhay V. Parasnis
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An apparatus and method provide a companion application via a companion application corresponding to a host window provided by a host application, the companion window providing information or metadata descriptive of data in the host window. The host application and companion applications may be separate applications such that the host application is unaware of the companion application. The companion application may hook into the host application (e.g., via an application programming interface) and may monitor host application activities and/or data. Based on identification of data or events in the host application, the companion application may obtain information characterizing or providing a context for data provided by the host application. The host window and companion window may be attached to each other, the host window providing host application data and the companion window providing data describing the host application data.
A method performed on a computing device, the method comprising:
A system comprising a computing device and at least one program module together configured for performing actions comprising:
At least one computer storage media that is an article of manufacture and that stores computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform actions comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.