Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Aaron Hartwell

Ronald Eric Gray

Nicole A Bonilla

Joseph Warren

Brendan Power

Karl Froelich

Robert Novitskey

Remi Alain Lemarchand

Brent E Curtis

Mike Pell

Alec C Dun

Jason C Mayans

Alvin Mok

Andy Brauninger

Steven F Goddard

Hernan I Savastano

David A Raissipour

Rebekah Yozell-Epstein

Joseph R Warren

Erich S Finkelstein

Michael C Price

Robert R Novitskey

Ronald E Gray

Remi A Lemarchand

Brent Curtis

Hernan Savastano

Matthew Jay Kotler

Erez Kikin-Gil

Stephen Thomas Wells

Doreen Nelson Grieb

Brian L Trenbeath

Joseph K W Chan

Kendall D Keil

Xiaowen Shan

Dale Koetke

Jaimin K Gandhi

A Perry Clarke

Samantha S Yang

Marc R Allen

Min Zhong

Gulsen Demiroz

A search and find user interface is provided that is integrated with a data indexing engine to allow efficient and high-speed data search and retrieval across data storage folders associated with a given software module or associated with a number of disparate software modules. An expanded form of the search and find user interface is provided for advanced searching. Where searching is required beyond a present search scope, an automatic 'upscoping' mechanism is provided for expanding a search to data storage folders outside a current data storage folder on which an initial search is executed.

Expanded search and find user interface

A collection environment comprises a collection canvas. The collection canvas may have included therein written text and a file graphic associated with a media file. Responsive to an invocation of the media file, media controls with which to control a media mode associated with the media file are presented. Responsive to a modification to the media mode initiated through the media controls, an appearance of the file graphic is modified to reflect the modification to the media mode.

Modification of file graphic appearance within a collection canvas

Embodiments of the present invention relate to set of improvements to the out of office assistant that send out of office messages to senders of messages while a recipient is out of the office. One embodiment of the out of office assistant associates an out of office message with a calendar event to ensure the out of office message is sent only for the predetermined time period associated with the calendar event. Other embodiments of the out of office assistant generating different messages to people internal to an organization and people external to an organization, and the out of office assistant allows different rich text formatting for the different messages. In a further embodiment, a persistent reminder reminds the user that the out of office message application is turned on.

Out of office message improvements

A system and method for improved client and server communications, more particularly, an improved protocol that may be used for communication between a client and a server, such as in an email environment. Many features are provided for improved communications. An email server may provide the best message body available for an email message, may transfer an entire data object if requested property or properties are not well defined within the data object, may provide progress data for use in tracking download progress, and may send error information for a data object having an error. Email changes may be optimized at an email server component, even if the email changes occurred at another email server component. An email server may maintain a table of changes that occur to folders at an associated data store, and may notify a subscribed email client component of changes that occur in the table.

System and method for improved synchronization between a server and a client

A method and computer-readable medium are provided for navigation between attachments to electronic mail messages. According to the method, a list of e-mail messages is displayed that includes header information associated with each of the messages. When one of the messages in the list is selected, a determination is made as to whether the selected message has attachments. If the selected message has attachments, an identifier is displayed adjacent to the header information for each attachment. The identifier indicates that the attachment is associated with the selected message and may provide other information such as the type and size of the attachment. The identifiers are displayed in a manner to indicate clearly to a user that the attachments are associated with the selected e-mail message. The identifiers may be selected to preview the corresponding attachment.

Method and computer-readable medium for navigating between attachments to electronic mail messages

Integrated search and find user interface

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Aaron Hartwell