Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Aaron Michael Butcher

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Jensen Michael Harris

David Andrew Morton

Justin Denney

Daniel John Krenn

Silvana Patricia Moncayo

Warren G Stevens

Laurentiu Titi Nedelcu

Andrew M Himberger

Tracey M Gauthier

Jerin R Schneider

David A Morton

Jane T Kim

Michael J Patten

Felix G T I Andrew

Jeff West

Anthony T Chor

Yan Ke

Robert J Mauceri, Jr

William Joseph Devereux

Olga Veselova

Vikas Rajvanshy

Geoffrey T Ebersol

Sarah J Bowers

John B Bravenec

Patrick Evan Little

Louis A Martinez

Habtamu M Feyessa

Vikas Verma

Mark H Schmidt

Steven Michael McMurray

Darryl James Brown

Erin Elizabeth Dean

Pramod Nammi

Yi Lang Mok

Akshansh Choudhary

Benjamin D Kelly

Michael H Catbagan

Kurian Jacob

Puneet Arora

Steven Oliver Lengieza

Vikram Singh

David B Flink

Jaime Martin Sanchez Lopez

Felix Gerard Torquil Ifor Andrew

Anatolie Gavriliuc

Roland Radtke

Seung-Yup Chai

Ken M Sadahiro

Catherine Rose Morrow

Eugene Joonsup So

Tai Xin

Nandini Bhattacharya

Warren C Stevens

Kangsan Lee

Nicolas A Champagne-Williamson

John D Malatras

Kofi S Opoku

Philippe Favre

Catherine R Morrow

Methods and systems are provided for managing a GUI of a web browser. When a user interaction with a tab presentation control is detected, a horizontal tab strip having first navigation tab controls for a set of webpages is removed, and a vertical tab strip having second navigation tab controls for the same set of webpages is displayed in a vertical column in the browser. In response to detecting a user hover interaction with the vertical tab strip while the vertical tab strip is in a collapsed state, the vertical tab strip is expanded from the collapsed state to an expanded state. In response to termination of the user hover interaction, the vertical tab strip is collapsed from the expanded state to the collapsed state. The vertical tab strip in the collapsed state occupies a smaller portion of the GUI then the vertical tab strip in the expanded state.

Navigation tab control organization and management for web browsers

Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for spoiler prevention. Media consumption applications may be placed in 'spoiler-free' mode, for example, to prevent media content from spoiling first-hand user experience. A user may provide and/or authorize access to and use of spoiler prevention information. A user may request media content (e.g., while surfing the Internet). Digital media content to be presented to a user may be searched in real-time and/or pre-searched for spoiler content and/or associated spoiler indications relative to spoiler prevention information. Identified spoiler content may be concealed from users. A procedure may be provided for users to determine one or more reasons why content is concealed, to selectively reveal concealed content, and to provide feedback whether concealed content was or was not spoiler content for a user. Feedback may be used to improve spoiler prevention, for example, by retraining a machine learning model, which may be user-specific.

Spoiler prevention

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for surfacing collected web content are presented. A collection of web content may be maintained, wherein the collection of web content is divided into a plurality of sections, each of the plurality of sections comprising a subset of web content from a different webpage. An indication to export the collection of web content to a productivity application may be received. A plurality of attributes that each of the plurality of sections have a value for may be identified. A productivity application document may be populated with the plurality of attributes and the corresponding values from each of the sections.

Transforming collections of curated web data

Methods, systems, and computer program products are described herein for unsupervised clustering of browser history using web navigational activities. For example, correlation scores are calculated that indicate correlations between web pages indicated in a browsing history of a user. Moreover, the correlation scores are calculated based on web navigational activities determined from the browsing history. In addition, the web pages are clustered into a plurality of clusters based on the correlation scores and the clusters are ranked for relevancy to the user based on a relevancy algorithm. The relevancy algorithm determines a likelihood that a user will access a corresponding web page for each web page of a cluster. A cluster having a greatest ranking is identified and an indication of a web page of the identified cluster as a suggested web page to revisit is provided to a user.

Unsupervised clustering of browser history using web navigational activities

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for sharing collected web content are provided. A collection of web content may be maintained, wherein the collection of web content is divided into a plurality of sections, each of the plurality of sections comprising a subset of web content from a different webpage, and wherein a first user has administrative rights associated with the collection of web content. An indication to provide a second user with access to the collection of web content may be received from the first user. The second user may be provided with access to the collection of web content.

Collaboration and sharing of curated web data from an integrated browser experience

An improved user interface is provided for displaying selectable software functionality controls and for presenting logical groupings of particular functionality controls associated with a selected top-level functionality. Underneath a row of top-level functionality tabs, functionalities controls associated with a given top-level functionality tab are presented in logical groupings. Selection of a particular tab switches modes of the user interface to present controls for functionalities associated with the selected tab.

Command user interface for displaying selectable software functionality controls

An improved user interface is provided for displaying selectable software functionality controls that are relevant to a selected object and that remain visibly available for use while the selected object is being edited. Upon selection of a particular object for editing, functionality available for editing the object is presented in a ribbon-shaped user interface above the software application workspace to allow the user ready and efficient access to functionality needed for editing the selected object. The display of relevant functionality controls is persisted until the user dismisses the display, selects another top-level functionality control or selects another object for editing.

User interface for displaying selectable software functionality controls that are relevant to a selected object

An improved user interface is provided for displaying a gallery of images showing different formatting options combinations that may be applied to a selected object. When a particular image is selected an associated formatting options combination is automatically applied to the selected object.

User interface for displaying a gallery of formatting options

To increase command-access efficiency and to optimize a user's available user interface work space, an improved user interface is provided for displaying logical groupings of selectable software functionality controls that are associated with one or more selected top-level functionalities. Upon selection of a top-level functionality tab, selectable functionalities associated with the top-level functionality tab are divided into logical groupings and are presented in a customizable functionality control section below the tab. Upon selection of a different top-level functionality tab, selectable functionalities associated with the subsequently selected top-level functionality tab may either replace the first functionality control section or may be displayed in a separate functionality control section adjacent to the first functionality control section if real estate is available in the user interface.

Command user interface for displaying multiple sections of software functionality controls

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Aaron Michael Butcher