Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Allison Anne O'Mahony

Jonathan Reed Harris

Ashok Kuppusamy

Jaclyn Carley Knapp

Jesse Daniel Eskes Rusak

Richard Leigh Mains

Chad Steven Estes

Jayant Sivarama Krishnamurthy

Michael Francis Palermiti, Ii

Harris Syed

David Ernesto Heekin Burkett

Diego Hernan Carlomagno

Talon Edward Ireland

Jose Miguel Rady Allende

Song Zou

Gregory Thomas Mattox, Jr

Brian Daniel Beck

Carmen Quan

Andrew Paul McGovern

Viktoriya Taranov

Michael John Bray

Omobayonle AyoYinka Olatunji

Francisco Jose Garcia-Ascanio

Christopher Wallace Heuser

Peter Nils Skillman

Lola Marie Ball

Eduardo Quijano Rivadeneyra

Patrick Seth Donoghue

Tudor Buzasu Klein

Sergiy Gavrylenko

Ross Nathaniel Luengen

Balaji Balasubramanyan

Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose

Melora Zaner-Godsey

Tammy Savage

Martin J Hall

Richard W Zarick

Michael C Kunz

Rodney Coleman Edwards

Roger Lueder

Wende E Copfer

Rachel Karin Popkin

Mona Akmal

Daniel Vincent Fiordalis

Graeme Andrew Kyle Roche

Darwin Kengo Yamamoto

Shane Wyatt Zamora

Joshua Adam Alpern Boehm

David Diffenbaugh

Joseph Wiggs

Alyssa Irwin

Denise Elisabeth Signer

Adam Linkon

Andrew Paul Mcgovern

Various embodiments discussed herein enable client applications to be heavily integrated with a voice assistant in order to perform commands associated with voice utterances of users via voice assistant functionality and also seamlessly cause client applications to automatically perform native functions as part of executing the voice utterance. Such heavy integration also allows particular embodiments to support multi-modal input from a user for a single conversational interaction. In this way, client application user interface interactions, such as clicks, touch gestures, or text inputs are executed alternative or in addition to the voice utterances.

Voice assistant-enabled client application with user view context and multi-modal input support

Various embodiments discussed herein enable client applications to be heavily integrated with a voice assistant in order to both perform commands associated with voice utterances of users via voice assistant functionality and also seamlessly cause client applications to automatically perform native functions as part of executing the voice utterance. For example, some embodiments can automatically and intelligently cause a switch to a page the user needs and automatically and intelligently cause a population of particular fields of the page the user needs based on a user view context and the voice utterance.

Voice assistant-enabled client application with user view context

Implementing people as operating system level objects. A method includes, for a user logged in to an operating system, identifying a person with a relationship to the user. For the person, the method further includes identifying information, including information that can be used to communication with the person. The method further includes storing the information related to the person in a data store that is a global data store with respect to the operating system such that the information related to the person can be accessed at the operating system level. The method further includes using the information related to the person stored in the data store to identify applications or services that can be used to communicate with the person. The method further includes displaying in a user interface for the person an enumeration of applications or services that can be used to communicate with the person.

Person centric applications

A computer-implemented technique is described herein for presenting notifications on a user interface presentation of a recipient computing device. The technique is considered tiered because it distinguishes between first-type (people-centric) notifications and second-type notifications, and because it processes and presents first-type notifications in a privileged manner compared to the second-type notifications. For instance, the technique presents content associated with each first-type notification in an allocated window that appears in positional association with a person indicator, where that person indicator identifies the person who sent the first-type notification; the technique presents each second-type notification in a different manner. In some implementations, an application developer who designs a custom first-type notification is given authority to draw within the allocated window that is used to present the custom first-type notification in a manner specified by the application developer.

Tiered notification framework

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing a client application with access to a file based upon a local offline version of the file and/or web online version of the file. That is, a file may be shared/synchronized from a remote source, such as a web storage service. A web online version of the file may be maintained by the web storage service, while local offline versions of the file may be stored at client devices. A sync module comprising knowledge of the local and/or web versions of the file may provide a client application with access to the file based upon the local and/or web version of the file. The sync module may also delegate synchronization authorization to the client application given that the client application may comprise sophisticated file handling functionality.

Client application file access

A user may operate many devices, each of which may provide a set of actions, such as installing firmware or software or viewing the contents of the device. However, in order to perform these actions, the user may have to interact with each device using a different user interface, resulting in an inconsistent user experience. Instead, a device action service may allow a user to identify his or her devices, may identify the actions available for each device (e.g., by interacting with a device source of each device, such as a manufacturer); and upon the request of the user, may present a list of the user's devices and the actions available for each device. The actions may comprise hyperlinks to various portions of the website of the device source (e.g., a driver page and a service registration page), or controls invoking the requested action upon the device.

Device action service

Multipersona creation and management is described. In one of a variety of examples, a system provides creation and management of multiple personas of a single user. Each of the personas, for instance, may have an associated external representation of the user, such as user tile, alias, email address, and so on. These personas may then be managed, both automatically and manually, to provide different external representations of the user as desired.

Multipersona creation and management

A customizable service provider user interface is described. In an implementation, a user is logged onto a suite a web services, to which, the user has not previously logged on. A user interface is output having a plurality of portions, one or more of which are customizable by the user through use of one or more overlays to customize interaction with the suite of web services.

Customizable service provider user interface

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Allison Anne O'Mahony