Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Andrew Salamatov

Jason Todd Henderson

Oleg Ouliankine

David Claux

Warren Randall Byrne

Sudhakar Pasupuleti

Ryan Edward Gregg

Justin B Mahood

Carlos Brito

Pretish Abraham

Philip Yue-Leung Chan

Juan Gabriel Balmori Labra

Angela So

Kee Hyuk Park

Shivani Chaturvedi

Chia-Wei Chang

Paul Virag

Lawrence Fubini Waldman

Shahar Prish

Michael Anthony Faoro

Yamin Wang

David Andrew Sterling

Razvan Mathias

Zhenyu Tang

Keyur Rahul Patel

Rolando Jimenez-Salgado

Giselli Panontini De Souza Sana

Joseph Wai-Yan Woo

Steven Michael Clagg

Mark Brewster

Matthias Adam Leibmann

Rolando Jimenez Salgado

Humberto Lezama Guadarrama

Patrick Michael Conlan

Brian Kress

Peter Wu

Runzhen Huang

Jiajun Hua

Oleg Ovanesyan

Steve Clagg

Michael J Saunders

Gabriel Royer

Rennan Garrett Broussard

Amit Mohindra

Daniel Mark Saunders

Rajanikanth Naduppalayam Thandavan

Ben Sack

An extensibility model is used to provide active and interactive functionality in communication items, but the embodiments are not so limited. A computer system of an embodiment includes components configured to identify one or more activation triggers that operate to activate gadget code using an isolated code execution environment as part of injecting content into an email communication. A method of one embodiment provides an extensibility framework for using defined gadget triggers and associated gadget functionality as part of automatically injecting content inline with a mail message.

Extensibility features for electronic communications

Activating an extension includes opening a first compose application by a first computing device. A composed document is received, and an extension is activated in response to the document. The extension may be activated as the document is being composed.

Compose application extension activation

Application extension management may be provided. Upon logging into a user device by a user, a list of a plurality of extensions associated with the user may be retrieved from a central repository. Access to each of the plurality of extensions associated with the user on the user device may then be provided to the user device.

Installation and management of client extensions

Extension activation may be provided. Upon receiving a new document associated with a plurality of related documents, extension trigger conditions may be evaluated. In response to determining that an extension trigger is satisfied, a user interface element associated with the extension trigger may be displayed.

Extension activation for related documents

Mechanisms are described herein for propagating a theme definition from a host application to a host extension so that the host application and the host extension are visually consistent. A theme definition may be updated after a theme change event occurs as a result of a user interacting with the host application. The theme definition may then be utilized by the host extension to update one or more UI elements presented by the host extension to enable visual consistency.

Propagating theming information from host applications to host extensions

A computing device provides a first server. The first server receives a primary request associated with a client. In response to receiving the primary request, the first server processes the primary request to generate a response message. As part of processing the primary request, the first server sends a secondary request to a second server after a delay period expires. The second server accesses a resource as part of processing of the secondary request. The duration of the delay period depends at least in part on a recent latency level of the client with regard to the resource. In this way, the first server throttles access to the resource.

Throttling usage of resources

A rule based analysis of content is provided to manage activation of a web extension. A user interaction with the content launches a process to match a rule from the manifest to a portion of the content. The rule and the detected content are loaded into memory. The content is processed using the rule and by accessing the memory containing the content to determine a match. An application may choose to process the content using the rules on a background thread to avoid impacting user's experience. An activation control is displayed for the web extension associated with the rule within a web extension pane upon matching the rule to an item in the content.

Providing rule based analysis of content to manage activation of web extension

Concepts and technologies are described herein for cross-platform application programming interfaces for applications. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, the cross-platform APIs support interoperability and extensibility with various application programs using a single language and/or set of APIs. Extensions authored for a particular application program may be used with other application programs that expose the same or a similar set of APIs, even if other object models or APIs associated with the application programs differ from one another. Thus, the APIs support cross-platform, cross-device, and cross-version compatibility of extensions.

Cross-platform application programming interfaces for applications

A web extension is managed through a manifest file. An application managing the web extension receives attributes of the extension from a developer or metadata of the extension. A pointer to the web extension is inserted into the attributes. The pointer can be used as a link to activate the web extension. The attributes are stored in a manifest file formatted in extensible markup language (XML). The functionality of the web extension is managed based on the manifest file.

Managing web extension through manifest file

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