Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Brian Scott Ruble

George G Robertson

Sander M Viegers

Samuel C Radakovitz

Miltiadis Vafiadis

Jakob Peter Nielsen

William Guthrie Morein

Sean Boon

Joshua W Lee

Kristin Michele Tolle

Benjamin Edward Rampson

Igor B Peev

Murali R Krishnan

Barry Christopher Allyn

Jason Joseph Weber

Anupam Garg

Christian Bernd Schormann

Michael Victor Ehrenberg

Stella Yick Chan

Aaron James Harrison

Barry James Givens

Nathan Paul McCoy

Jessalynn Uchacz

Samuel Chow Radakovitz

David Earl Heckerman

Curtis Glenn Wong

Bongshin Lee

Roland Lucas Fernandez

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Clinton Dee Covington

Daniel Cory

Jason David Carlson

David Francis Gainer

Matthew John Androski

Christian Olaf Abeln

Pavel R Karimov

Zachary P Woodall

Stephen I Lesser

Kumar Srinivasamurthy

Benjamin L Chronister

Morten Holm-Peterson

Ian Michael Dunmore

Alexandre Gorev

Benjamin Sklar

Abigail Elisabeth Short

Thomas Michael Casey

Kelley T Maves

Gregory D Schechter

Tosh Kawai

Adam Michael Buerman

Matthew Kevin Becker

Kristin M Tolle

Daniel P Cory

Methods and systems for tracking sources of after-hours activity based on events managed via an electronic communication application. One method includes accessing a log storing time information, receiver information, and originator information of an event managed via the electronic communication application, determining, based on the receiver information, a predetermined after-hours period of a receiver of the event, determining, based on the originator information and stored organizational data, an organizational group of an originator of the event, and determining, based on the time information, whether the event occurred during the predetermined after-hours period of the receiver. The method also includes, in response to determining that the event occurred during the predetermined after-hours period of the receiver, adding a value to an after-hours count associated with the organizational group of the originator, and modifying operation of the electronic communication application as used by at least one user included in the organizational group.

Tracking sources of after-hours activity based on events managed via an electronic communication application

A spin control graphical user interface is used to display a currently applied option and to receive options from a user. The spin control is a circular graphical user interface that is positioned near a displayed document to which it applies. For example, the spin control may be positioned on or near a corner of the displayed document. The spin control comprises options that are presented to a user upon rotation of the spin control. An option may be manually selected or automatically selected and applied to the displayed document upon rotating the spin control clockwise or counterclockwise. More than one spin control may be associated with the displayed document. The spin control may be automatically shown and removed from a display in response to whether the document to which the spin control is attached is currently being displayed.

Spin control user interface for selecting options

Selected data is temporarily formatted and charted to assist a user in visualizing the selected data without the user having to manually create the display of the charted data. Once the temporary formatting and charting is automatically applied to the selected data, a user may interact with the visual formatting and charts to gain additional information. For example, the chart may be formatted differently, reference lines may be added, the chart may be sorted, the type of chart(s) displayed may be changed, the user may graphically navigate over the chart to obtain more detailed information, and the like. Once the user has completed interacting with the temporarily formatted and created chart(s) the visualizations are removed from the display.

Temporary formatting and charting of selected data

Tools and techniques are described for linking visual properties of charts to cells within tables. Methods provided by these tools enable users to select visual properties that are associated with graphical displays of chart data, and to link these visual properties to respective cells within the tables. User interfaces provided by these tools may provide representations of visual properties associated with the graphical displays of chart data, with these representations of the visual properties being responsive to user input to link the cells in the tables to the visual properties. These user interfaces may also include representations of the cells that are associated with the representations of the visual properties.

Linking visual properties of charts to cells within tables

A sparkline is associated with a location in a document to provide a visual representation of one or more data values included in the document. The sparkline is associated with a data source within the document including the one or more data values. The sparkline is generated by generating the visual representation based on the one or more data values with a matrix of points to be presented at the associated location in the document. The sparkline is presented at the associated location in the document. The sparkline is configured to be regenerated when one or more of the data values in the data source change.

Graphically displaying selected data sources within a grid

Three dimensional, conditional formatting based data visualization is provided. Received underlying data may be analyzed and one or more portions of the underlying data that are of interest to a user determined. The portions may be selected actively by a user of automatically determined based on a variation of values in each portion, values of data points in each portion, a usage history of the user, and/or a credential of the user. A background image may be generated by converting the tabular data into a three dimensional image or selecting and image or a graphic associated with the underlying data. The visualization(s) may then be displayed over the background. Scenes may be selected for animated slide shows or movies.

Three dimensional conditional formatting

Data point calculations on a chart are provided. A user control may be displayed adjacent to a chart by a computing device. A selection of data points on the chart may then be received the user control. A calculation may then be performed by the computing device on the data points selected by the user control. The results of the calculation may then be displayed by the computing device on the chart.

Data point calculations on a chart

A platform extensibility framework may be provided. A visualization platform may register feature extensions and receive requests to create objects. The objects may be created according to drawing instructions provided by the visualization platform, an application requesting the object's creation, and/or at least one of the feature extensions.

Platform extensibility framework

A system facilitates dynamic data visualizations. The system includes an analysis component that periodically processes one or more incoming data streams to determine a visualization form from a plurality of visualization forms. A visualization component dynamically generates the visualization form based in part on the processing of the incoming data streams.

Visualization of streaming real-time data

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can support a declarative model-based approach to designing, constructing, and rendering visualizations. By complying with a declarative descriptor, components can be readily customized by way of modifications to the model&#x2014;declaratively specifying suitable features, behaviors, appearances and so forth. The descriptors that conform to the model can also facilitate connecting to various data sources and performing data transformation operations. Moreover, the descriptors that conform to the model can declaratively specify relationships based upon a scene layout. Accordingly, the architecture can further describe the scene layout and provide features based upon the layout.

Declarative approach for visualization

Data visualization platform optimization may be provided. Applications may provide data values and request creation of a visualization from a data visualization platform (DVP). The DVP may composite a plurality of geometry records associated with a subset of the visualization's data values. The application may render the visualization by iterating through the geometry vectors and translating a subset of the vectors into drawing instructions for output to a display device.

Data visualization platform performance optimization

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