Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Cindy Kwan

Amit Gupta

Jaime J Hwacinski

Clea H Allington

Ian Dwyer Curry

Sean O Lyndersay

Jane T Kim

Bruce Alan Morgan

Amar S Gandhi

Joseph T Flint

Poonam Ganesh Hattangady

Walter V Von Koch

Edward J Praitis

William Gould

Joan Li

Eva Britta Karolina Burlin

Justin Son Pae

Andrew Winslow Brough

Anna Aleksandrovna Pablo

Flora M Lee

Spencer K Nelson

Selvaraj Nalliah

Shahil Soni

Amritansh Raghav

Rui Liang

Ye Tian

Avronil Bhattacharjee

Nikhil P Bobde

Setty Venkateshaiah

Naresh Sundaram

Johannes Gehrke

Ryan Thomas Murphy

Jason Andrew Cook

Imran Masud

Sangya Singh

Santosh Kumar

Giselli Panontini DeSouza Sana

Skye Lee Pazuchanics

Teslim Abiodun Alabi

Abhishek Arun

Kevin Timothy Moynihan

Boyd Hays

Eva Britta Ka Burlin

Alisson Teixeira

Victoria Mbabazi

Dejun Zhou

Chu Liu

A method performed by a computing system includes generating a to-do list user interface comprising a user actuatable list element corresponding to a particular entry on a to-do list associated with a user, and a user input mechanism actuatable to perform a to-do list management function comprising at least one of adding a new entry on the to-do list, deleting an existing entry on the to-do list, and modifying an existing entry on the to-do list. The method includes generating an agenda associated with the user, the agenda comprising an agenda item having an associated time period, and detecting a flick gesture on the user actuatable list element on the to-do list user interface, and adding, based on the detected flick gesture, an agenda item to the agenda associated with the user, the added agenda item corresponding to the particular entry on the to-do list.

User interface driven movement of data

Systems, methods, and software technology for enhancing calendars of interest is disclosed herein. In an implementation, a calendar of interest is added to an online calendar. The calendar of interest comprises a schedule of events and a rule set for adjusting the schedule of events. As the events occur in the online calendar, a record of participation by a user with respect to the events is identified. After each event has occurred, a determination is made whether to make an adjustment to the schedule of events based at least on the rule set for the calendar of interest and the record of participation by the user after the event. If so, the schedule of events is updated in the online calendar to reflect any adjustments.

Adjusting calendars of interest on a per-user basis

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for surfacing and interacting with electronic meeting insights are presented. A meeting request that includes a plurality of invitees may be received. The meeting request may be associated with a plurality of related documents based on one or more attributes and a meeting insight related to the related documents may be surfaced. The meeting request may have a low acceptance in relation to a threshold and a corresponding insight may be surfaced to reschedule the meeting. A user may send a time modification suggestion to the meeting organizer and a rescheduling insight may be surfaced. Time and location information corresponding to invitees and the meeting time may be analyzed and reminders may be surfaced for each of the invitees in relation to a meeting location. Attendees may interact with location-based insights to have directions to a meeting surfaced.

Intelligent meeting insights

A server system suitable for generating calendar events based on guided hints is provided. The server system receives, from a device of a first user, an indication to create a calendar event. The server system derives, using natural language processing, guided hints for information for the calendar event, and causes presentation of the guided hints on a user interface displayed on the device of the first user. The server system receives the information in response to the guided hints presented on the device of the first user, and generates the calendar event based on the information.

Natural language event

A to-do list management system surfaces a user interface with a user input mechanism that displays a user actuatable element for each item on a user's to-do list. It senses a flick gesture and automatically moves a to-do list item to the user's agenda. It can also sense a user input gesture and automatically remove an agenda item from the user's agenda, and place it on the user's to-do list.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing grouped data of interest. In some configurations, a computing device can include a user interface with one or more groups configured to receive messages. The groups can be computer-defined groups, such as by the computing device or other system, or user-defined groups. Techniques and technologies described herein receive a message in the one or more groups, and determine a message relevance (e.g., utility) based on the content and/or context (e.g., time of day, sender, geo-location of recipient, message urgency, etc.) of the message. In some configurations, the message relevance can be based, at least in part, on the particular group or a cluster of groups to which the message is associated.

Message grouping and relevance

Communication services enable two or more users to communicate electronically using multiple modes of communication. Conversations between groups of users are common, where one or more communications may be exchanged repeatedly over a period of time. In some scenarios, a communication desired to be conveyed by a participant in a conversation may be a simple endorsement, such as receipt acknowledgment and various levels of social activity actions and/or gestures, which may be useful for other participants of the conversation to see as well. Provision of endorsement indications in communication environments may enable the participant to select an endorsement for a communication or a conversation without explicitly replying to the communication or conversation, where an endorsement indication based on the selected endorsement may be transmitted and displayed to the other participants of the conversation through an endorsement module of the communication service.

Endorsement indications in communication environments

A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like.

Content syndication platform

Contacts lists are dynamically managed in association with communication and collaboration applications and devices. Automated and user defined factors are determined based on information from various resources such as user profile, contact information, past communication information, application/device types, and comparable ones. Factors may be weighted and employed to prioritize contacts lists under different circumstances. Prioritized contacts lists may be provided to a user, stored, updated, or otherwise processed.

Dynamic contacts list management

Merger and duplicate resolution for contact information across platforms is managed employing contact objects and aggregating the contact objects into contact models. Contact data from internal and/or external data stores may be retrieved and contact objects created for each contact from each contact store. A contact model for each contact entity may be created by aggregating contact data from contact objects across the contact stores. The aggregation may include duplicate resolution through weighting of communication system types, ranking of contact information type, and similar approaches. The contact models may be dynamically updated based on changes to the contact objects.

Contact information merger and duplicate resolution

A contacts list for a subscriber is pre-populated based on information received from various data stores, data mining of applications associated with the subscriber, and administrator defined contacts. The list may be further maintained dynamically based on changes to contact information and/or subscriber attributes.

Pre-populated and administrator defined groups in contacts lists

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