Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Cyrus R Balsara

Jason A Bould

Mark H Lucovsky

Suraj T Poozhiyil

Richard Shawn McDowell

Andrew Robert Miller

Gregory Scott Lindhorst

Neil Warren Black

Gay Lynn Gilmore

Jianlan Song

Paul D Bishop

Debbie Lynn Cargile

Michael Elton Hewitt

Sean Edward Purcell

Kevin Kahl

A received reply email document enables some action to be effectuated using data included in the email document responsive to field identifiers associated with the data and corresponding to fields of metadata. The associated field identifiers that correspond to known fields of the metadata provide some expectation as to the semantic meaning and/or syntactic constraints of the data to which the field identifiers are associated. In a described implementation, an actionable email documents module creates an email document having blocks that are mapped to fields of metadata. The email document is transmitted to one or more recipients. Each recipient adds data to the blocks so that the data becomes mapped to the fields of the metadata. The recipients return a reply email document having the field-mapped data. Upon receipt, the module can effectuate some action using the field-mapped data responsive to the mappings.

Actionable email documents

A rich client view of server data is integrated within a server presentation of data provided by a portal server application. The rich client view of data is included with other web based views provided according to the server presentation of data when the rich client view is created. The rich client view is integrated among the web based views such that the rich client view and web based views are organized together. A separate application is launched to render the rich client view in response to a selection to render the rich client view. The selection to render the rich client view is integrated within the server presentation of data such that rich client view is provided seamlessly within the server presentation.

Integration rich client views in server presentations

A dynamic summary view is generated by defining an HTML page that links data binding HTML tables and other HTML controls to predetermined data within a storage of data. For each type of data, a parameter is determined which characterizes the predetermined data from the other data within the storage. A control module related to a specific type of data, searches the storage, determines the predetermined data using the parameter and displays the predetermined data via a data binding HTML table within a section of the dynamic summary view. Upon detecting a manipulation request, such as when a user clicks a button of the mouse, the appropriate control module accesses a subset of the program module that created the predetermined data. This is advantageously done without invoking the entire program module. A subset of the program module can be accessed by executing a script to call defined methods of objects within the program module. A subset of the program module also can be accessed by calling a control module defined within the program module. The view is also dynamic in that it is updated to display 'live' data by monitoring for trigger events indicating the underlying data has changed and updating the predetermined data accordingly.

System and method for displaying and manipulating user-relevant data

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Cyrus R Balsara