Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Daniel Fairweather

Robert L Rounthwaite

Geoffrey John Hulten

Bernhard Kohlmeier

Tomasz Lukasz Religa

Madeline Schuster Kleiner

Jignesh Shah

Vincent Etter

Pankaj Gaur

A method and system for providing a personalized user interface and personalized search suggestions when using an application is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request for providing a personalized user interface such as a personalized menu for an application and examining a history of the user's usage of the application, a history of other user's usage of the application, and/or the content of the current document in the application, before identifying one or more suggested options offered by the application based on one or more of these factors. A list may then be generated and provided for being displayed as part of the personalized user interface. Upon receiving an indication of a user's intent to perform a search within the application, the user's usage history, usage history of users with similar activities, and/or content of the current document may be examined to provide the user with a list of search suggestions.

Personalized user experience and search-based recommendations

An insertion feature is provided with a clipboard manager application. The clipboard manager application initiates operations to provide the insertion feature upon detecting a copy operation. In response, an item associated with the copy operation is stored. Next, a paste input is intercepted. A sample content of the item is rendered in a clipboard user interface (UI) for a selection. Upon detecting the item as selected, the item is inserted into a previously active application.

Providing insertion feature with clipboard manager application

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Daniel Fairweather