Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sirqul, Inc.

Darren Glenn Austin

Robert Frederick

Justin Jaewook Yu

Justin Arruda

Wei W Wang

Gareth Alun Jones

Ankit Srivastava

Wendy Guo

Leanna Holly Robb

Jay Ongg

Fanguang Kong

Vivek Chauhan

Jinkai Zhang

Rahee Ghosh

Guy Daher

Chi Huang

Kiky Wibowo Tangerine

Justin Joseph Fagnan

Danny Lee Fraser

Yanir Shahak

Mun Ying Leong

Jorge Eugenio Aguirre Gonzalez

The disclosure herein describes an emotional insight management system that provides user-configured prompts and insights to the user. In some examples, an insights application provides personalized, recurring prompts to encourage users to provide current emotional state updates to a well-being journal. The user's responses over time are aggregated within a historical trends report, which provides emotional response data over time. The insights application generates insights into potential reasons for the user's emotional states on a given day. The system analyzes the user-provided emotion response data with integrated work-related data to identify reasons for the user's mood and make recommendations for actions to be taken by users to reduce stress and improve the user's emotional well-being.

Emotional management system

Freeform input is not native to several application or document types, but is desired by users as an input mode, especially for collaboration. Systems and methods are therefore provided to enable the insertion of an electronic collaboration workspace that accepts and stores freeform input for use as an object embeddable in various documents. An external host application provides the functionalities needed for freeform input, and the inputs may be committed to the document or stored as a separate document which may be referenced and accessed by multiple users for purposes of collaboration.

Web-based embeddable collaborative workspace

Techniques are described for providing functionality to users of mobile devices, including coordinating the inter-connection of multiple mobile devices, such as for multiple mobile devices of multiple distinct types, and optionally using multiple different types of inter-connections. In some situations, the described techniques include performing matchmaking operations to determine whether and/or how a group of multiple inter-connected mobile devices will provide functionality to each other and/or will access functionality from one or more remote server computing systems, including to select a host mobile device for the group. In addition, in some situations, the described techniques include providing a distributed display canvas functionality, by using the displays of multiple inter-connected mobile devices of a group to display some or all of the graphical user interface ('GUI') of an application, such as by displaying on each mobile device a distinct portion of the GUI specific to that mobile device.

Providing distributed managed communications functionality via multiple mobile devices

Distributed display functionality on multiple mobile devices

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Darren Glenn Austin