Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

David Jon Conger

Michael J McCormack

Andrew Robert Miller

Allison Jane Rutherford

Scott Timothy Gardner

Michael Taron

Sumit Chauhan

Jason A Bould

Eric B Thompson

Nadja Ayodele Rhodes

Vijay Mital

Suraj T Poozhiyil

Steven Miles Greenberg

Gregory Scott Lindhorst

Shen Wang

Jason Glenn Silvis

Robert Coggins

Ryan Christopher McMinn

Robert Scott Cooper

Kumar Srinivasamurthy

Michael Hopkins Smith

Abdullah Rubiyath

Fnu Primadona

Eric Anderson

Simon Wai-Han Chan

Robert E Coggins

Keith John Symons

Ayuba Audu

Iman Abdullahi Yusuf

Michael Eugene Taron

Eric Boone Thompson

A device for generating archival notes for a user based on content a user has located electronically and viewed on a display device includes: a display for presenting information to a user, a user interface for receiving user input from the user; a processor; and a memory storing executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor, alone or in combination with other processors, to perform the following: capturing information on the display; operating a prompt generator to structure a prompt for a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, the prompt based on the information captured from the display and causing the AI model to generate a note based on the information captured; and storing the note in a user data structure for future reference by the user.

Intelligent capturing of user-viewed content for note keeping

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for presenting sensitive information in accordance with a level of concealment. In an implementation, an object is identified comprising text that includes sensitive information. A contextual privacy setting for the sensitive information and a context surrounding a presentation of the object is then identified. Based on the contextual privacy setting and the context surrounding the presentation of the object, a level of concealment for the sensitive information in the text is determined. The object comprising the text is then presented, wherein the sensitive information included in the text is revealed in accordance with the level of concealment.

Concealing sensitive information in text

A thumbnail preview of a file enables a user to recognize the file without opening it. An algorithmic approach to generating simulated thumbnail previews is provided. This approach includes executing rules for determining and implementing one or more rendering schemas to simulate different content types within a portion of a file. A simulated thumbnail preview is generated from the simulated content types based on a file structure. Since users may rely on the general structure and distinguishing content elements of a thumbnail for recognizing a file, these distinguishing elements are maintained based on different rendering schemas used to create a simulated thumbnail. Moreover, the algorithmic approach promotes consistent simulated thumbnails across clients, regardless of client processing capabilities, form factors, customized theming, or the like. Based on the rules for rendering various content types, the simulated thumbnails are also consistently generated across documents.

Simulated thumbnail previews for files

A personalized contextual connection management system can identify and store contextual connections for shared items associated with particular users of a multi-user system, for example, in response to requests associated with certain tasks to user services in which a shared item is referenced. When a particular user requests to view the shared item, the personalized contextual connection management system obtains that user's personalized context including the contextual connections associated with that user for that shared item and provides that user's personalized context for display with the shared item.

Personalized contextual connection of items in a multi-user system

Systems and methods for creating and updating digital notes. One system includes an electronic processor configured to receive an electronic message from a user to an electronic messaging address, the electronic message including content and determine whether the electronic messaging address is associated with the user. In response to the electronic messaging address being associated with the user, the electronic processor is configured to automatically create a digital note including at least a portion of the content included in the electronic message. The electronic processor is also configured to receive a reply to the electronic message from the user and automatically update the digital note based on the reply.

Creating and updating digital notes via electronic messages

Embodiments are provided for creating and reusing custom data types in a database. A selection of a field or group of fields may be received from a database table in the database by a database software application executing on a computer system. Each selected field may include a set of field properties. The application may further receive a user input to initiate saving the selected field or group of fields as a custom data type. In response to receiving the input, the application may be configured to generate a dialog for receiving custom data type information for the selected field or group of fields and save the selected field or group of fields as a custom data type. The custom data type may then be reused by the application in the database.

Database data type creation and reuse

An application module generates a query that may involve retrieving data from a local data storage source or from an external data storage source. The application module retrieves metadata to form a query tree stored in the local data storage source and uses the query tree to ascertain one or more sub-queries necessary to complete the query and whether the necessary data for each sub-query is stored locally or externally. Based on the location of the data to complete a sub-query, the application module uses the services of an internal query processing layer if external data is involved for the sub-query. The application module uses the services of a query processing layer in the local data storage source if the data is local. Once all the sub-queries associated with the query tree are performed, then the overall query results are returned to the application module.

Dynamic query for external data connections

Embodiments are provided to merge, manage, create, and reuse database parts in a computer system. Database parts may include database tables, datatypes, field combinations or entire databases. A selection of a database part is received by a database software application executing on a computer system. The application may be configured to check for metadata associated with the database part to identify an action property. If, after checking for the metadata, a merge action property is identified, then the application may check for a metadata property associated with a database table. If a merge action associated with the database table is identified, then the application may merge the database part with the database table in the database. The application may also be configured to generate a user interface for creating database parts using database tables and for creating a database part by saving a database.

Database part creation, merge and reuse

Embodiments provide a distributed file fuzzing environment. In an embodiment, a number of computing devices can be used as part of a distributing fuzzing system. Fuzzing operations can be distributed to the number of computing devices and processed accordingly. A group or team can be defined to process particular fuzzing operations that may be best suited to the group. The time required to perform a fuzzing operation can be reduced by distributing the fuzzing work to the number of computing devices. A client can be associated with each computing device and used in conjunction with fuzzing operations.

Distributed file fuzzing

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David Jon Conger