Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Dean J Hachamovitch

Antony S Williams

Ronald A Fein

Edward A Martinez

Anthony T Chor

William J Bliss

David Charles Tuniman

Steven James Rayson

Mara B Patton

Andrew L Kwatinetz

Anantha P Ganjam

Andrew S Zeigler

Edward J Fries

Stephen M Hirsch

David C Franklin

Michael Walfish

Jessica A Hitchcock

Various embodiments enable detection of third party content sources that may pose a privacy risk to a user. In at least some embodiments, webpages navigated to via a browser can be processed to identify third party content sources that provide content for the webpages. Data may be stored to relate the third party content sources to webpages in which the third party content is encountered. The data may then be analyzed to determine when a particular third party is in a position to observe browsing habits of a user. Responsive to determining a privacy risk, notification may be output in a variety of ways to inform a user of potentially risky content. In at least some other embodiments, notification can be made by way of a user interface instrumentality that is automatically presented to a user to inform the user of a potentially risky third party content source.

Web page privacy risk detection

A word completion system that can automatically predict unrestricted word completions for data entries in an unstructured portion of a data file. The word completion system applies prediction criteria to avoid annoying the user by displaying an excessive number of wrong suggestions. Suggested word completions, which may change as the user types a partial data entry, are displayed in a non-disruptive manner and selected using traditional acceptance keystrokes, such as the &ldquo;tab&rdquo; key or the &ldquo;enter&rdquo; key. The word completion system may be deployed on an individual application program basis or on a application-independent basis. Because different word suggestion lists may be appropriate for different application programs, and for different data files created with the same application program, the word completion system allows the user to select one or more suggestion lists for use with each data file. A user interface allows the user to customize each suggestion list on an on-going basis. Each suggestion list may contain dynamic word completions that are tied to dynamic parameters maintained by the computer system, such as the time, date, registered user, and so forth. Each suggestion list may also be tied to contextual information, such as structured data fields or context labels assigned manually or by a document-creation aid known as a &ldquo;wizard.&rdquo;

Automatic word completion system for partially entered data

Automatically detecting a misspelled word and replacing the misspelled word with a correctly spelled word. Words are automatically spell checked as delimited. If a word is detected as a misspelled word then a correctly spelled alternate word is generated. The misspelled word and the correctly spelled alternate word are compared according to a set of difference criteria. The difference criteria correspond to common types of misspellings. If the misspelled word and the correctly spelled alternate word differ according to a difference criterion then the correctly spelled alternate word is identified as a replacement candidate word. The results of the difference criteria comparisons are reviewed using a set of selection criteria. If the results of the difference criteria comparisons satisfy the selection criteria then one of the replacement candidate words is correctly spelled as a replacement word and the misspelled word is replaced by the replacement word.

System and method for automatically correcting a misspelled word

A screen saver program is provided within a computer system. The screen saver program includes a note facility for generating notes. The notes facility includes a note-taker interface. The screen saver program is run on the computer system and in response to receiving input from a user, the note-taker interface is displayed on a video display of the computer system. In response to input by the user via the note-taker interface, a note is created. Subsequently, the screen saver program is dismissed and the note is displayed on the video display when the screen saver is dismissed.

Notes facility for receiving notes while the computer system is in a

A method and word processing system for automatically replacing one or more characters of text entered by a user in a word processing document with the corresponding plain text, formatted text, or other object. The user can select among a plurality of predefined autocorrect options in an Autocorrect dialog box that is displayed when the autocorrect function is selected from the menu or toolbar of the word processing system. These options include changing straight quotes to smart quotes, correcting words that begin with two initial upper case letters so that only the first letter is upper case, capitalizing the first letter of any sentence that is not capitalized, capitalizing the names of the days of the week if not already capitalized, and replacing text entered by the user with either plain text, formatted text, a graphic picture, or other type of object. Using the autocorrect function, the user can automatically correct commonly misspelled words, and automatically expand relatively short groups of characters to longer words, paragraphs, or graphic objects. Each character or string of characters that is to be replaced is associated with a 'definition' entered as plain text, formatted text, or as an object. The entry is added to an autocorrect list displayed to the user in the Autocorrect dialog box. Any entry in the autocorrect list can also be deleted or changed by the user. A second embodiment makes an intelligent decision concerning autocorrection of text, based upon the time interval between keyboard events.

Autocorrecting text typed into a word processing document

A method and system for generating and maintaining property sets is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a property set stream is generated. The stream comprises three parts: a header, a section locator array, and one or more sections. The header contains information for uniquely identifying the property set and for identifying the number of sections within the property set. The section locator array contains a unique identifier for each section and an offset indicating where the section resides within the stream. The third part, the section definitions, contains the information necessary to maintain groups of properties for each section. Each section contains a section header, a property locator array, and an array of property type/value pairs. The section header indicates both the size of the section and the number of properties defined within the section. The property locator array contains unique property identifiers for each property defined in the section and a relative offset, from the beginning of the section, to the property definition. Each property definition appears as a type/value pair, the type indicator indicating the data format for the property and the value field containing or referencing the data. In a preferred embodiment, a property set is generated by allocating appropriate storage and by storing values in the standard structure for a property set.

Method and system for generating and maintaining property sets with

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Dean J Hachamovitch