Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Douglas Maxwell Taylor

Bernhard S J Kohlmeier

Pradeep Chilakamarri

Victor Poznanski

Julianne Marie Emmons

Robert Andrew Little

Ali Taleghani

Ruth Kikin-Gil

Chenguang Yang

James Squires Masson

Seth Fox

Nathaniel George Freier

Robin Emily Wakefield

Yibing Zhu

Robyn Sambo

Michael Gary Heyns

Georges Krinker

Mandy Kathleen Meyers

Randi Scheinblum Ryan

Farid Kadyrov

Jim Masson

Author-created digital agents and content corpora for electronic documents are described. A content corpora service can include application programming interfaces such as for adding content to a corpus, attaching a corpus to a document, retrieving corpora associated with an author, and searching content of a corpus. An author-created digital agent can receive a request from a consumer of a document, determine corpora associated with the document, formulate a query based on the request, and search content associated with the corpora associated with the document.

Content corpora for electronic documents

A computer system receives data identifying data fields used by sources of data and infrastructure information. The computer system maintains a storage state database to track information about the data fields. The computer system provides a graphical user interface through which a user can create, view, modify, and delete data defining classes and rules associated with classes. The computer system applies the rules to classify the data fields. The computer system provides a graphical user interface through which the classification of the data fields can be visualized in the context of infrastructure information for the sources of data.

Monitoring organization-wide state and classification of data stored in disparate data sources of an organization

Systems and methods are provided for identifying and managing trusted sources in online and networked content. URLs and other objects are vetted and identified as trusted sources based on the documents in which these objects are used or otherwise acted upon and not on the content of the URLs or other objects themselves. When a URL or other object is used in a document, the URL is given a score based on the use activity, attributes of the document itself, and, optionally, user history of the user. As users use that same URL with respect to their documents, the scores from those activities are accrued to that URL. A URL with an accrued score (value) above (or equal to) a threshold value can be added to a corpus of trusted sources that can be accessed when conducting research and/or by other applications and search engines.

Identifying and managing trusted sources in online and networked content for professional knowledge exchange

A research application and service are provided. The research application can be a mobile application, a feature within a word processing software, or an extension of a web-browsing software, through which a user can indicate a subject of research or assignment and receive a list of research topics from which credible research sources can be searched. The user can be assigned to a group identifier that identifies a group of users that can collaborate on a research project. Research sources selected and collected by the user can be stored associated with the group identifier such that members of the group can see and use those selected sources. In some cases, users can tag a selected source with another user's identifier so that the selected source can be saved in that other user's collection.

Research application and service

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for indicating a change to content in a document to a user. A document is displayed in a user interface to an application. Content then is introduced into the document from a source external to the document. After the content has been introduced into the document, the source of the content is queried for any changes to the content at the source. If a change has occurred, an indication of the change to the content at the source is introduced in the document.

Displaying an indication of changes made to content at a source

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided that provide functionality of accessing, ranking, scoping, enrichment, cleansing, and cohort determination of content based on a corpus of trusted sources. For example, in response to receiving a request for ranked objects via a ranking API, a system can obtain objects from a corpus identified by the request for ranked objects and a corresponding rank and/or score of each of the objects and provide the objects and the corresponding rank and/or score of each of the objects to a source of the request for ranked objects, wherein the corpus stores identified trusted sources that are scored based at least on a document activity score.

Application programming interfaces for identifying, using, and managing trusted sources in online and networked content

A research application and service are provided. The research application can be a mobile application, a feature within a word processing software, or an extension of a web-browsing software, through which a user can indicate a subject of research or assignment and receive a list of research topics from which credible research sources can be searched. The application is used to browse research sources and select particular ones to a collection. The application sends the data regarding selected research sources to be stored and accessed later via the research service. When a user is subsequently in a productivity application/authoring canvas, the productivity application can access the data collected by the user. Feedback on what, if any, research sources are included in an authoring canvas is used by the research service to modify the research sources presented by the research application when the topic is next selected by that or other users.

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Douglas Maxwell Taylor