Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Eric Randall Sexauer

Jason Thomas Faulkner

Ewin Davis Kannuthottiyil

Shalendra Chhabra

Kevin D Morrison

Amey Parandekar

Dominic Roedel

Raymond Edward Ozzie

George P Moromisato

Noah Benjamin Edelstein

Russell P Songco

Philipp Steinacher

Edward Sean Lloyd Rintel

Thaddeus Adam Scott

Kenton O'Hara

Anthony Arnold Wieser

Robert Corish

The techniques disclosed herein provide a system that generates a summary for a communication session. A topic for a summary can be selected in response to detection of a high priority source of information. For instance, if a user's manager makes a comment during a meeting, that comment can be interpreted and selected as a topic for a summary. The system can select such content based on a user's relationship with a source. Information provided by teammates or a manager or other entities having a threshold level of relevancy can be indicated as a high-priority topic for a summary. The system improves the user's interaction with a computer by providing an adaptable summaries of information. The adaptable summaries allow users to readily identify topics, content sources, and high-priority content for meetings.

Dynamically generated summaries with adaptive associations between participants of a communication session

A system provides a notification associated with joining a communication session based on trigger events that occur at a time other than a scheduled start time for the communication session. For example, the notification informs a user who organizes the communication session of a predefined join event that occurs when another user joins the communication session. The predefined join event may occur at a time that is different than a scheduled start time (e.g., before the scheduled start time). Moreover, the notification can include an embedded control that, when activated by the organizing user, causes a device of the organizing user to transmit a join request to join the device to the communication session.

Displaying notifications for starting a session at a time that is different than a scheduled start time

The techniques disclosed herein improve existing systems by providing a system that automatically generates a scalable summary with adaptable graphical associations between people and content. The system can select a level of detail that can be applied to a process for generating a summary of content. The level of detail can be based on a user's engagement with respect to one or more events. The system can improve the usability of the summary by selecting a level of detail that is optimized for the user's contextual status. The system also improves the user's interaction with a computer by providing an adaptable layout of information indicating a source of content. The adaptable layout allows users to readily identify topics, content sources, and high-priority summary sections regardless of the level of detail that is selected for the summary.

Dynamically scalable summaries with adaptive graphical associations between people and content

The techniques disclosed herein improve existing systems by automatically identifying tasks from a number of different types of user activity and providing suggestions for the tasks to one or more selected delivery mechanisms. A system compiles the tasks and pushes each task to a personalized task list of a user. The delivery of each task may be based on any suitable user activity, which may include communication between one or more users or a user's interaction with a particular file or a system. The system can identify timelines, performance parameters, and other related contextual data associated with the task. The system can identify a delivery schedule for the task to optimize the effectiveness of the delivery of the task. The system can also provide smart notifications. When a task conflicts with a person's calendar, the system can resolve scheduling conflicts based on priorities of a calendar event.

Adaptive task communication based on automated learning and contextual analysis of user activity

A system provides a notification associated with joining a communication session based on trigger events other than a scheduled start time for the communication session. The notification informs the recipient user of current contextual information associated with the communication session and to provide the user with an effective and efficient way to join the communication session (a.k.a., the meeting). The contextual information may indicate that some other user has initiated the communication session (e.g., is the first to join the communication session), that a predefined user has joined the communication session (e.g., a user's manager has joined), and/or that a topic of interest has been brought up during the communication session (e.g., one or more users start speaking about the topic). As described herein, the notification(s) can be provided based on occurrences of different types of events that occur at times that are different than a scheduled start time.

A representation of a calendar view is rendered on a user interface (UI), the calendar view indicative of one or more calendar days comprising a time span including a plurality of sequential time slots. A representation of a calendar event is rendered that is indicative of a scheduled meeting in at least one of the sequential time slots. The scheduled meeting is rendered without an icon or button operative to provide an interactive control to join the scheduled meeting. In response to determining that a scheduled meeting has started, the representation is updated by adding a status indication that is indicative of a current status of the scheduled meeting. The current status is provided without joining the scheduled meeting.

Live meeting information in a calendar view

A representation of a calendar view is rendered on a user interface (UI). The calendar view is indicative of one or more calendar days comprising a time span including a plurality of sequential time slots. A representation of a scheduled meeting is rendered in at least one of the sequential time slots. The scheduled meeting is rendered without an icon or button operative to provide an interactive control to join the scheduled meeting. In response to determining that the scheduled meeting has started, the representation of the scheduled meeting is converted to a live meeting object and the representation of the scheduled meeting is replaced with the converted live meeting object. The live meeting object renders a live video or audio output of the scheduled meeting.

Live meeting object in a calendar view

The present disclosure provides a number of techniques for enhancing a user's experience when joining teleconference sessions. When multiple users join a teleconference session using separate devices, a system identifies devices that are co-located. The co-located devices are identified by the use of a combination of data including, but not limited to social signals, audio signal and other location data. At least one device of the co-located devices, has a first control set for controlling a teleconference session and other devices of the co-located devices have a second control set for sharing content. The at least one device also has one set of streams and the other devices see a subset of those streams or other streams based on an activity level. In addition, the present disclosure provides a number of techniques for enabling users to use multiple devices to share content.

Enhanced techniques for joining communication sessions

Techniques performed by a data processing system for conducting a communication session between a plurality of computing devices of a plurality of participants herein include establishing a communication session between a plurality of computing devices of a plurality of participants in which media content associated with the communication session is provided to each of the computing devices of the plurality of participants, receiving, via a network connection, a first media stream from the computing device of a first participant that includes a rendering of a first content item to be shared with the plurality of participants, performing image analysis on pixel data of the first media steam to identify features of the first content item, identifying a first file associated with the first content item based on the features of the first content item, and providing access to the participants to the first file associated with the first content item.

Content recognition while screen sharing

The techniques provided herein improve existing systems by automatically generating summaries of a document in response to a user input that defines selected segments of a document. The document can include any type of content such as, but not limited to, channel conversations, chat threads, transcripts, word processing documents, spreadsheets, etc. As the user indicates a selection of segments, a system can dynamically update a summary of the segments to inform a user of salient information that is shared in the selected segments. A summary can include a text description of the information having a threshold priority level. A system can analyze documents that are referenced within the selected segments and provide summaries of the documents. The techniques disclosed herein also provide a number of graphical elements that communicate additional context of each part of the summary.

Intelligent summaries based on automated learning and contextual analysis of a user input

Intelligent task suggestions based on automated learning and contextual analysis of user activity

The techniques disclosed herein provide a notification to a user that has been invited to participate in a communication session (e.g., a virtual meeting such as a video conference). The notification informs the user of contextual information associated with a meeting and provides a mechanism for the user to efficiently join the meeting. The notification can be provided based on different types of join events signaling that the meeting may be able to start. One type of join event can occur when the first person joins the meeting. Other types of join events can occur when an organizer of the meeting joins the meeting, when a required attendee is the first required attendee to join the meeting, when an external user is the first external user to join the meeting, or when a representative from each of a plurality of different stakeholder groups has joined the meeting.

A calendar view is rendered on a user interface (UI). A scheduled meeting is rendered in a time slot of the calendar view, initially without an interactive control to join the scheduled meeting. In response to determining that a start time for the scheduled meeting is within a threshold time, the rendered scheduled meeting is updated to include an interactive control to join the scheduled meeting. The interactive control has a selectable region that is configured to indicate that the scheduled meeting is to be joined. In response to input data indicative of a selection of the interactive control, a collaboration application joins the scheduled meeting.

A calendar view is rendered on a user interface (UI). A scheduled meeting in a time slot of the calendar view, initially without an interactive control to join the scheduled meeting. In response to determining that a start time for the scheduled meeting is within a threshold time, the representation of the scheduled meeting is converted to a live meeting object within the calendar view.

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Eric Randall Sexauer