Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Felix G T I Andrew

David Anthony Sobeski

David Mowatt

Ian Michael Ellison-Taylor

Robert L Chambers

Zeke Koch

Michael D Smith

Mark S Carroll

Andi Fabian Rusu

Christopher David Brown

Justin Michael Maguire

Aaron Michael Butcher

Jeff West

John David Colleran

Geoffrey T Ebersol

Patrick Michael Halvorsen

Benjamin D Kelly

Joseph H Matthews, Iii

Michael C Fanning

J Andrew Goossen

Dominique Fortier

Shawn Michael Brown

Alex G Snitkovskiy

Yutaka Suzue

Kevin Blaine Gjerstad

Oliver Scholz

Scott Andrew Borton

Matthew Brigham Hall

Chad M Whitney

Kenneth A Showman

Gary Linscott

Suzan Andrew

Eric Youngstrom

Evgeny Ivanovich Tvorun

Lisa G Post

Cecil J Juanarena

Robert Edward Dewar

Anson Ho

Justin M Maquire, Iii

Kate Seekings

Kjel Benjamin Larsen

Harm Lambertus Lamberts

Examples relate to systems and methods for restoring threads including context of the threads outside of a chat interface. During a thread including multiple queries and responses, one or more of the responses may include links to web pages and/or to other applications (e.g., presentation applications, word-processing applications). During interactions with the thread, one or more of the links may be selected. The selection of the links causes the corresponding web pages to be loaded and/or the corresponding applications to be launched. The web pages that are opened and/or the applications that are launched during an ongoing thread are stored as thread data for the ongoing thread. Then, when the thread is resumed at a later time, not only is the chat interface populated with the prior queries and responses of the thread, but the web pages and/or applications are also restored.

Threading chats with application activity

Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for spoiler prevention. Media consumption applications may be placed in 'spoiler-free' mode, for example, to prevent media content from spoiling first-hand user experience. A user may provide and/or authorize access to and use of spoiler prevention information. A user may request media content (e.g., while surfing the Internet). Digital media content to be presented to a user may be searched in real-time and/or pre-searched for spoiler content and/or associated spoiler indications relative to spoiler prevention information. Identified spoiler content may be concealed from users. A procedure may be provided for users to determine one or more reasons why content is concealed, to selectively reveal concealed content, and to provide feedback whether concealed content was or was not spoiler content for a user. Feedback may be used to improve spoiler prevention, for example, by retraining a machine learning model, which may be user-specific.

Spoiler prevention

Entities such as hotels, restaurants, resorts, houses, vehicles, and other places and things, are associated with images of each entity. The images are tagged using machine learning to identify what aspects of the associated entity are captured by each image. When a user is requested to select an entity from a set of entities, a user preference model is used to determine what tags the user is interested in. The tags are used to select images associated with the entities from the set of entities, and the selected images are displayed to the user. The user can then provide indicators that show which of the displayed images the user likes or dislikes. Based on the indicators, one or more entities from the set of entities is presented to the user. The model may also be updated based on the indicators.

System and method for recommending entities based on interest indicators

A computing system includes at least one processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the computing system to receive an indication of a set of grammar commands for an application associated with the computing system, each grammar command corresponding to an executable command that is executable by the application to perform a corresponding application action, receive an indication of a first speech input, from a user, captured by a speech capture component, detect an ambiguity based on a correlation between the first speech input and the set of grammar commands, provide, to the user, an output that represents the detected ambiguity, receive, in response to the output, an indication of a second speech input that is captured by the speech capture component and resolves the ambiguity, and, based on the second speech input execute the executable command that corresponds to one of the grammar commands.

Centralized method and system for determining voice commands

Environmental signals are used to determine when to prompt a user to enable location sharing on their computer devices. These environmental signals may include the current location of the user being an unusual location for the user or a location that is tagged as a known social location such as a concert venue, stadium, or park. The environmental signals may also include one or more friends of the user being near the user. If the user chooses to enable location sharing in response to the prompt, the location of the user may be shared with some or all of their friends, or just the friends that have been determined to be near the user. After some amount of time has passed, or the environmental signals have changed, the location sharing may be automatically disabled for the user.

Enabling and disabling location sharing based on environmental signals

A method includes parsing a text source document to construct a document node tree such that the document node tree includes text offsets indicating the location of the text within the text source document corresponding to each node of the document node tree. The method includes constructing, from the document node tree, a Document Object Model (DOM) and a view node tree that represents the DOM. The constructing of the view node tree includes mapping the view node tree to the document node tree. The method includes providing a running representation of the DOM such that DOM elements of the DOM are linked to the text within the text source document corresponding to the DOM elements via the view node tree and the document node tree.

Linking source code to running element

A method and system for facilitating centralized interaction with a user includes providing a recognized voice command to a plurality of application modules. A plurality of interpretations of the voice command are generated by at least one of the plurality of application modules. A centralized interface module visually renders the plurality of interpretations of the voice command on a centralized display. An indication of selection of an interpretation is received from the user.

Centralized method and system for clarifying voice commands

A voice-activated user interface for an application is described. The voice activated user interface invokes a speech recognition component to recognize audio input from a user. If the audio input is a command, then a validation component is invoked to determine whether to validate the command prior to execution.

Selective confirmation for execution of a voice activated user interface

Systems and methods for enabling users at a plurality of client computers to share a common browsing experience are provided. A server computer according to the invention includes an interface to a communications network for establishing a first link between the server and the host client computer and a second link between the server and the slave client computer. The server has a shared view engine for receiving from the host client computer, an identifier that identifies the slave client computer and a locator corresponding to content on the server. The shared view engine causes the server to deliver the content corresponding to the locator to both the host client computer and the slave client computer. Thus, the host client computer and the slave client computer are enabled to share browsing of the content received from the server. To enable the slave clients to share in the browsing experience, the host client can send information such as URL and cookie data to the slave clients. Using the information from the host client, the slave clients can request the same Web pages being viewed by the host client. Alternatively, the host client can request the content not only for itself, but for the slave clients as well.

Shared views for browsing content

A system and computer-readable media for providing access to emergency data. Emergency data is collected from various sources and maintained such that it can be efficiently recalled in an emergency. In one implementation, the data is maintained in XML documents. An emergency application program provides a page and/or sub-pages via which a user interacts to obtain the data. The data is typed according to types of emergencies to facilitate user access to the appropriate data when needed. The emergency data may be automatically loaded from a remote source, such as a .NET service, or provided by a retailer. Actions may be associated with emergency data, such as to provide an easy or automated way to send an alert, email message, and the like in the event of an emergency.

Providing emergency data

Described is a method and system for initiating configuration of a modem connected to a mobile device. The system and method provide a mechanism for guiding a user through the setup process in order to simplify the user's connectivity to a network using the modem. In one embodiment, the mechanism monitors for when a modem is connected to the mobile device. When a modem is connected for the first time, the mobile device launches a wizard utility that directs the user's configuration of the connected modem. The user is able to choose from performing an initial configuration of the modem, or migrating settings of a previously connected modem to establish the connected modem's settings. Thus, the user is guided through the configuration process, increasing the discoverability of the modem and simplifying its setup for the user.

System and method for initiating dialup creation from modem connection to a mobile device

Described is a method and system for providing timed profile changes to a mobile device. The mobile device initiates a timed profile change in response to the user or an event associated with the mobile device. The mobile device monitors the profile period and provides a user with information regarding the length of the profile period remaining, as well as other information. When the period of the selected timed profile expires, the mobile device returns to a previous profile associated with the mobile device.

System and method for timed profile changes on a mobile device

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