Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Gregory Akselrod

Robert D Donner

Karvell Li

Sanjay Garg

Tianyu Xie

Chad R Shurtz

Eun Ju Nam

Bernhard S J Kohlmeier

Pradeep Chilakamarri

Scott Kurtzeborn

Donald Gordon Hardy

Gordon Hardy

David John Rasmussen

Shikha Devesh Desai

Amit Wadhwa

Danny R Amirault

Varun Srinivasan

Scott Kurtzebom

Zaiqing Nie

Gareth Alun Jones

Ian Mikutel

Allison Gallant

Yong Cao

Ignacio Omar Venado Estrada

Daniel Robert Amirault

Prashant Thiruvengadachari

Bharathwaj Raam Sampathkumar

Koushik Bhattacharjee

Nicholas Jordan Barnwell

William Joseph Bishop

Abu Miah

A method of enhancing a link in collaboration applications includes determining, from content entered into a collaboration application, a string of characters indicating a uniform resource locator (URL). Upon determining the string of characters indicating the URL from the content entered into the collaboration application, the method includes automatically calling a first web service to obtain a representation of content referenced by the URL by sending a request, at least including the URL, to the first web service. The representation of the content referenced by the URL can then be received from the first web service in a format customized for the collaboration application, a computing device on which the collaboration application is implemented, or both.

Enhanced links in curation and collaboration applications

A uniform resource locator (URL) link inserted into a note or document can be enhanced through a capture service for curation and collaboration applications, including notebook applications. A local notebook application can call the capture service by sending a request for a webpage representation with a URL indicated for insertion into the note. The local notebook application can receive the representation of the content referenced by the URL in a format customized for the local client. The representation can be displayed as part of a preview window and user interface for inserting a clipping, URL or other content into a note. The capture service can take the URL sent by the local application and take a screenshot of a separately rendered webpage referenced by the URL.

Access and management of a user's content may be facilitated by, in response to receiving a request for content related to a specified entity from the repository associated with at least the user's account, identifying, in a content of a file in the repository, an entity container of at least one entity container associated with the specified entity; and communicating the entity container that is associated with the specific entity to a source of the request.

Access and management of entity-augmented content

A method of automatically augmenting content through augmentation services can include invoking a service to receive an entity determination based on the content and an entity container comprising an object of the content and one or more attributes of the object. The entity determination and corresponding entity container can be assigned as a marker to content being clipped. The marker can be used to enable access and actions that can be taken with respect to the clipping or the structured information augmenting the clipping.

Automatic augmentation of content through augmentation services

Systems and techniques are disclosed for enabling structured data to be associated with visual content in a manner that preserves the ability to edit the visual content using a content application such as a notebook application. Techniques and systems enable semantic notation to be introduced into selected regions of the visual content that indicate the visual content's structured data, allowing the content to be searched and accessed more easily by common search technologies and search engines. The semantic notation is assigned to the visual content so that the introduction of the semantic notation does not hinder the user's viewing or editing of the visual content with a content application. The inclusion of the semantic notation does not cause existing visual editing tools that do not understand the semantic notation to cease to function properly.

Storage and retrieval of structured content in unstructured user-editable content stores

Captured data can be transformed and augmented for a particular presentation in a document, such as a note of a notebook application, based on an identified entity for the captured data. The particular presentation of captured data can be provided based on entity detection, extraction, and knowledge base resolution and retrieval. Methods, systems, and services are provided that identify a primary entity of an item input to a notebook application and create an entity object for the primary entity of the item at least from one or more structured representations for content associated with the item. A template for presenting the entity object can be determined according to the primary entity, where the template is selected from a set of templates corresponding to different primary entities such that an arrangement and presentation for one primary entity is different than that of another primary entity.

Augmenting and presenting captured data

Technology is disclosed herein for licensing applications using a preferred authorization process dynamically identified based on conditions associated with an initiation of an application. Authorization is then attempted using the preferred authorization process. In some examples, the preferred authorization process is selected from at least a keyless authorization process and a key-based authorization process.

Dynamic selection of authorization processes

A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for licensing an application using multiple forms of licensing are provided herein. The method includes providing a first form of a license to a first computing device via a licensing service and providing a second form of the license to a second computing device via the licensing service. The method also includes determining a first state of the first form of the license and a second state of the second form of the license, synchronizing the first state and the second state to form a combined license state, and adjusting conditions of the license based on the combined license state.

Application licensing using multiple forms of licensing

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for licensing applications using a preferred authorization process dynamically identified based on conditions associated with an initiation of an application. Authorization is then attempted using the preferred authorization process. In some examples, the preferred authorization process is selected from at least a keyless authorization process and a key-based authorization process.

A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.

User based licensing for applications

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