Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ian Dwyer Curry

Clea H Allington

Cindy Kwan

Eva Britta Karolina Burlin

Jaime J Hwacinski

Andrew Winslow Brough

Shahil Soni

Joseph T Flint

Poonam Ganesh Hattangady

Joan Li

Justin Son Pae

Anna Aleksandrovna Pablo

Teslim Abiodun Alabi

Kathryn Veronica Jean Sullivan

Flora M Lee

Spencer K Nelson

David Benjamin Lee

Jonathan Seth Kaufthal

Malia Morioka Douglas

Seth Fox

Eva Britta Ka Burlin

In various implementations, tools and features of productivity applications may be shared across companion devices to manipulate a document and/or application surfaced in a user interface of a primary device. The companion devices may synchronize state information to edit or otherwise interact with the document and/or application. For example, state information of a the document and/or application displayed in a user interface of the primary device may be shared with one or more companion devices, which in turn surface suggestions and/or tools curated based on the state information. A user may use the productivity tools to manipulate content of the document or otherwise interact with the application running on the primary device.

Companion devices as productivity tools

In various implementations, a productivity application allows selected content from an electronic document to be shared with and edited by multiple users through instances of a collaboration component. The collaboration component includes a distributed data structure that stores state information about the shared content. The component also includes application logic for managing the state information to reflect user edits and other such changes. This allows the selected content to be shared with the users in any application that supports the collaboration component and without the entirety of the document having to be shared. A user can experience the content in the context of applications other than the productivity application that hosts the document.

Collaboration components for sharing content from electronic documents

A method performed by a computing system includes generating a to-do list user interface comprising a user actuatable list element corresponding to a particular entry on a to-do list associated with a user, and a user input mechanism actuatable to perform a to-do list management function comprising at least one of adding a new entry on the to-do list, deleting an existing entry on the to-do list, and modifying an existing entry on the to-do list. The method includes generating an agenda associated with the user, the agenda comprising an agenda item having an associated time period, and detecting a flick gesture on the user actuatable list element on the to-do list user interface, and adding, based on the detected flick gesture, an agenda item to the agenda associated with the user, the added agenda item corresponding to the particular entry on the to-do list.

User interface driven movement of data

A server system suitable for generating calendar events based on guided hints is provided. The server system receives, from a device of a first user, an indication to create a calendar event. The server system derives, using natural language processing, guided hints for information for the calendar event, and causes presentation of the guided hints on a user interface displayed on the device of the first user. The server system receives the information in response to the guided hints presented on the device of the first user, and generates the calendar event based on the information.

Natural language event

A to-do list management system surfaces a user interface with a user input mechanism that displays a user actuatable element for each item on a user's to-do list. It senses a flick gesture and automatically moves a to-do list item to the user's agenda. It can also sense a user input gesture and automatically remove an agenda item from the user's agenda, and place it on the user's to-do list.

Efficient creation of a new schedule item is provided. Aspects include a quick create system for enabling an efficient schedule item creation experience when utilizing a scheduling application, such as a calendar application, a task list application, or a to-do list application, or an application with scheduling functionalities. A user can select a quick create option to cause a display of one or more icons designating predefined or learned schedule item types, which can be automatically or selectively moved to a desired timeslot in the user's schedule. In some examples, an icon can be dragged laterally within a timeslot to toggle between schedule item types. When a commitment input is received, a new schedule item is inserted into the user's schedule, and schedule item details are automatically populated into the schedule item based on existing schedule items or based on preset schedule item types.

Efficient schedule item creation

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