Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jane T Kim

Sean O Lyndersay

Warren G Stevens

Miladin Pavlicic

Bruce Alan Morgan

Amar S Gandhi

Sarah J Bowers

Benjamin N Truelove

William Gould

Gail Giacobbe

John Heinrich Lueders

Walter V Von Koch

Walter VonKoch

Mary-Lynne Williams

Jess Holbrook

Denis Possing

Lindsey R Barcheck

Israel Hilerio

Shiraz Jitendra Cupala

Mirko Mandic

Alexander H Malek

Edward J Praitis

Todd A Sahl

Clint C Jorgenson

Louis A Martinez

Nathaniel E B Auer

Wayne Wy Choi

Dave Risney

Michael J Patten

Aaron Michael Butcher

Ruth Kikin-Gil

Anthony T Chor

Bojana Ostojic

Yan Ke

Martin J Hall

Cindy Kwan

Robert J Mauceri, Jr

Vikas Rajvanshy

Stefanie J Danhope

David L Risney

John B Bravenec

Jonathan Garcia

Habtamu M Feyessa

Walter Von Koch

Lorrissa J Reyes

Mark H Schmidt

Jennifer C Trahan

Yi Lang Mok

Jaime Martin Sanchez Lopez

David B Flink

Peter D Sommer

Simin Wang

Laura J Gehring

Natalie M Eason

Pui Ching Hon

Steve Strauch

Ritika Virmani

Oliver Hurst-Hiller

Ned Bearer Friend

Justin Rogers

Randall Knight Winjum

Jeffrey Richard McKune

Nathan J E Furtwangler

Michael I Torres

Michael J Ens

Ryan Charles Colvin

Eric M Lawrence

Jacob Rossi

John Scarrow

Petru Moldovanu

David Ruzyski

Christopher M Vaughan

Matthew Allen Rakow

Prashant Singh

Elliott Jeb Haber

Sandra G Roberts

Nicholas S Smith

Kuei-Chih Sun

Ronald Forbes

Jonathan McPherson

Matt Augustine

Avrum S Laurie

Siddhartha Prakash

J Brian Smith

Wayne W Y Choi

Warren C Stevens

Rahul Jaikrishin Lalmalani

Marcus A Lewis

Andrew E Olson

Susan Makarian

Jess S Holbrook

Walter Vonkoch

The description relates to opportunity events. One example can filter events based upon at least one parameter from a profile of a user. The filtering can produce potential opportunity events for the user. The example can compare the potential opportunity events to the user profile utilizing a similarity threshold such that the potential opportunity events that satisfy the similarity threshold are considered opportunity events. The example can rank the opportunity events by confidence level of matching the user profile. The example can also automatically populate high ranking individual opportunity events onto a calendar of the user. The example can further notify the user about the automatically populating.

Opportunity events

The description relates to auto-calendaring. One example can obtain content relating to a calendarable event. The example can also communicate the content to an auto-calendaring service. The example can also receive a response from the auto-calendaring service. The response can indicate that the calendarable event has been added to a calendar or can request further information about the calendarable event.

Auto-Calendaring

Auto-calendaring

In one or more embodiments, a Web browser receives user input in the form of text that is entered in a suitably-configured text entry bar, such as an address bar. The web browser processes the text and ascertains whether the text appears to be a search or an attempted navigation. Based on whether the text appears to be a search or an attempted navigation, the web browser communicates the text to a search provider, along with an indication of whether the text appears to be a search or an attempted navigation. The search provider receives the text and the indication and can then take appropriate action as by returning a search results page or causing the web browser to be redirected to a website associated with the received text.

Direct navigation through browser address bar

A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like. Further, in at least some embodiments, a user can subscribe to a particular web feed, be provided with a user interface that contains distinct indicia to identify new feeds, and can efficiently consume or read RSS feeds using both an RSS reader and a web browser.

Finding and consuming web subscriptions in a web browser

A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like.

Content syndication platform

Various embodiments provide a service platform that integrates services, such as web services and/or local services, across a variety of applications. In at least some embodiments, services can be integrated with legacy applications that are 'unaware' of such services, as well as applications that are aware of such services.

Service platform for in-context results

The description relates to threshold views. One example can include a display, storage and a processor. The storage can store instructions for execution by the processor. The processor can be configured to process the instructions to create a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display. The GUI can include a threshold view that shows elements that relate to a family on a given day. The elements can include time bound elements, semi-time bound elements and non-time bound elements.

Threshold view

Various embodiments provide a unified discovery control that can be incorporated as part of a web browser. The unified discovery control provides a central location that describes various services that a website has to offer. In addition, the unified discovery control can allow the user to interact with the individual services that the website has to offer as by providing the user with the ability to add, update, uninstall and/or otherwise manage the various services that are described in the unified discovery control. Thus, the unified discovery control provides a centralized management system that provides the user with a common, predictable and repeatable user experience for interacting with various services that a website can offer.

Unifying discoverability of a website's services

Various embodiments can enable a webpage publisher to describe structured data on a webpage in a manner that enables a Web browser to intelligently present activities that pertain to user selections relative to the structured data appearing on the webpage. In at least some embodiments, a webpage publisher can provide markup that identifies structured data on a webpage. A service provider can provide a representation that describes the types of structured data in which it is interested, and how to handle the structured data responsive to a user selection. The Web browser can then use the markup in the webpage and the service provider's representation to identify and present activities associated with structured data selected by the user.

Activities operating on structured data

Various embodiments provide a Web browser that includes an address bar and functionality that distributes one or more tabs along a line that is common to both the tabs and address bar. In at least some embodiments, one or more of the address bar or the tabs are dynamically resized based on a task context associated with a user's interaction with the Web browser. For example, when the task context is associated with a tab interaction, the address bar and/or tabs can be dynamically resized to enhance the user's tab experience. Likewise, when the task context is associated with an address bar interaction, the address bar and/or tabs can be dynamically resized to enhance a user's address bar experience.

Task-based address bar and tabs scaling

Various embodiments provide a mechanism to allow end users to install web applications and websites onto their desktop. In accordance with one or more embodiments, client-side code can be utilized to allow developers associated with a website to define boundaries associated with user interaction, and have those boundaries enforced by a run-time engine. In at least some embodiments, developers can provide, through JavaScript code and/or HTML markup, various configurations for the creation of a start menu shortcut, navigation, and so-called jumplist integration.

Web application home button

Various embodiments enable a web browser to promote the availability of an installable application that is associated with a website to which the web browser has been navigated. The web browser is configured to discover the availability of these applications and, responsively, provide a user experience through which the user can acquire and install such applications, as well as switch to applications that have previously been installed. Thus, through the various embodiments, a user is relieved of the burden of having to navigate to a particular application store and periodically search for applications associated with sites to which they browse.

Browser-based discovery and application switching

Various embodiments provide a download bar user interface control that is designed to help users maintain focus on their browsing activities, while offering notifications regarding a file download. In at least some embodiments, the download bar user interface control is non-modal and is presented at a location within the browsing field-of-view that is selected to reduce user distraction. Various embodiments also provide a download manager user interface that enables multiple download-related tasks to be performed. In at least some embodiments, the download manager user interface is presented responsive to input to the download bar user interface control. Further to some embodiments, the download bar user interface control can be closed responsive to the download manager user interface being presented and download-related notifications and options transferred from the download bar user interface control to the download manager user interface.

Download bar user interface control

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