Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jason Andrew Cook

Hayley Lynn Steplyk

Joseph Patrick Masterson

Justin Son Pae

Shivakumar Seetharaman

Michael Anthony Faoro

Vanessa C Feliberti

Gregory Bolles

Danilo Landucci Benzatti

Andrew Winslow Brough

Skye Lee Pazuchanics

Yeelin Tan

Gustavo Varo

Amit Gupta

Darren Alexander Apfel

Joseph McLaughlin

Elena Catrinescu

Russell Lee Simpson, Jr

Naresh Sundaram

Johannes Gehrke

Cindy Kwan

Rebecca Jean Lawler

Ryan Thomas Murphy

Kathleen R Thompson

Misbah Uraizee

Sangya Singh

Philip Zhian Loh

Joey Masterson

Santosh Kumar

Nicholas S Smith

Giselli Panontini DeSouza Sana

Ruediger A Kinast

Weina Xie

Matthew T McFadden

Ilya Smirnov

David Meyers

Pallavi S Mavinkurve

Den Delimarschi

Alisson Teixeira

Alex William Darrow

Victoria Mbabazi

Samuel T Cook

Joshua Paul LaMar

Paul Limont

Kip Fern

Access to attachments of electronic messages and information associated with the electronic messages to applications external to a messaging application is provided. A message including an attachment is received via a messaging application, and a relationship connecting the message to the attachment is stored in a graph database. When a request is made to display a file list, an API is used to interact with the graph database. Attachments that meet a criterion associated with the file list and associated metadata are included in the list. Responsive to a selection to open an attachment, a productivity application communicates with the messaging application to retrieve the attachment and associated messages, and displays the attachment in a content display region and associated messages and messaging application functionalities in a communications pane in a single productivity application user interface.

Providing access to an electronic message attachment

Parsed attachments from email communications may be sorted. In some examples, an application, such as an email processing application, may display email summaries associated with emails within an email summary view of the email application interface. A selected email associated with a selected email summary may be displayed in an email view. The email processing application may identify one or more attachments within the emails. Attachment summaries associated with the one or more attachments may be displayed within an attachment summary view of the email application interface.

Sorting parsed attachments from communications

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for differentiating a conversation scope within an email application. A personal view may be rendered within an email application. The personal view may include at least one personal message and one group message. A group header may be rendered within the personal view in response to a selection of the at least one group message. The group header may include at least a group trigger. A group view may be rendered within the email application in response to a selection of the group trigger. The group view may include a group view header.

Group headers for differentiating conversation scope and exposing interactive tools

Enhanced input field features and techniques for displaying and resolving location information in meeting items are provided. In response to a user's interaction with a place name displayed in the location field of a user interface for a meeting item, up to date information is retrieved about the location associated with the place name from a web service and displayed. The display can include a map image tile. In addition to enabling the displaying of up to date information, during creation of the meeting item, the location input field of a meeting item can present location suggestions from within the location input field, for example, as a drop-down listing of possible locations. The suggestions for completing a user's input text string to the location input field can be obtained from sources such as a web service, a mailbox, a managed database/directory service, a history cache/database or a combination thereof.

Location context, supplemental information, and suggestions for meeting locations

Communication services enable two or more users to communicate electronically using multiple modes of communication. Conversations between groups of users are common, where one or more communications may be exchanged repeatedly over a period of time. In some scenarios, a communication desired to be conveyed by a participant in a conversation may be a simple endorsement, such as receipt acknowledgment and various levels of social activity actions and/or gestures, which may be useful for other participants of the conversation to see as well. Provision of endorsement indications in communication environments may enable the participant to select an endorsement for a communication or a conversation without explicitly replying to the communication or conversation, where an endorsement indication based on the selected endorsement may be transmitted and displayed to the other participants of the conversation through an endorsement module of the communication service.

Endorsement indications in communication environments

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