Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Textio, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Jensen Michael Harris

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Aaron Michael Butcher

David Andrew Morton

Justin Denney

Martijn Eldert Van Tilburg

Robert J Jarrett

Chaitanya Dev Sareen

David Andrew Matthews

Eran Megiddo

Jennifer Nan

Susan Theresa Dumais

Patrice Lynn Miner

Michael Jay Gilmore

Bret P Anderson

Tsz Yan Wong

Nils Anders Sundelin

Matthew Isaac Worley

Mirko Mandic

Manav Mishra

Richard J Wolf

Rolf Arnold Ebeling

Scott David Hoogerwerf

Joshua T Goodman

Feng Zhao

Sashi Raghupathy

Manoj Kumar Biswas

Tyler Kien Beam

Steven J Ball

Christopher T Clark

David Fields

Ahsan Syed Kabir

Ginger J Gloystein

Andrew M Himberger

Richard Jacob White

Roland Radtke

William Henry Gates, Iii

Paula Guntaur

Dawn Marie Wright

Michael Victor Ehrenberg

Mark R Ligameri

Weidong Zhao

Bruce D Wiedemann

Martin David McClellan

Lyon Wong

Benjamin J Karas

Matthew P Duignan

Dennis L Davis

Katie Messerly

Tracey M Gauthier

Billie Sue Chafins

William A Avery

Robert H Liao

Olivier Tritschler

Devang Thakker

Patrik Lundberg

David A Morton

Srikanth Shoroff

Marina Dukhon

Kieran Snyder

Richard Hank Leukart

Robert Emmett Kolba, Jr

Elaine Y Law

Kevin William Humphreys

William Ritter Avery

Deepak Menon

Erin Elizabeth Dean

Andrew V Fomichev

Christopher William Harland

Orion Buckminster Montoya

Olivia Ann Gunton

Laurie Lee Dermer

Mark A Peters

George Arthur Herbert, Iii

Preethi Ramani

Jennifer Amy Sadler

Lou Nell Gerard

Catherine Rose Morrow

Jiaxin Wang

Kavitha Radhakrishnan

Richard Henry Leukart, Iii

Julia Cai

Mark A Ligameri

Aaron W Cardwell

Jose H Durazo

Thomas C Kerrigan

Jiaxin (Jesse) Wang

Jason V Morse

Catherine R Morrow

Ahsan Kabir

David C Fields

Thomas P Russo

Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface

Evaluations of a document are generated that indicate likelihoods of the document achieving its objectives. The evaluations are based on predictive characteristics of one or more outcomes of the client document that are indicative of whether the document will achieve its objectives. Specifically, a server receives the document from a client device. The server extracts a set of features from the document. The evaluations of the document are generated based on the predictive characteristics for the one or more outcomes of the document. The generated evaluations are provided to the client device such that the document can be optimized to achieve its desired objectives. The optimized document may also be sent to a posting server for posting to a computer network. The known outcomes of the optimized document are collected through reader responses to the document and analyzed to improve evaluations for other documents.

Using machine learning to predict outcomes for documents

An electronic input document presented on a display of a client is examined to identify a text unit in the electronic input document and contextual information about the input document. A set of annotations for the text unit and the input document are determined responsive to the contextual information for the text unit. Responsive to the set of annotations, a set of candidate texts are identified from a corpus of documents that can replace the text unit. The candidate texts are evaluated in the set of candidate texts to identify a subset of the set of candidate texts as a set of replacement texts for the text unit. At least one replacement text from the set of replacement texts is presented on the display of the client.

Passively suggesting text in an electronic document

A file access request is received from an application. One or more file types for the file access request are identified, and one or more file hosts supporting files of the identified one or more file types are also identified. A user interface is displayed, the user interface including a hosted area. Within the hosted area, at least one of the one or more file hosts displays a portion of the user interface identifying one or more files of at least one file host that can be selected for retrieval, or one or more locations that can be selected to which the one or more files are saved.

File access with different file hosts

An improved user interface is provided for displaying selectable software functionality controls and for presenting logical groupings of particular functionality controls associated with a selected top-level functionality. Underneath a row of top-level functionality tabs, functionalities controls associated with a given top-level functionality tab are presented in logical groupings. Selection of a particular tab switches modes of the user interface to present controls for functionalities associated with the selected tab.

Command user interface for displaying selectable software functionality controls

A user can request suggestions for text to insert at a position in an electronic input document. A set of annotations is obtained from the input document and contextual information associated with the document. A set of candidate texts from source documents are identified for the suggested text and evaluated. Each evaluation may indicate a likelihood that the corresponding candidate text is suitable to insert at the requested position of the input document. One or more of the candidate texts are presented to the client device as the suggested text to insert at the requested position of the electronic document.

Suggesting text in an electronic document

An improved user interface is provided for displaying selectable software functionality controls that are relevant to a selected object and that remain visibly available for use while the selected object is being edited. Upon selection of a particular object for editing, functionality available for editing the object is presented in a ribbon-shaped user interface above the software application workspace to allow the user ready and efficient access to functionality needed for editing the selected object. The display of relevant functionality controls is persisted until the user dismisses the display, selects another top-level functionality control or selects another object for editing.

User interface for displaying selectable software functionality controls that are relevant to a selected object

An operating system provides an extensible share action to broker content sharing between applications executing on a computing platform such as a personal computer, tablet computer, or smartphone. The share action enables a consistent user experience for content sharing to be implemented across all applications and eliminates users having to switch from the current application they are using to some other functionality in order to share content. Applications can participate with the operating system share action as source applications and/or target applications. Source applications may describe what content is shareable given the current state of their application when the user chooses to invoke the share action. Target applications can be configured to receive the shared content from the source application according to content type, and will expose a companion view of their application to the user that is specifically tailored to facilitate sharing.

Extensible system action for sharing while remaining in context

An improved user interface is provided for displaying a gallery of images showing different formatting options combinations that may be applied to a selected object. When a particular image is selected an associated formatting options combination is automatically applied to the selected object.

User interface for displaying a gallery of formatting options

Automatic sorting and grouping of electronic mail items in an electronic mail system is provided. An automatic mail grouping property may be selected for electronic mail received, sent or stored in a variety of storage folders. For a given mail location (e.g., received mail, sent mail, or a given mail storage folder), a selected automatic grouping property causes mail to be displayed to a user in one or more categories that make location of specific mail items easier and more efficient. Visible dividers with optional headings may be provided between mail categories to quickly draw a user's attention to a given mail category and to separate large numbers of mail into logical groupings that make location of specific mail items more manageable.

Automatic grouping of electronic mail

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Jensen Michael Harris