Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Textio, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Jensen Michael Harris

Chaitanya Dev Sareen

Robert J Jarrett

Nils Anders Sundelin

Matthew Isaac Worley

Bret P Anderson

Patrice Lynn Miner

Jennifer Nan

Aaron Michael Butcher

Alice Pritikin Steinglass

Tsz Yan Wong

Miron Vranjes

Paula Guntaur

Marina Dukhon

Nazia Zaman

Chantal M Leonard

David Andrew Morton

Justin Denney

Lindsey R Barcheck

Adrian James Garside

David Andrew Matthews

Brian S LeVee

Christopher T Bush

Matthew Jay Kotler

Christopher D Edwards

Erez Kikin-Gil

Ned Bearer Friend

Martijn Eldert Van Tilburg

Igor Y Zaika

Keri D Vandeberghe

Amy Elizabeth Alberts

Charles W Parker

Daryl Tanghe

Richard Fang

Bruce D Wiedemann

Mirko Mandic

Rebecca J Deutsch

Sean L Flynn

Navjot Singh

Feng Zhao

Sashi Raghupathy

Manoj Kumar Biswas

Christopher Doan

Rolf Arnold Ebeling

Christopher T Clark

Benjamin Salim Srour

Ahsan Syed Kabir

Marta Rey-Babarro

Roland Radtke

Andrew M Himberger

Raymond J Chen

Ginger J Gloystein

Yaou Wei

Theresa B Pittappilly

Jonathan Ian Gordner

Jan-Kristian Markiewicz

Nerea Armendariz

Gerrit H Hofmeester

Moneta K Ho Kushner

Jeremy Monroe Bowen

Mohammed Samji

Jon Gabriel Clapper

Song Zou

Scott M Stiles

Alex G Snitkovskiy

Michael I Borysenko

Michael H Krause

Dawn Marie Wright

Richard Hank Leukart

Adam Edward Barrus

Elaine Y Law

Kevin William Humphreys

Lauren Michelle Beckwith

Mark R Ligameri

Stephan Hoefnagels

Sander M Viegers

Michael Jay Gilmore

Jennifer L Sadler

Michael Koenig

Manav Mishra

Owen Charles Braun

Shikha Devesh Desai

Michael Anthony Affronti

Xiaogang Yang

Maria M Cameron

Priya Vaidyanathan

Edward Boyle Averett

Jeffrey J Johnson

Ryan Edward Gregg

Joshua Clow

Ryan A Haveson

George Arthur Herbert, Iii

Gabriel S DeBacker

Marc Wautier

Richard Jacob White

Matthew P Duignan

Brandon H Paddock

Sangram Salunkhe

Robert F Keohane

This document describes techniques and apparatuses for managing an immersive interface in a multi-application immersive environment. In some embodiments, these techniques and apparatuses enable a user to alter sizes and/or a layout of multiple immersive interfaces with as little as one selection.

Managing an immersive interface in a multi-application immersive environment

An application window divider control is shared by a first application window and a second application window in a user interface. Based on a received directional instruction that moves the application window divider control along an axis of the user interface, placement of the first application window and the second application window may be positioned across a range of consistently spaced points along an axis of the user interface. Placement adjustment can also impact other application windows in the user interface. The application window divider control may also snap to provide 'magnetic' points along the axis when certain conditions are satisfied.

Application window divider control for window layout management

Described herein are techniques for automatically forming groups of application windows. The techniques may be performed with a computing device executing a windowing system, the windowing system having a user interface element that can be interacted with by a user to manage applications executing on the computing device. Each application may correspond to a separate process and application window. It may be determined that an operation has occurred that will evict the application windows of target applications from the display, and in response an application group may be automatically formed. The application group may have indicia of the evicted target applications. The application group may be provided to the user interface element, and when the user interface element is interacted with by the user the user interface element displays user-selectable graphic application indicators for both the application group and applications other than the target applications.

Auto-grouping of application windows

A user can select content on an interface screen and provide an associated directional placement instruction to launch a new application window that displays the selected content or information associated with the selected content. The directional placement instruction may indicate an area of the screen where the user prefers to display the new application window. Responsive to the initiation of the directional placement instruction, a conversion module converts the selected content into a placeable representation of the new application. Responsive to receipt of the directional placement instruction, a window management system presents the new application window in the user interface in a location based on the directional placement instruction.

Content-based directional placement application launch

Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface

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

This document describes techniques for application reporting in an application-selectable user interface. These techniques permit a user to view reports for applications in a user interface through which these applications may be selected. By so doing, a user may quickly and easily determine which applications to select based on their respective reports and then select them or their content through the user interface.

Application reporting in an application-selectable user interface

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

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