Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jesse Matthew Liston

Christian Klein

Sophors Khut

Gyancarlo Garcia Avila

A technique is described herein for helping a user move a source object that appears on a user interface presentation to a target destination. The technique involves performing semantic analysis on both the source object and at least one candidate target destination. The semantic analysis yields a score that reflects the relationship between the source object and the candidate target destination. The technique then presents a representation of the candidate target destination that is visually enhanced to an extent that is dependent on its output score. The technique then allows the user to move the source object to a representation of a selected target destination, whereupon it becomes associated with the target destination. The technique can produce the enhanced representation by changing a characteristic of an on-screen target identifier (that already exists on the user interface presentation), or by displaying a transient target identifier.

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Jesse Matthew Liston