Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

John Hoegger

Rui Hu

Michelle Elena Keslin

Daniel Robert Snyder

Venkat Pradeep Chilakamarri

Eugene Chudin

Arunkumar Gururajan

Si-Qing Chen

Jill Kathleen Larson

Tony Y Tzeng

Theodor J Scott

Jin Hee Lim

Kamal Choudhary

Jeff D Jarrard

Sanjeev Bagaria

Manya Garg

Mihai Aldea

Cynthia Guo

The techniques disclosed herein enable a system to drive collaboration between users by analyzing user interactions with productivity applications. The system provides intelligence mechanisms that work in concert with telemetry mechanisms to create interactive experiences that encourage users to embrace technology, improve productivity, and increase collaboration. In some configurations, the system can drive collaboration between users by correlating signals that define user interactions with individual productivity applications with contextual data that indicates how time has been allocated. During, or upon completion of a group activity, the system can identify individuals of interest and enable a user to readily share relevant files with the identified individuals.

Driving contextually-aware user collaboration based on user insights

Automatic generation of document templates based on recognized composition element patterns in a group of clustered documents is provided. Composition elements used in documents are typically unique to a particular user or to a group of users. An automated template generation system detects composition element patterns in documents associated with a given user. Sequences of composition elements from one document are aligned with sequences of composition elements of one or more other documents. The aligned sequences are scored to generate a document distance matrix. The documents are clustered together based on the alignment scores and a document template is generated for each corresponding cluster of documents. In one or more aspects, selecting a document template and updating it results in a modified document template or, in certain cases, a new document template. The generated document templates are displayed in a user interface for selection by a user.

Generating templates from user's past documents

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