Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jonathan Seth Kaufthal

Maya Rodrig

Christopher D Edwards

Charles Scott Walker

Travis Spomer

Mark E Pearson

Jonathan D Esterly

Samuel C Radakovitz

Clinton Dee Covington

Hiroshi Tsukahara

Tyler Robert Adams

Owen Charles Braun

Caitlin E Ashley-Rollman

Nathan D Kile, Jr

Kyle Matthew Von Haden

Brian Daniel Meersma

Nicolas Gunnar Alexander Nuzzaci

Marcos David Marin Amador

Cosmin Catrinescu

Jenna Rose Ammerall

Azin Zohdi

Gregory Carl Hitchcock

Erez Kikin-Gil

Douglas Lane Milvaney

Daniel Paul Costenaro

Margaret Cui Liu

Gregory Alan Howard

Julie Christa Seto

Humberto Lezama Guadarrama

Taili Feng

Yue Ma

Ryan Heaney

Ian Dwyer Curry

Kyle Patrick Curlett

Edward Augustus Layne, Jr

Sophia Isabel Vennix

Sathish Kumar Venkat Rangam

Andrei Zenkovitch

Arnavi Mahendra Chheda

Kyle David Ryan

Sean Shiang-Ning Whelan

Ankur Lal

Barnabas Whitfield

Leeviana Peng Gray

Peter De Vries

William Dean Saulnier

Mara Beth Fortini

Yan Zhong Leigh

Michael Jeffers

Betsy Yu-pui McIntyre

Michael Martin Bennett

Kathryn Veronica Jean Sullivan

David Simon Carpenter

Amani Ahmed Dye

Nimisha Gupta

Akshay Bakshi

Matthew S Feczko

J David McCall

Zohaib Rauf

Jiuqing Song

Ryan Sloan

Han-Wen Yeh

In various implementations, tools and features of productivity applications may be shared across companion devices to manipulate a document and/or application surfaced in a user interface of a primary device. The companion devices may synchronize state information to edit or otherwise interact with the document and/or application. For example, state information of a the document and/or application displayed in a user interface of the primary device may be shared with one or more companion devices, which in turn surface suggestions and/or tools curated based on the state information. A user may use the productivity tools to manipulate content of the document or otherwise interact with the application running on the primary device.

Companion devices as productivity tools

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods, and devices for interacting with sharable dynamic objects are presented. A sharable dynamic object comprising a source file for a component may be accessed. A distributed data structure corresponding to the component may be generated. The component may be rendered in a host software application by processing the distributed data structure. An interactive control element may be rendered in the component, wherein the interactive control element comprises: a component location portion populated with identities of a plurality of distributed host experiences the component is included in, a component embedding portion populated with identities of a plurality of sharable objects that are selectable for automatically embedding the component in, and a copy component portion selectable for copying a link to the source file for the component.

Interactive user interface controls for shared dynamic objects

System and methods are directed to displaying interactive content with static content in a user interface of an application. More specifically, it may be determined that an interactive component is to be rendered in a user interface of a first application, where the user interface includes static content. In response to determining that the interactive component is it be rendered, at least one linking parameter may be determined for linking the interactive component with interactive content stored in a shared storage. Based on the at least one linking parameter, the interactive component may be rendered in the user interface of the first application in-line with the static content of the user interface of the first application. Changes to the interactive content made by a second user of a second application may then be updated within the interactive component rendered in the user interface of the first application.

Interactive components for user collaboration

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for interacting with sharable dynamic objects are presented. A sharable dynamic object comprising a source file for a component may be accessed. A distributed data structure corresponding to the component may be generated. The component may be rendered in a host software application by processing the distributed data structure. An interactive control element may be rendered in the component, wherein the interactive control element comprises: a component location portion populated with identities of a plurality of distributed host experiences the component is included in, a component embedding portion populated with identities of a plurality of sharable objects that are selectable for automatically embedding the component in, and a copy component portion selectable for copying a link to the source file for the component.

Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure enable creation and management of representations of content through the execution of copy actions, paste actions or a combination thereof. An indication of a copy action is received that copies a content portion. The copy action is analyzed to generate a (live) representation of the content portion. Other examples of representations are also generatable including a static representation and/or a live non-editable representation. As an example, a live representation is an editable and synchronized representation of the content portion that is synchronized with original source content. The live representation comprises a selectable data link that links back to the original source content and an editable representation of the content portion. In response to receiving an indication of a paste action, the live representation of the content portion is automatically rendered inline within a graphical user interface of a host application/service endpoint.

Creation and management of live representations of content through intelligent copy paste actions

Progressive functionality command and object access for object and other content insertion and modification are provided. In a software application user interface, when a given command is selected, where the command is a parent command having one or more child commands, a subset of all available child commands under the selected parent command may be provided in the user interface in proximity to the selected parent command. If a user needs more or different commands than are presented in the subset, a contextual pane may be selectively presented in the user interface having a number of additional available commands for selection by the user. Once the contextual pane is displayed, it may stay displayed until it is manually or automatically dismissed.

Progressive functionality access for content insertion and modification

A virtual reality device can implement varying interactive modes for document viewing and editing by displaying, at an application container level, a current mode view in a view frame of the virtual reality device; and in response to receiving an overview command trigger, determining context, including that the current mode view is at the application container level; expanding to a next level view of, e.g., a task level or an overview level; and displaying, at a next level, the next level view in the view frame of the virtual reality device. The current mode view of the application container level includes a container space of an application and an application container level rule for the container space. Conversely, the virtual reality device can adjust the next level view back to the application container level in response to a focused command trigger and identified region of interest.

Virtual reality device with varying interactive modes for document viewing and editing

Techniques and systems for providing real-world awareness for virtual reality are disclosed. In response to determining that a virtual reality application is in use, an awareness module can begin monitoring for external signals by at least accessing an available sensor of a computing device. In response to detecting the at least one external signal, the awareness module can determine a level of notification for an interruption notification of the virtual reality application based on the at least one external signal. The awareness module can receive context of the virtual reality application. A type for the interruption notification of the virtual reality application can be determined based on the determined level of notification and the context of the virtual reality application. The interruption notification may be provided to the virtual reality application based on the determined type.

Real-world awareness for virtual reality

Holographic augmented authoring provides an extension to personal computing experiences of a universal or conventional productivity application. A user interface of a productivity application executing on a personal computing device can be switched from a touch or conventional mode to a holographic mode, which opens communication between the personal computing device and a holographic enabled device providing a mixed reality system. A semantic representation of a command in a productivity application is generated as a hologram in a mixed reality system and the change to a content file from performing the command in the mixed reality system does not require a holographic enabled device to view or even further edit.

Holographic augmented authoring

Save and synchronization status information is provided. The save and synchronization status information may be concise yet informative to a user and may provide an indication of the current save state of the document: 'saved,' 'dirty,' or &#x201c;saving.&#x201d; The indication of the current save state may be displayed in a consistent and reliable spot such that the user may reliably know where to look to find the document's save status. Other save states may be included, such as offline or error. The indication may be selectable, such that when selected, the user may see additional save and synchronization status detail, and may be enabled to rename the document.

Modern document save and synchronization status

Embodiments of a system for automatically managing panes in relation to the application canvas in a user interface. The system includes a pane manager that works in conjunction with applications to provide access to panes while keeping a minimum amount of user content visible. The system allows an application to define a protected canvas size. When a pane is needed, the system determines if sufficient room for the pane exists or can be created by dismissing another pane. If so, the pane is added. If not, the pane may be displayed in a temporary manner. The system also responds to changes in the user interface size. If the user interface size decreases to a point where sufficient room for existing panes is no longer available, one or more of the existing panes are dismissed.

Adaptive user interface pane manager

Aspects of a system for automatically managing a pane in a user interface on a small form factor computing device include an adaptive pane module for determining when an event that affects the canvas size occurs, such as changing the display configuration or reorienting the display, which in turn affects pane management, or the opening or closing of a pane. The adaptive pane module manages the pane. After managing the pane, the system resizes the canvas and reflows the content as appropriate for a small form factor computing device.

Adaptive user interface pane objects

Aspects of a system for automatically adapting an application user interface display on a small form factor computing device include a computing device having at least a processing device, a memory, and a display. The user interface is a functional landscape of an application that accommodates and displays, in various combinations, multiple regions of application functional controls and information. An adaptive user interface display module detects a change in available screen space for the application user interface on a small form factor computing device, and adjusts the functional landscape accordingly.

Adaptable user interface display

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

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Jonathan Seth Kaufthal