Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Katsumi Take

Ryan James Vulk

Xi Chen

Jan-Kristian Markiewicz

Lee Dicks Clark

Qi Zhao

Nicole Lee

Nathaniel E B Auer

Xiaoli Liu

Yiannis Paniaras

Qu Mo

Benjamin Sun

Sirui Zhou

Long Ding

Huifang Ji

In implementations of the subject matter described herein, a new approach for transferring content between applications is proposed. Generally speaking, in operation, a user can select an area on a user interface in order to cover content that the user wants to transfer. In response, the type of the content in the selected area will be identified. One or more options are then provided on the user interface based on the identified type, and each option may link to one or more applications. Upon a user's selection of an option, an application associated with the selected option is launched to process the content. In this way, the content can be effectively and efficiently processed across different applications, which will significantly improve the processing efficiency and user experience.

Content processing across applications

A computer-implemented technique is described herein that receives captured stroke information when a user enters handwritten notes using an input capture device. The technique then automatically performs analysis on the captured stroke information to produce output analysis information. Based on the output analysis information, the technique uses an assistant component to identify a response to the captured stroke information and/or to identify an action to be performed. The technique then presents the response, together with the original captured stroke information. In addition, or alternatively, the technique performs the action. In one case, the response is a text-based response; that text-based response may be presented in a freeform handwriting style to give the user the impression that a virtual assistant is responding to the user's own note. In another case, the response engages the user in an interactive exercise of any type.

Interacting with an assistant component based on captured stroke information

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Katsumi Take