Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kaustav Mukherjee

Neha Motghare

Frank Gorgenyi

Pramod Nammi

Vyankatesh Ramesh Gadekar

Akshay Kalyani Kore

A facility for managing the displayed documents by an application is described. The facility displays a plurality of tabs each corresponding to a document loaded by the application. The facility receives a document stowing command in connection with a distinguished document to which one of the displayed tabs corresponds. For each of the documents to which a displayed tab corresponds, based on the contents of the document, the facility semantically determines one or more subjects of the distinguished document. At least in part in response to receiving the document stowing command in connection with the distinguished document, for each of two or more subjects determined for the distinguished document, the facility displays a visual indication of the determined subject. The facility receives user input selecting one of the displayed visual indications. The facility hides the tabs corresponding to the documents for which the subject indicated by the selected visual indication was semantically determined.

Stowing and unstowing browser tabs in groups each corresponding to a different subject

Techniques are described for exchanging files between users via a server environment that maintains copies of file system data from user computing devices. For example, the server environment can maintain a copy of file system data from the file system of a first computing device associated with a first user. The server environment can receive a file request from a second user that requests a file (e.g., by describing the file) from the first user whose files are backed up at the server environment. The server environment can send a request to the first user to approve the file request. After receiving approval, the server environment can send the file to the second user (e.g., as an automatic download to a computing device associated with the second user).

File exchange by maintaining copy of file system data

Techniques are described for receiving annotations in a fixed digital document on a first computing device and streaming them to multiple other computing devices that are connected to the first computing device using a peer-to-peer network. For example, a session may be established between the first computing device and a plurality of the other computing devices. Annotations may be received at the first computing device and streamed to the multiple other computing devices using the peer-to-peer network. For example, the annotations may include highlighting text in the fixed digital document, or electronic ink annotations made at a given location within the fixed digital document. These annotations may be streamed to the other computing devices in real-time, or at regular intervals, without requiring a cloud connection and without the need to save, close, and/or reopen the fixed digital document for the annotations to be received by the other computing devices.

Synchronized annotations in fixed digital documents

Techniques are described for interpreting selected portions of a user's computer text input as a query for data, performing a web search responsive to the query to generate query results, and interpolating the query results into the existing text input without the user having to leave the application in which the text input was entered. For example, textual delimiters may be defined for use by a given application that&#x2014;when inserted into a text box&#x2014;signal a query that the user wishes to have performed. For example, the delimiters and the associated text may be used to trigger a given query, and once the query has been performed, the delimiters and associated text may be replaced by the query results without the user ever having to leave the program or make a separate entry outside the text box in which the user is working when the query is generated.

Query interpolation in computer text input

Systems and methods for editing data files. One system includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive reviewer feedback associated with a first portion of content included in a data file, analyze the reviewer feedback using natural language processing to determine an edit to the first portion of the content included in the data file, and apply the edit to the first portion of the content included in the data file. The processor is also configured to determine a second portion of the content included in the data file based on the reviewer feedback and apply the edit to the second portion of the content included in the data file.

Automatic application of reviewer feedback in data files

Examples described herein generally relate to a computer device including a memory, and at least one processor configured to automatically extract page numbers from a portable document format (PDF) file. The computer device may determine a vertical coordinate of each run object in the PDF file. The computer device may identify, among all pages in the PDF file, a common vertical coordinate location within a threshold distance of a top or a bottom of a plurality of the pages. The computer device may determine that a run object at the vertical coordinate location of each page of the plurality of pages follows a numbering pattern. The computer device may convert the run object at the vertical coordinate location of each page into a page number for the respective page. The computer device may display at least one respective page and the page number of the at least one respective page.

Automatic extraction of document page numbers from PDF

In some examples, a facility chooses documents for recommendation to people interested in a distinguished subject. The facility accesses a data resource indicating, for each of a plurality of documents, (1) a subject semantically determined for the document, (2) a number of people who have interacted with the document, and (3) an aggregate level of intensity with which those people have interacted with the document. Based on contents of the data structure, the facility identifies one or more documents (1) for which the distinguished subject has been semantically determined, and (2) with which a relatively large number of people have interacted and/or with which people have interacted with a high aggregate level of intensity. The facility transmits to another computing system data configured to cause the first computing system to present a recommendation for some or all of the identified documents.

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Hyderabad Telangana, India

Kaustav Mukherjee