Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kiran Phani Kaja

Michael Thomas McLean

Ryan Thomas Murphy

Santosh Kumar

Haroon Dawood Barri

Luiz Gustavo Bustamante Magalhaes

Ravin Sachdeva

Kalyan Ayloo

Arjun Kumar Kalluri

Savio Mendes De Figueiredo

Ashutosh Kumar

Nathaniel Trent Potter

Alexey Razuvaev

Krish Gali

Mauricio Cunille Blando

Shravya Konda

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for providing cross-device access to group features are presented. A facial image input may be received from a user. A determination may be made that the user is not associated with a group having access to one or more sets of features accessible from the device. An authorization request may be sent to an owner account associated with the device for adding the user to the group. A request to add the user to the group may be received via the authorization request. The user may be added to the group.

Automated user identification for cross-platform group and device collaboration

Techniques of relevant content surfacing in a computer productivity platform are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at an email server of the computer productivity platform, an email having a message body containing content and determining whether the content of the email contains a request to or a commitment by the user. In response to determining that the content of the email contains a request to or a commitment, inserting metadata containing one or more properties of the request or commitment into the email, the metadata. Then, when viewing of the content of the email by the user is detected, the computer productivity platform is queried for additional content using the properties of the request or commitment as keywords. The additional content is then surfaced to the user as being related to the content in the message body of the email.

Relevant content surfacing in computer productivity platforms

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