Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kyle Matthew Von Haden

Igor Ralic

Paul Barnes

Michael Koenig

Ali Taleghani

Kevin Roland Powell

Domenic J Cipollone

Tom Neckermann

Kaushik Ramaiah Narayanan

Susan Michele Hendrich

Alfredo R Arnaiz

Alessandro Curzi

Kevin Field

Mari Olsen

The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods and devices for providing customizable enterprise-based policy for managing document content. Text from documents being authored and edited may be processed by one or more natural language processing and machine learning modules and a determination may be made that one or more enterprise rules relating to processed text are implicated. Properties from documents being authored and edited may be processed. Recommendations based on the one or more implicated enterprise rules may be provided to a document author to provide an enhanced reader experience and to increase the document's effectiveness or alignment to a common voice or standards amongst the content group. Analytics relating to a plurality of enterprise documents may be provided as they relate to document effectiveness or alignment to a prescribed voice or standards.

Enterprise writing assistance

Status-based reading and authoring assistance is provided. A status-based reading and authoring assistance feature can automatically determine a status of a user and automatically adapt reading and authoring tools provided for display based on the determined status. The status-based reading and authoring assistance feature provides the right reading and authoring tools at the right time, according to the current use of the application. During a user session with respect to a productivity application that includes status-based reading and authoring assistance, signals (e.g., user actions and context information) associated with a file can be received. A status regarding the use of the file can be determined using at least the signals. The status can comprise a reading status or an authoring status (or even a sub status). Reading and authoring tools provided for a display of the productivity application can be adapted based on the status during the user session.

Status-based reading and authoring assistance

The following disclosure describes software components, such as add-ins, that are launched automatically, without being manually activated by a user. In some embodiments, the add-in may run silently, e.g. the add-in runs in the background, without displaying content in an ancillary pane. The add-in may be given access to document content, enabling pre-processing as well as decorating document content with metadata for future use. The add-in may determine that the document has met a criteria, and in response, display a visual cue directing the user to activate the add-in. When a user does manually activate the add-in by clicking on an icon or pressing a keyboard shortcut, the add-in may be pre-loaded, initialized, and have already accessed and processed document content. In this way, the add-in may display useful content in an ancillary pane in much less time, solving the technological problem of delay between manual activation and initialization of an add-in.

Automatically launched software add-ins for proactively analyzing content of documents and soliciting user input

The following disclosure provides a system that filters and batches changes to improve communication between an application and an add-in. In some embodiments, the application batches a threshold number of changes made to a section of content. Using a threshold regulates the rate of updates to the add-in. In some embodiments, changes can be filtered based on the type of change (e.g. text changes, style changes, etc.) or the type of input that caused the change (e.g. keyboard input, cut and paste command, etc.). Filtering changes can reduce traffic between the application and the add-in, preventing the add-in from being overwhelmed and improving application responsiveness.

Enhanced processing and communication of file content for analysis

The present invention enables a system to efficiently maintain an ancillary pane containing a projection of document content, and content derived therefrom, while the underlying document is being edited. In one embodiment, an acronym pane displays a list of acronyms used in a document and one or more expansions of those acronyms. A data store containing maps is used to index which paragraphs contain which acronyms, and which acronyms are associated with which expansions. As sections of content are added, modified, or deleted, acronyms and expansions are added to and/or removed from the data store, causing the acronym pane to be updated.

Split mapping for dynamic rendering and maintaining consistency of data processed by applications

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Kyle Matthew Von Haden