Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Marcelo R Uemura

Daniel Joseph Rogers

Nikhil Kothari

Israel Hilerio

Michael James Harder

Andres Sanabria

Constantin Mihai

Pravin R Indurkar

Angela Mills

Colin S Cole

Systems and methods that dynamically reset a workflow state by employing a dynamic state manager that is external to the workflow, and enables interaction of a host with a workflow instance. An event driven workflow or state machine workflow can be supplied, wherein ad hoc events are employed to reset and manipulate the workflow to states that have not been modeled as part of the workflow itself, to dynamically create relation ships at runtime.

Dynamically repositioning workflow by end users

Data items contained in personal information are displayed in manner that is indicative of both the importance and the urgency of the data items. A first visual cue is assigned to the data item based on an importance of the data item. The first visual cue may cause more important items to be displayed with increased size and less important items to be displayed with decreased size. A second visual cue is assigned to the data item based on an urgency of the data item. The second visual cue may cause more urgent items to be displayed in a first color and less important items to be displayed in a second color. The data item is displayed using the first and second visual cue as to provide a visual indication as to both the importance and urgency of the data item.

Using structures and urgency calculators for displaying information to indicate both the importance and the urgency of the information

A method for automatically exchanging computer data is disclosed. The method includes the step of first generating a data file with a markup language in accordance with a predetermined schema. The schema is agreed upon by the source and destination location. Next, a software envelope containing the data file is generated. The software envelope is transmitted to the destination location. At the destination location, an object is created from the data file with a plugin object corresponding to the predetermined schema.

Method for request and response direct data transfer and management of content manifests

Displaying information with visual cues to indicate both the importance and the urgency of the information

Displaying information to indicate both the importance and the urgency of the information

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