Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mark Sunderland

Brian M Jones

Robert Andrew Little

Marcin Sawicki

Tristan Davis

Ali Taleghani

Tali Roth

Malia Morioka Douglas

Matthew James Wood

Ryan Edward Gregg

Andrew M Himberger

Aditi Desai

Charles Duze

David De La Brena

Matthew D Wood

David De La Brena Valderrama

Edward W Tharp

Amit Wadhwani

Tristan A Davis

Ryan Gregg

Techniques are described herein for normalizing the recipient style of electronic messages while preserving the discernible intent of the sender. Given an electronic message or series of messages with varying visual styles applied to message text and other content, the electronic message may be transformed with a normalized and consistent formatting style that is more pleasing to the recipient, while preserving the sender's discernible intent in stylizing the message.

Normalizing message style while preserving intent

Technologies are described for rich visualization of embedded objects, attachments, and links within emails and similar forms of online conversations. In some examples, the embedded objects, attachments, and links may be analyzed and parsed to generate teasers, which may include enhanced images, summary information, and comparable features. The teasers may be presented within a body of an email or in a dedicated area of a conversation user interface and include interactive features such as presentation of detailed information upon selection without opening and processing individual emails.

Interactive preview teasers in communications

Technologies are described for modification of conversation presentation for enhanced user experience. Parts of the conversation may be detected and analyzed for their properties such as who sent a message, who received, when, was anyone left out from or added to the conversation, etc. The extracted properties and analyzed information may then be used to reverse a chronological order of the conversation and present it using interactive features such as collapsing and expanding parts of the presented information, providing a summary, removing unnecessary content, and comparable features.

Conversation modification for enhanced user interaction

Techniques to create structured documents and document templates using enhanced content controls are described. An apparatus may comprise an application to generate a document from a document template. The application may comprise a document template component operative to retrieve a document template comprising multiple document parts. The application may further comprise a content control component operative to manage a content control embedded in a document part of the document template. The content control may be associated with a data source arranged to store richly formatted content presented by the content control without necessarily requiring the data storage to be written in any particular way. The content control component may synchronize any changes to the formatted content between the content control and the data store. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to create structured document templates using enhanced content controls

An object model allows code to be developed using a programming environment to access the functionality of an application, in a word processing application, for example. The object model may be used to manipulate one or more data bindings in an application. Code may also be developed using a programming environment for reacting to changes, in either direction, of a content region or a node in XML data associated with one or more data bindings. Code may be developed to define data bindings between file content and content within data in a data store. Additionally, code may be developed that reacts to changes within a bound region of a file or within a data store, trapping or intercepting events, such as edits, additions, deletions, etc.

Programmability for binding data

A word processor application is provided for creating word processor documents wherein the data and presentation can be separated. Data can be stored in a separate location from the presentation surface of the word processor document. Users of the word processor application can establish links (or bindings) between the contents of the data and the presentation surface. A user can modify contents of a word processor document by directly changing the linked data without having to deal with the complexity of the presentation format, which can be constantly changing. A user can modify content of a word processor document, by editing a data store without any knowledge of the current layout of the presentation surface. A user can modify complex backing data through simple document edits, without exposure to the complexities of the data structure.

Data binding in a word-processing application

An XML schema is provided allowing data to be stored in a separate location from the presentation surface of an application. By way of the schema, users of the application can establish links (or bindings) between the contents of the data and the presentation surface as part of an XML document format. Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium are described implementing the schema.

XML schema for binding data

A programmable object model includes a plurality of object-oriented message calls for application programming interfaces allowing a user to programmatically access the schema validation model of an application by sending message calls and required parameters to the schema validation model to customize or otherwise modify the operation of the schema validation model as desired by the user. Once the user has access to the schema validation model of an application, the user may attach Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema files to a document and control definitions, grammatical rules, and other settings dictated by the attached XML schema file. The user also is allowed to customize the application's native schema validation functionality with user-defined rules and error text. The XML schema validation model of an application may be accessed from a user-created program written according to a variety of different languages such as C, C++, C#, and Visual Basic.

Programmable object model for extensible markup language schema validation

A programmable object model allows a user to programmatically access and utilize a Namespace or schema library containing XML schema files and related XML-based resources for associating the schema files and XML-based resources with one or more documents and for customizing the functionality associated with the schema files and XML-based resources. The programmable object model also allows the user/programmer to remove schema files and other XML-based resources from association with previously associated documents.

Programmable object model for namespace or schema library support in a software application

A programmable object model allows a user/programmer to programmatically access the Extensible Markup Language (XML) functionality of a software application. The programmable object model is comprised of a plurality of object-oriented message calls or application programming interfaces for allowing a user to access the XML functionality of an application by sending one or more object-oriented message calls or application programming interfaces to the XML functionality of a given application along with any required parameters for customizing or otherwise manipulating XML markup applied to a document.

Programmable object model for extensible markup language markup in an application

Methods and systems provide a tree view showing unannotated text nodes in a corresponding data formatted document. When the user begins to annotate the document with a desired data format structure, such as a markup language like XML, a tree view pane is displayed to the user to provide the user with an outline of the data structure presently applied to the document or to provide the user with an outline of the data structure applied to the document as the user annotates the document with data structure. In the tree view, an indicator is displayed in the location of any unannotated text nodes relative to their sibling data elements. If the user focuses on a given unannotated text node indicator in the tree view, the corresponding text node in the corresponding document is highlighted to the user to show the user the location of the text node that has not been annotated with data structure.

Method and system for showing unannotated text nodes in a data formatted document

A method and system are provided for using icons to show the validity of markup language elements applicable to a computer-generated document. A user of a computer-generated document such as a word processing document attaches a schema to the document setting out the rules and procedures with which the document may be annotated with markup language elements for structuring portions of the document. According to one aspect of the invention, the user attaches an Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema to the document for setting the data types, data structures and XML elements rules for the document so that the user may annotate the document with XML structure. When the user begins to annotate the document with a desired markup language structure, such as XML structure, an application pane is displayed to the user to provide the user with assistance in applying allowable XML elements at allowable locations and in allowable order and number. A series of icons are presented alongside the presented elements in the application pane to indicate the level of validity of a given element based on the editing context and location in the document.

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