Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Matthew A Goldberg

Brett Waldbaum

Andrew John McGlinchey

Mark R Ligameri

Daniel B Cook

Randall Knight Winjum

Jeroen Vanturennout

Ranjib Singh Badh

Naizhi Li

Scott E Seiber

Satvir Randhawa

Maimoon Nasim

Arimand Samuel

Alex Odle

Chad S Oftedal

Techniques to share binary content are described. An apparatus may comprise a first related client having a message platform with a file share feature and an object store, the file share feature operative to retrieve a data object for a publishing client having a defined relationship with the first related client and a second related client, the first related client to send the data object to the second related client on behalf of the publishing client, and the object store operative to store and manage the data object using a unique name identifier received with the data object. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to share binary content

A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method is for enabling a user to efficiently navigate to a portion of a user interface configured to support performance of a particular task. The method includes receiving from the user an input that includes a description of the particular task. A result set is returned to the user and includes a plurality of candidate tasks that correspond to the description. The candidate tasks are displayed relative to an indication of at least one corresponding applet.

Searchable task-based interface to control panel functionality

A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method is for rendering a display associated with a task-oriented user interface. The method includes receiving a request to display a category view that includes an indication of a plurality of task categories. A system database is referenced to gain access to a collection of information that is indicative as to which of a plurality of tasks are affiliated with a given task category. The plurality of task categories are displayed each in association with one or more affiliated tasks.

Task-based interface with underlying extensible framework

A system and method is provided for generating dynamically changing HTML documents at a relatively quick rate in response to a client request. The system and method provide separation of the constant text and the code embedded in the HTML documents. An executable component is employed that includes all the basic functionality typically embedded in script code of a plurality of HTML documents. The dynamically generated text is broken down into string template pages. Each string template page can be authored as a single file and includes all the information necessary to complete a request. A string template page includes one or more strings and each string is made up of a text constant and can include one or more argument variables. Each string template page is provided with identifiers for pages, text constants and variable portions of strings. The pages are read, parsed and processed into a data structure into memory by the executable component for efficient use at runtime.

String template pages for generating HTML document

A method and computer-readable medium are provided for constructing a classifier for classifying search queries. The classifier is constructed by receiving a query from a user and applying the query to a classifier to identify the task. An unsupervised mapping between the query and the task is then identified and is used to train a new classifier. Under one embodiment, the unsupervised mapping is identified based on a user's selection of the task.

Method and apparatus for adapting a search classifier based on user queries

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Matthew A Goldberg