Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Maya Rodrig

Erez Kikin Gil

Jonathan Seth Kaufthal

Mark E Pearson

Erez Kikin-Gil

Vlad Riscutia

Han-Yi Shaw

Matthew Evan Vogel

Julie Christa Seto

Charles Scott Walker

Choon-mun Hooi

Jon Bell

Derek Snook

Alexandre Vicktorovich Grigorovitch

Nathan D Kile, Jr

Han-Wen Yeh

Brian Daniel Meersma

Nicolas Gunnar Alexander Nuzzaci

Matthew Jay Kotler

Ned Bearer Friend

Charles W Parker

Daniel Paul Costenaro

Joshua Baber

Ruth Kikin-Gil

Igor Y Zaika

Margaret Cui Liu

Gregory Alan Howard

Darron Jack Stepanich

Humberto Lezama Guadarrama

Marta Rey-Babarro

Yue Ma

Sophia Isabel Vennix

Kyle Patrick Curlett

Edward Augustus Layne, Jr

Annie Y Bai

Ankur Lal

Barnabas Whitfield

Travis Spomer

Travis M Spomer

Sunder Raman

Ramy Bebawy

Cosmin Catrinescu

Diego Felipe Martínez Díaz

Benjamin Rea Howell

Jenna Rose Ammerall

Azin Zohdi

Leeviana Peng Gray

Sathish Kumar Venkat Rangam

Andrei Zenkovitch

Swati Jain

Kyle David Ryan

Arnavi Mahendra Chheda

Kimberly Shay Koenig

Hongrui Zhang

Mara Beth Fortini

Yan Zhong Leigh

William Dean Saulnier

David De La Brena Valderrama

Betsy Yu-pui McIntyre

Zohaib Rauf

Jiuqing Song

Kara Fong

Kathryn Sullivan

Kanav Arora

Amani Ahmed Dye

Nimisha Gupta

David Simon Carpenter

Darron Stepanich

Derek V Snook

Diego Felipe Diaz

Matthew Vogel

Julie Seto

Choon-Mun Hooi

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods, and devices for interacting with sharable dynamic objects are presented. A sharable dynamic object comprising a source file for a component may be accessed. A distributed data structure corresponding to the component may be generated. The component may be rendered in a host software application by processing the distributed data structure. An interactive control element may be rendered in the component, wherein the interactive control element comprises: a component location portion populated with identities of a plurality of distributed host experiences the component is included in, a component embedding portion populated with identities of a plurality of sharable objects that are selectable for automatically embedding the component in, and a copy component portion selectable for copying a link to the source file for the component.

Interactive user interface controls for shared dynamic objects

Systems and methods for integrating a third-party service into a host application enable multiple modes of integration of the data from the third-party services into the host application. The multiple modes include a first mode of integration that involves a data connection to a third-party service, a second mode of integration that involves the use of third-party extensions that provide predefined user interface elements for interacting with the third-party service, and a third mode of integration that involves the use of an iFrame element in the host application for hosting the third-party service. The modes may be activated and switched from within the application so that the user does not have to leave the context of the application to interact with the third-party service.

Multi-mode in-context service integration

System and methods are directed to displaying interactive content with static content in a user interface of an application. More specifically, it may be determined that an interactive component is to be rendered in a user interface of a first application, where the user interface includes static content. In response to determining that the interactive component is it be rendered, at least one linking parameter may be determined for linking the interactive component with interactive content stored in a shared storage. Based on the at least one linking parameter, the interactive component may be rendered in the user interface of the first application in-line with the static content of the user interface of the first application. Changes to the interactive content made by a second user of a second application may then be updated within the interactive component rendered in the user interface of the first application.

Interactive components for user collaboration

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for interacting with sharable dynamic objects are presented. A sharable dynamic object comprising a source file for a component may be accessed. A distributed data structure corresponding to the component may be generated. The component may be rendered in a host software application by processing the distributed data structure. An interactive control element may be rendered in the component, wherein the interactive control element comprises: a component location portion populated with identities of a plurality of distributed host experiences the component is included in, a component embedding portion populated with identities of a plurality of sharable objects that are selectable for automatically embedding the component in, and a copy component portion selectable for copying a link to the source file for the component.

Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe an application command control user interface menu to facilitate user interaction between a user and a mobile application. An application command control menu is displayed on a display screen of a processing device. An input may be received into an application canvas of a launched application. The application canvas may be positioned above the application command control menu on the display screen. In response to a received input into the application canvas, a soft input keyboard application may be displayed. The soft input keyboard application may display below the application command control menu on the display screen. A selection may be received in the application command control menu. In response to the received selection, display of the application command control menu may be expanded to replace display on the soft input keyboard application on the display screen. Other examples are also described.

User interface for application command control

Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure enable creation and management of representations of content through the execution of copy actions, paste actions or a combination thereof. An indication of a copy action is received that copies a content portion. The copy action is analyzed to generate a (live) representation of the content portion. Other examples of representations are also generatable including a static representation and/or a live non-editable representation. As an example, a live representation is an editable and synchronized representation of the content portion that is synchronized with original source content. The live representation comprises a selectable data link that links back to the original source content and an editable representation of the content portion. In response to receiving an indication of a paste action, the live representation of the content portion is automatically rendered inline within a graphical user interface of a host application/service endpoint.

Creation and management of live representations of content through intelligent copy paste actions

Progressive functionality command and object access for object and other content insertion and modification are provided. In a software application user interface, when a given command is selected, where the command is a parent command having one or more child commands, a subset of all available child commands under the selected parent command may be provided in the user interface in proximity to the selected parent command. If a user needs more or different commands than are presented in the subset, a contextual pane may be selectively presented in the user interface having a number of additional available commands for selection by the user. Once the contextual pane is displayed, it may stay displayed until it is manually or automatically dismissed.

Progressive functionality access for content insertion and modification

Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe an application command control user interface menu to facilitate user interaction between a user and a mobile application. On a processing device, a mobile application is launched where the mobile application comprises an application command control user interface menu displayable within a defined display space of the mobile application. The application control user interface menu is displayed within the defined display space. A tab comprises one or more user interface elements for application command control. Input is received for selection of a tab of the application control user interface menu. In response to the received input, display of the application command control user interface menu is modified to display one or more tabs within the defined display space. Other examples are also described.

Application command control for smaller screen display

Examples of the present disclosure describe application command control for small screen display. When detecting a display width associated with a processing device is equal to or less than a threshold value, the processing device launches an application command control programmed for display on small screens. The application command control interfaces with an application and comprises a plurality of top-level palettes and a plurality of drill-in palettes programmed for the application. A top-level palette for the application is vertically scrollable and comprises a collection of rows comprising one or more selectable command elements. A row of the one or more command elements of the top-level palette comprises a drill-in feature that when selected presents a drill-in palette. A drill-in palette is vertically scrollable and comprises one or more rows of selectable command elements.

Application command control for small screen display

A user input is detected that triggers a contextual command bar to be surfaced. A commanding context, in an application that the user has open, is identified and a set of commands to be surfaced in the contextual command bar is identified, based upon the context. The identified set of commands is surfaced on the contextual command bar for user interaction.

Contextual command bar

Methods and systems are provided for an improved user interface for displaying and scaling selectable software commands and controls in at least one of a first ribbon and a second ribbon. Underneath a first ribbon of top-level command tabs, selectable controls associated with a selected command tab are presented in logical subgroups or chunks. The selectable controls within the chunks are granularly scaled to accommodate different screen sizes or changes in window size. The scaling includes moving a subset of the selectable controls within at least one of the chunks between an overflow pane and the second ribbon.

Command user interface for displaying and scaling selectable controls and commands

Display screen with graphical user interface

Automatic capture and population of task and list items in an electronic task or list surface via voice or audio input through an audio recording-capable mobile computing device is provided. A voice or audio task or list item may be captured for entry into a task application interface or into a list authoring surface interface for subsequent use as task items, reminders, 'to do' items, list items, agenda items, work organization outlines, and the like. Captured voice or audio content may be transcribed locally or remotely, and transcribed content may be populated into a task or list authoring surface user interface that may be displayed on the capturing device (e.g., mobile telephone), or that may be stored remotely and subsequently displayed in association with a number of applications on a number of different computing devices.

Population of lists and tasks from captured voice and audio content

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

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Maya Rodrig