Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael Anthony Faoro

Jason Todd Henderson

David Claux

Oleg Ouliankine

Chao-Chung Lin

Robert Meyer

John Leslie Gibbon

Andrew John Sullivan

David Pierre Marcel Claux

Guojun Yu

Joseph McLaughlin

Andrew Salamatov

Shivakumar Seetharaman

Kenneth Fern

Ryan Thomas Murphy

Vanessa C Feliberti

Jason Andrew Cook

Warren Randall Byrne

Gregory Bolles

Jeffrey Kevin Feiereisen

Eva Britta Karolina Burlin

Danilo Landucci Benzatti

Andrew Winslow Brough

Yung-Cheng Chen

Michael R Gow

Yeelin Tan

Gustavo Varo

Rajesh Ramanathan

Shyamalan Pather

Holly Knight

Niranjan Nilakantan

David Richard Reed

Praveen Seshadri

Robert H Gerber

Yasuhiko Mori

Jason C Mayans

Brendan Clarke Fields

Paul David Tischhauser

Kristian L M Andaker

Taketoshi Yoshida

Philip Lawrence Garrett

Shahaf Abileah

Charles Tete Mensa-Annan

Darryn Owen Lavery

Yusuke Bou

Chun Yong Chua

Feroze B Daud

Nankang Ma

Kenzaburo Tamaru

Koichi Nakajima

Application extension management may be provided. A plurality of related documents may be scanned to determine whether an activation trigger associated with an application extension has been triggered. In response to determining that the activation trigger associated with the application extension has been triggered, the application extension may be triggered and a user interface element associated with the application extension may be displayed according to a display rule.

Dynamic extension view with multiple levels of expansion

A compose form for drafting a message is presented inline within a window along with a message list. For example, instead of overlaying the message application's user interface (UI) with a new window for composing a message, the compose form is displayed within a portion of the window reserved for viewing content of messages. While composing the message using the compose form, the rest of the message application's UI remains visible and accessible to the user. For example, the user may navigate to another folder and/or move to another message/conversation by interacting with the tree view/message list view. A draft of the message being composed may be automatically saved when the user navigates away from the compose form (e.g. by selecting another conversation in the list view).

Inline message composing with visible list view

Techniques for providing an in-place contextual menu and user interface for email and other information management system triage are provided in which a contextual menu can be overlaid or replace an item on a view screen. The contextual menu can provide action commands specific to the type and state of the items selected in the feature view of the email or other information management system. A single recognized selection input, such as a swipe gesture, selects an item and invokes an in-place contextual menu presenting actions that can be asserted on the selected item. Multiple item selection is available through the same invocation of presenting the in-place contextual menu.

In-place contextual menu for handling actions for a listing of items

Extension activation may be provided. Upon receiving a new document associated with a plurality of related documents, extension trigger conditions may be evaluated. In response to determining that an extension trigger is satisfied, a user interface element associated with the extension trigger may be displayed.

Extension activation for related documents

Enhanced input field features and techniques for displaying and resolving location information in meeting items are provided. In response to a user's interaction with a place name displayed in the location field of a user interface for a meeting item, up to date information is retrieved about the location associated with the place name from a web service and displayed. The display can include a map image tile. In addition to enabling the displaying of up to date information, during creation of the meeting item, the location input field of a meeting item can present location suggestions from within the location input field, for example, as a drop-down listing of possible locations. The suggestions for completing a user's input text string to the location input field can be obtained from sources such as a web service, a mailbox, a managed database/directory service, a history cache/database or a combination thereof.

Location context, supplemental information, and suggestions for meeting locations

Call-handling rules may be provided. A user interface may access a plurality of information associated with a user and provide functionality for creating a plurality of rules based on the information. An incoming call intended for the user may be received and processed according to the created rules.

Call-handling rules

Extension prioritization may be provided. Upon opening a document in a software application, a determination may be made whether the document satisfies a respective activation rule for each of a plurality of application extensions associated with the software application. In response to determining that the document satisfies a respective activation rule for each of a plurality of application extensions associated with the software application a priority may be identified for each of the plurality of application extensions and a user interface element associated with at least one of the plurality of application extensions may be displayed.

Intelligent prioritization of activated extensions

A computer-implemented method for assisting in the scheduling of a meeting. A user who desires to schedule a meeting simply inputs the relevant meeting parameters. In response, the computer evaluates a number of possible meeting times by comparing the input constraints against a predetermined set of suitability criteria. Based on this evaluation, the system identifies suggested meeting time(s), and also may identify rooms suitable for each meeting time. The system also calculates an estimated desirability for each suggested meeting time based on its compliance with the suitability criteria. The suggested meeting time(s) and a visual indicator of desirability for each time are then displayed. In addition, the raw free-busy data for each attendee may still be displayed. When the user selects a suggested meeting time, an electronic meeting request is automatically populated with the meeting time and a suitable place associated with the suggested meeting time.

Facilitating automated meeting scheduling

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Michael Anthony Faoro