Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael K Forney

Raman Chandrasekar

Dean A Slawson

Sanjay H Ramaswamy

Michael W Butler

Wenjie Liang

Qi Ren

Jimin Jia

Arungunram Chandrasekaran Surendran

Erin L Renshaw

Karl Eberhard Tolgu

Piali Choudhury

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a user interface that enables an administrator to monitor the status of one or more long-running processes executing on a system. According to one or more embodiments, information about the long-running processes is received, analyzed and converted into a single format. This information is then stored in a storage device in the single format. In response to a command request periodically received from a user interface, summary information about the one or more long-running processes is provided to, and displayed on, the user interface. Upon receipt of a user selection of at least a portion of the summary information, the user interface issues a second command request that is similar to the first command request, but includes additional parameters, to retrieve additional information about the selected summary information. Once the additional information is received, the additional information is presented on the user interface.

Method and system for providing centralized notifications to an administrator

An information dissemination system ranks the search results based on a temporal weight assigned to each search result. The temporal weight is an indication of the importance to a user that varies with time. For each search result, the information dissemination system calculates a temporal weight that is based on the temporal proximity of the event that is related to the search result. The temporal weight may be used to re-rank the search results.

Temporal ranking of search results

An information dissemination system provides users information related to topics extracted from event classes. Event classes can generally be thought of as scripts that specify topics and actions for obtaining information related to the topics. The event classes are executed to obtain information related to the particular event class. The information dissemination system identifies a user event that is of interest to a user. The information dissemination system then identifies an event class that corresponds to the user event. The information dissemination system then performs the actions specified for the event class, obtains the action results, and renders the action results to the user.

Presenting information related to topics extracted from event classes

A computer-readable medium has computer-executable instructions for generating a user interface on a display device, the user interface includes a grid having a plurality of cells. The user interface also includes a visual affordance presented on the grid and visually connected to one of the plurality of cells, the visual affordance exposing properties of the one of the plurality of cells to which it is visually connected.

Grid entry user interface extensions

A user input is received. The user input creates or alters an association that links at least two elements within a system of data. A user is provided with, based at least in part on the association, an indication of relevant data.

Data ecosystem awareness

Information pertaining to human interactions with multiple data systems is collected. At least one of the human interactions occurs outside of an Internet environment. A user is provided with, based at least in part on the collected information, an indication of relevant data.

An information dissemination system identifies the interests of a user from information derived from various sources, such as, by way of example, the user's calendar entries, emails, World Wide Web (web) usage information, documents, enterprise resource planning (ERP) data, and the like. The information dissemination system then creates a profile for the user, and includes in the profile the details about the user's interests including the information sources to query, the user events which were analyzed to determine the user's interest, the topics derived from the analyzed events, the queries generated for the analyzed events, a language model of terms that are relevant to the user, and other information regarding the user. The information dissemination system then periodically executes the queries against the appropriate information sources, ranks the search results obtained from executing the queries, and renders the ranked search results to the user.

Adaptive dissemination of personalized and contextually relevant information

A graphical user interface is disclosed. The interface includes an active document that has been created or opened by a user. The interface also includes a plurality of data display components that are displayed simultaneously with the active document. A user illustratively utilizes tools associated with an application to create an edit content within the document. The display components each contain an indication of data that is automatically selected based on a calculated assumption of contextual relevance to the user that is working with the active document. The individual items within each display component may be selected and listed in a ranked order based on an automatically computed determination of what is most likely to be of interest to the user. The content of the data display components may be automatically selected based on people-to-document, people-to-people and/or document-to-document associations. Such associations may be determined based on a process of removing content from one document and pasting it in to another document.

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