Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Nithya Ramkumar

Nathan Fink

Dustin G Friesenhahn

Maura FitzGerald

Ethan Gur-esh

Amund Kronen Johansen

Tali Roth

Scott M Stiles

Yongjun Xie

Bernt Ivar Olsen

Shan Qu

Selva Nalliah

Ethan D Lexington

Automated hashtag suggestions are provided to categorize a communication. A communication application initiates operations to categorize a communication in response to a detected input to categorize the communication with a hashtag. A hashtag source is queried for suggested hashtag(s). The suggested hashtag(s) is received from the hashtag source and stored in a hashtag cache. The suggested hashtag(s) is also presented upon retrieval of the suggested hashtag(s) from the hashtag cache.

Providing automated hashtag suggestions to categorize communication

Relevance based dynamic navigation is provided. A communication application searches communications to identify hashtags associated with the communications. A relevance score is computed for each hashtag based on a relevance criteria associated with the hashtags. The hashtags are ranked based on the relevance score. Next, the ranked hashtags are presented in a navigation user interface.

Providing relevance based dynamic hashtag navigation

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for creating and managing persistent document collections. A data store is used for storing one or more persistent document collections. A content management application is used for managing documents for users, for creating one or more persistent document collections of a sub-set of the documents upon user request, and for storing the one or more persistent document collections in the data store. Users can create one or more persistent document collections from a sub-set of the documents. Users can also modify the one or more persistent document collections. A requested portion of one or more persistent document collections can be output upon request from an external application so that the external application can download one or more of the documents that are represented by the persistent document collection for further modification by the user.

Techniques for managing persistent document collections

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