Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mircosoft Corporation

Paul Alexander Gusmorino, Iii

Greg S Melander

Jenny T Lam

Mark R Ligameri

David George De Vorchik

Robert Kenneth Stein, Iii

Patrice Lynn Miner

Cornelis K Van Dok

Charles Cummins

Adrienne E O'Donnell

Charles W Stabb

Kenneth Martin Tubbs

Michael A LaJoie

Tyler Kien Beam

Marieke Iwema Watson

Lyon K F Wong

Michael Jay Gilmore

Jason Fergus Moore

Robert Ward Massa

Colin Ray Anthony

Tjeerd Hoek

Paul J Kwiatkowski

Paul Cutsinger

Nicolas J Brun

Michael Nelte

Shawn A Van Ness

Talos Shu-Ming Tsui

Arpit S Shah

Stephan Hoefnagels

Timothy P McKee

Benjamin N Truelove

Bryan Pieratt

Martijn Eldert Van Tilburg

Aaron Wesley Cunningham

Relja Ivanovic

Richard M Banks

Zeke Book Odins-Lucas

Lynn M Muranaka

Luciana Bordallo Misura

Michael Curato

Shawna Swanson

Sasanka Chalivendra

Michael Anthony Martinez

Christina Szi-Gia Chen

Aidan N Low

Kieran M Phelan

Chris J Guzak

Judson Craig Hally

Richard Malcolm Banks

Scott S Hysom

David Dawson

Kanwal Vedbrat

David G DeVorchik

Eli Tamanaha

David Andrew Matthews

Corey Bryant Marion

Giampiero M Sierra

Robert F Day

Jan Thomas Miksovsky

Ahsan Syed Kabir

Benjamin Betz

Marcus Harvey

Jonathan Paul Rosenberg

Fabrice A Debry

Jeffrey C Belt

Raymond J Chen

Jason Alan Christensen

Isaac A Sheldon

Lyon King-Fook Wong

Candy Renee Knott

Rhae-Christie Shaw

Donna B Andrews

Anthony John Piraino

Gedeon Paul Maheux

Mike Sheldon

Jon Rosenberg

Gregory Scott Matthews Melander

Dave A Brasgalla

Gerald Paul Joyce

Alex D Wade

Kam VedBrat

Ben Karas

An address bar user interface control includes one or more interactive segments. A segment may include one or more filters or selection criteria for selecting content from physical and/or virtual locations. In some instances, a segment may include two or more filters or selection criteria which are logically combined for selecting content.

Address bar user interface control

In a graphical user interface environment, a situational-specific browser may be used to provide contextually appropriate levels of information for files whose information is to be displayed. As different views of files are to be displayed, the browser may dynamically adjust its configuration to display different types of information, features and/or command options. Different views may be predefined, or new views may be dynamically created in response to user navigation.

Scenario specialization of file browser

An items manager can request and receive data items from a data source via a data source adapter. The items manager can also maintain a list of data representation items representing data items. The data representation items can include user interface elements. Also, maintaining the list can include invoking a renderer to render the data representation items from the data items received from the data source, and including the data representation items in the list. The items manager can provide a client with an enumeration through the list of data representation items. The items manager may also provide other features, such as providing the client with notifications of changes to the list of data representation items.

Data items manager

An original representation of an original set of data in a data source can be provided, and an updated representation of an updated set of data in the data source can be received. A change notification set that includes change notifications can be generated by comparing the updated representation with the original representation. The change notification set can represent a possible set of changes that yield the updated representation when starting with the original representation. The change notification set can be sent to a client of the data source. One or more requests from the client for data from the data source may be processed while obtaining the updated representation of the updated set of data. This processing can include adding one or more placeholders and matching the placeholder(s) with one or more items in the updated set of data.

Change notifications from an updated data representation

A data representation that represents source data at a data source can be maintained. A request to perform an edit can be received from a client, and a request to make the edit to the source data can be sent to the data source. The edit can be optimistically applied to the data representation. Additionally, a change notification can be sent to the client. The change notification can indicate one or more changes to the data representation, where the change(s) resulted from the application of the edit to the data representation. A notification can be received from the data source after applying the edit to the data representation and after sending the change notification. The notification from the data source can indicate whether the edit to the source data succeeded.

Optimistic application of data edits

One or more requests from a client for data representation items can be received by an items manager. The data representation items can represent data items in a data source. In response, the items manager can perform the following: generating placeholders corresponding to the data representation items; returning the placeholders to the client; fetching the data items from the data source; providing the data representation items to the client; and informing the client that the placeholders are to be replaced with the data representation items. The items manager may determine whether each data representation item can be synchronously returned to the client. If so, the items manager may return that data representation item synchronously, and may forego providing the client with a placeholder for that data representation item. This may allow a client to interact with a single interface for both synchronous and asynchronous data sources.

Placeholders returned for data representation items

An address bar user interface control includes a plurality of interactive segments, each segment including one or more filters or selection criteria for selecting content from physical and/or virtual locations. A segment may include two or more filters or selection criteria which are logically combined such as by a logical 'OR' operation. A user may select a child control associated with an interactive segment, i.e., a parent segment, to provide a list of selectable child filters or selection criteria. In response to selection of a child filter or selection criteria, an interactive segment representing the child filter or selection criteria is added to the address bar succeeding the parent segment and the interactive segments subsequent to the parent segment are removed.

A graphical user interface is provided that has two distinct sections. A first area has an array of menu items. When a menu item is hovered over by a pointer, an icon such as a contextually-related animated icon is displayed on a second area and changes its appearance in such a way as to indicate to the user the location of the pointer and/or the consequence of selecting that menu item.

User interface menu with hovering icons

Methods, and computer-readable media for presenting search results in a folder hierarchy are provided. Embodiments of the present invention include providing a navigation portion in which data sources to be searched are selected, and an input portion into which search criteria may be submitted. Items within the selected data sources that match the search criteria are identified and presented as a folder hierarchy. The folder hierarchy may only include items that satisfy the search criteria, but otherwise is consistent with the native folder hierarchy in which the items normally reside. In one embodiment, the initial presentation of the search results includes only top-level folders that contain, at some level, items that satisfy the search criteria. The items can be located by drilling down from the top-level folders.

Hierarchical presentation of search results

Display screen with an icon

A system, apparatus, method, and computer-readable media are provided for generating a document preview. According to one method, a preview handler is provided that exposes interfaces that may be called by a host application to generate a document preview without launching the application program that created the document. The interfaces exposed by the preview handler provide a common framework that may be utilized by both operating system and application program hosts to provide document previews.

Providing a document preview

A system and method for filtering and organizing items in a computer system based on common elements is provided. A graphical user interface includes a plurality of display objects, each display object representing one or more items and a metadata property control corresponding to a metadata property. Selection of the metadata property control causes a list of filter terms to be presented on the display and also may cause a list of check box controls to be presented on the display, each check box control being adjacent to a respective one of the filter terms. The list of filter terms may be presented in a drop down menu. Selection of a check box control causes each item that satisfies the corresponding filter term to be presented on the display. The filters may be dynamically generated based on the properties of the separate items.

System and method for filtering and organizing items based on common elements

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Paul Alexander Gusmorino, Iii