Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Paul Ronald Ray

Michael Tholfsen

Brian W MacDonald

Diego D Baca Del Rosario

Mira Lane

Felipe Luis Naranjo

Derrick Leslie Connell

Jonathan Thomas Grudin

Rodney Coleman Edwards

Javier Garcia Flynn

Evan Malahy

Sadiq Dhafir Alkhalili

March Rogers

Arianne Taylor

Joshua Baber

Sanaz Ahari

Anthony Neil Dart

Steven William Macbeth

Daniel Marantz

Guillaume Simonnet

Omeed Chandra

Jason Blackheart

Kevin Chad Larson

Zachary Gutt

Nathan Deepak Jhaveri

Charles Hastings French

Darwin Kengo Yamamoto

Steven Tullis

Jerry Daniel Bain

Hady Moustafa Abou El Kheir

Laura Kern

Timothy Matthew Edgar

Daniel Edward Mcallister

Hernán David Maestre Piedrahita

Yonatan Turkin

Elad Graiver

Jason James Geiger

Brian Macdonald

A computing device executing software displays a view of a search assignment in a user interface to a learning platform. The device receives user input comprising search terms associated with the search assignment, and generates queries based on the user input. The device submits the queries to a search engine, whereupon the search engine performs searches based on the queries, and the device displays the results. As a user evaluates resources provided in the results, the device updates the user interface to include an option selectable for adding evaluated ones of the resources to a collection of resources for the search assignment. In response to the user selecting the option with respect to a resource of the evaluated ones of the resources, the device adds the resource to the collection of resources.

Online learning platforms with enhanced search assignments

A method of operating a search service includes observing, on a per-user basis with respect to each user in a group of users, usage of features of a search engine over a period of in association with search queries submitted to the search engine. The method continues with identifying, on a per-user basis with respect to each of the group of users, one or more insights into the usage of the features over the period of time. The service may then enable display of the one or more insights in a user interface.

Insights service for search engine utilization

An automatic speech sensitivity adjustment feature is provided. The described sensitivity feature can enable an automatic system adjustment of a sensitivity level based on the number and type of determined speech errors. The sensitivity level determines how sensitive the sensitivity feature will be when indicating speech errors. The sensitivity feature can receive audio input comprising one or more spoken words and determine speech errors for the audio input using at least a sensitivity level. The sensitivity feature can determine whether an amount and type of the speech errors requires an adjustment to the sensitivity level. The sensitivity feature can adjust the sensitivity level to a second sensitivity level based on the amount and type of the speech errors, where the second sensitivity level is a different level than the sensitivity level. The sensitivity feature can re-determine the speech errors for the audio input using at least the second sensitivity level.

Automatic speech sensitivity adjustment feature

A method of identifying reading passages for reading progress can include receiving a set of error-indicated phonemes, wherein the set of error-indicated phonemes correspond to pronunciation errors identified in a recorded audio file from an individual reading an assigned passage aloud; determining corresponding error-indicated phonetic rules for each error-indicated phoneme of the set of error-indicated phonemes using a mapping of phonemes to phonetic rules; identifying at least one content passage from a set of content passages that satisfies a condition with respect to the error-indicated phonetic rules; and providing the at least one content passage for a new assignment for the individual to read aloud.

Phoneme mispronunciation ranking and phonemic rules for identifying reading passages for reading progress

A computer-implemented method that may be carried out by a reader device or other computing device includes identifying boundaries of words and sentences of displayed content and receiving a language selection of a language for translating a selected unit of text in the displayed content; translating the unit of text to the selected language; retrieving from a picture dictionary, a pictogram associated with a tag applied to the word or at least one word from the sentence of the selected unit of text; generating pronunciation files for both an original language of the unit of text and the selected language; and displaying, in context with the displayed content, the unit of text in the original language and the selected language, the pictogram, and icons for requesting to play the pronunciation files. The selected unit of text can be a word or a sentence.

Simultaneous and real time translation and language switching across a set of features

Computer-implemented methods and a computing system are provided for presenting a new user interface paradigm which allows users to explore facets related to a search query term while maintaining the original state of the search query term or staying within the confines of the user defined topic. The methods and system present facets or categories of relevant topics of a user generated search query term. The user may then explore these facets in a number of embodiments while maintaining the state of the search.

Table of contents for search query refinement

Display screen with graphical user interface

Systems, methods, and computer media for enhancing search results, as well as user interfaces for performing search queries and navigating search results, are provided. A search query is received from a user. A plurality of web pages relevant to the search query are identified. At least one of the relevant web pages is identified as popular. A search result page is generated including a search result listing and a search result page header. The search result page header includes a link to the popular web page to provide the user with a quick and easy way to select a popular web page relevant to the user's search query.

Navigation to popular search results

Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods, and computer-storage media for organizing presentation of browser toolbars. In one embodiment, a toolbar of a web browser is presented. The toolbar has a search input box. Additionally, one or more application icons are presented on each of at least two sides of the search input box. An indication that a user has engaged an application icon of the toolbar is received. Further, an application window is presented beneath the search input box of the toolbar. The application window comprises content associated with the application icon.

Toolbar search centered user interface model

Methods, systems, graphical user interfaces, and computer-readable media for visually searching and exploring a set of objects are provided. A computer system executes a method that generates three-dimensional representations or two-dimensional representations for a set of objects in response to a user interaction with an interface that displays the three-dimensional representations or the two-dimensional representations. The interface includes filter controls, sorting controls, and classification controls, which are dynamically altered based on the content of a user query or the attributes of the objects in the three-dimensional representations or two-dimensional representations.

Visual search and three-dimensional results

Display screen with user interface

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