Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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Microsoft Corporation

Peter Loren Engrav

Owen Charles Braun

Christopher Hugh Pratley

Stuart J Stuple

Alex Jacob Simmons

Rachel Sirkin

Vignesh Sachidanandam

Malia Morioka Douglas

Kentaro Urata

Aaron E Erlandson

Trevor J Harris

Ned Bearer Friend

Mark Yalovsky

Timothy D Sellers

Nathaniel M Myhre

Stephen White

Salil Das

William Henry Gates, Iii

Shikha Devesh Desai

Peter P Baer

Caitlin E Ashley-Rollman

John Griffin

Benoit Barabe

Yogesh Madhukarrao Joshi

Aniruddha Prabhakar Kulkarni

Evan W Lavender

Mark Jaremko

Cezar Augusto Alevatto Guimaraes Neto

Christian Harper-Cyr

Jie Dong

Steven E Lucco

Bodin Dresevic

Sashi Raghupathy

Richard Jennings Duncan

Hiroshi Tsukahara

Steve Dodge

David Bargeron

Zoltan C Szilagyi

Kevin Phillip Paulson

Herry Sutanto

Hani Saliba

Michael Shilman

Matthias Baer

Timothy H Kannapel

Scott M Stiles

Jamie N Wakeam

Michael I Borysenko

Krista Bendig

Jerome J Turner

Todd M Landstad

Forest Woodcroft Gouin

Thomas R Wick

Jose Ramon Calzada Gomez

Craig Allen Lee

Brian Charles Blomquist

Jokko Korhonen

Nicholas S Smith

Yoon Jin Lee

Steven J Sinofsky

Daniel G Zarzar

Trevor Neil Lacey

Erin Greenly

Jeffrey Thomas Krauss

Brian Scott Krabach

Ying Zhe Chong

Krunal Mayank Sheth

Helen Marie Anderson

Maliha Sanaa Lakhani

Christopher Bobbi Yanasak

Davis Lindsay Wanless

Archil Tskhondiya

Vishal Mathur

Deniz Cakirkaya

Craig Thomas Targosz

Sarojini Garapati

Jacob Scott Noyes

Pooja Srinivas Kankanhalli

Rodrigo Fernandes De Souza

Kwon Nam-Yul

Ian C McGraw

Nam-Yul Kwon

Myung Sub Kim

Michael Borysenko

Christopher H Pratley

Owen C Braun

A reference to a digital item is stored as a digital card. The digital card can also be contained in, and/or refer to, other digital cards. The digital card can also include properties or attributes that may be added from the digital item that is being referred to. The digital card can be stored in a data pod within a de-centralized data storage system architecture.

System for creating and accessing digital cards stored in decentralized content storage

A reference to a digital item is stored as a digital card. The digital card can also be contained in, and/or refer to, other digital cards. The digital card can also include properties or attributes that may be added from the digital item that is being referred to. The digital card can be tagged with a tag that may also be applied to other digital cards. The digital card can be stored in a data pod within a de-centralized data storage system architecture so the tag is surfaced along with the digital card in different contexts.

Control system for controlling management and tagging of digital cards stored in decentralized content storage

A metafolder system manages a graph that identifies activities that are performed with respect to digital cards and that identifies relationships among the digital cards. The digital cards from a plurality of different locations in the de-centralized data storage system architecture can be aggregated for projection as coming from a single virtual location.

Control system for controlling management of digital cards stored in decentralized content storage

Methods and systems for deferring and resuming content from multiple applications. An application executing a client device may have an open content item, such as a file, document, or message. An input to park or defer the content item may be received. In response to the input, a data container for a parked item for the content item is created in a remote content-deferral platform. Metadata for the content item is retrieved and stored within the data container along with additional data, which may be user curated, to form the parked item. The parked item may then be accessed from multiple different applications via a park pane.

Deferring and accessing deferred content from multiple applications

A computer-implemented method for translating time between calendar systems is described herein. The method includes accessing a first tree structure for a first calendar system, where data corresponding to the first tree structure include time intervals for the first calendar system that are arranged into layers of nodes, and where the layers of nodes are mapped to universal time. The method also includes scheduling a calendar content item corresponding to a time fragment relative to the universal time. The method further includes translating the calendar content item to a first human-readable time fragment for the first calendar system by traversing the first tree structure corresponding to the first calendar system to convert the time fragment to the first human-readable time fragment based on the mapping of the layers of nodes of the first tree structure to the universal time.

Translation of time between calendar systems

An artificial intelligence ('AI') based system is disclosed for associating low-level user content, such as documents, email messages, and calendar invites, with high-level user activities using topics as an abstraction. The associations can enable a computing system to provide, among other things, activity-specific views that present a specific selection of low-level user content that is most relevant to a user at a particular point in time. The activity-specific views present the right information to users at the right time based on a context of a user and a user's past activities.

AI-driven human-computer interface for associating low-level content with high-level activities using topics as an abstraction

To improve efficiency of computing devices and improve the user experience thereon when searching for relevant events, the systems and methods disclosed herein provide event management and automated relevant event discovery. User information and event information are collected and stored, and events are searched for based on relevancy to a user. Relevancy to a user may be based at least in part on at least one of: non-conflict with calendar items in the user's calendar, location, the user's interests, the user's preferences and activity of the user's friends or contacts.

Automated relevant event discovery

A method that enables time as data is described herein. The method includes constructing a tree structure, wherein data of the tree structure is a plurality of time intervals, and layers of the tree below a root node comprise identical sibling nodes for layers above a threshold interval length and parent nodes share identical sibling nodes. The method also includes assigning a node identification to each node of the tree structure, wherein each node of the tree structure corresponds to a time interval, and traversing the tree structure to convert a timestamp to a human readable time.

Time systems as data

An apparatus for a real-time collaboration in calendar is described herein. The apparatus includes a state change module to receive a change notification at a second calendar client rendering a shared calendar. The apparatus also includes an identification module to retrieve an identification (ID) of calendar content, a change in a user interface state, and an extent of a calendar view from a first data structure. Finally, the apparatus includes a replica module of the second client to retrieve calendar content from a second data structure using the ID as an index value.

Real time collaboration in calendar

A system for a map calendar is described herein. The map calendar includes a calendar content database that is to store at least one item of calendar content and a navigation system that determines a zoom level and a panning position of the map calendar. The map calendar also includes a processor that is to determine a summarization level based on the zoom level and the panning position of the map calendar and render the calendar content according to the summarization level.

Digital map calendar user interface

Technologies are generally described for providing a system to facilitate efficient management and prioritization of conversations, such as emails, in a communication application. Conversations may be prioritized according to user preferences, and an inbox may be rearranged to display important conversations in a user defined order. Conversations may also be associated together so that they may appear together and flow together in the inbox. Additionally, the system may enable a user to delay display of a conversation until a later time based on various criteria such as location, time, and client device. A user may also move important emails to the top of an inbox for prominent display. The system may perform the actions automatically based on observed user behavior. Furthermore, the system may enable touch interactions for interacting with and managing the conversations, and quick controls may be provided for executing commands to perform actions associated with the conversations.

Managing conversations

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for integrating first class objects with email messages in an email inbox of an email client. In one example, a request is sent via the email client for first class object data to one or more data sources, where each data source of the one or more data sources includes first class object data of a different first class object type. The first class object data may be received at the email client from the one or more data sources. One or more first class objects may be created from the first class object data for injecting into an email inbox of the email client. The email inbox including at least some of the one or more first class objects and a plurality of email messages may be rendered in a user interface to the email client.

Heterogeneous content in email inbox

Prioritized and categorized presentation of incoming communications is provided based on characteristics of the communications such as sender, recipients, subject, body content, recipient's past interactions, and similar ones. User or administrator defined explicit rules and configurations may be taken into consideration along with analysis results of incoming communication attributes and user history in determining a category and a priority level for the incoming communication. The incoming communication may then be presented according to the determined category and priority level along with tools for the recipient to modify automatic determinations and otherwise interact with the communication.

Prioritized communication inbox

Tools and techniques are described for web-based multiuser collaboration. These tools may provide methods that enable users to collaborate remotely on documents using respective browsers. These methods may send representations of portions of a given document to the browsers, and associate portions of the documents with particular users. The browsers may receive representations of commands as provided by the users, and may determine whether to execute the commands at the browser. The methods may also include receiving from the browsers revisions to the portions of the document, and storing these portions of the document in storage areas that are configured for storing content that has changed relatively recently.

Web-based multiuser collaboration

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Peter Loren Engrav