Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Philip Zhian Loh

Joseph Patrick Masterson

Darren Alexander Apfel

Elena Catrinescu

Rebecca Jean Lawler

Yue Ma

Alexander Darrow

Jia Guo

Shahil Soni

Jonathan Jay Cadiz

Yamin Wang

Jun Tse Chen

Jason Andrew Cook

George Arthur Herbert, Iii

Jin Ma

Michael Patrick Loughry

Caleb Whitmore

Ilya David Gorelik

Jun Chen

Tania Albarghouthi

Stauffer Alexander Taylor

Alex William Darrow

A secure data path enables sending and receiving message applications to transmit instructions for recalling a sent message and updating or deleting content of the recalled message in an inbox of a recipient. In response to a recall request from the sending message application over the secure channel, since the receiving message application has access to a recipient inbox, the receiving message application may process the recall request to update and/or delete content of a received message—even after a recipient has read the received message. Since the content of a received message may be updated or deleted in a recipient inbox, robust and reliable message recall is provided.

Message recall and updating

A method for improving visibility of contents displayed on a GUI by providing a dark viewing mode that preserves user-generated formatting and/or style contained in the contents is disclosed. The method includes receiving content for displaying on the display, parsing the received content into one or more objects, based on at least a formatting characteristic of the objects, and comparing for each object a first color characteristic of the object with a second color characteristic to determine if a contrast between the first color characteristic and the second color characteristic satisfies a threshold requirement. Upon determining that the threshold requirement is not satisfied, the method includes adjusting the first characteristic, and displaying the objects with the adjusted first characteristic.

Providing a dark viewing mode while preserving formatting

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for assigning tasks to collaborators of a file through a contextual action. In one aspect, rendering of a file within an email application including a reading pane may be initiated. A task object may be created based on an input made with respect to the file. A reference point associated with the task object may be created within the file. The task object may be assigned to at least one collaborator of the file via the email application.

Task assignment from a file through a contextual action

Extraction and provision of message identification information to a productivity application for enabling the productivity application to provide an embedded communication experience in association with an attachment file is provided. A message including an attachment is received via a messaging application. Upon receiving a selection to open the attachment from within the messaging application, the attachment file is opened in a productivity application, and various parameters associated with the message are extracted. A path including the various parameters is constructed and passed to a productivity application, thus allowing the productivity application to provide a persisted conversation in a user interface of the productivity application for viewing of and interaction with the conversation.

Opening an attachment and conversation from a messaging application

Access to attachments of electronic messages and information associated with the electronic messages to applications external to a messaging application is provided. A message including an attachment is received via a messaging application, and a relationship connecting the message to the attachment is stored in a graph database. When a request is made to display a file list, an API is used to interact with the graph database. Attachments that meet a criterion associated with the file list and associated metadata are included in the list. Responsive to a selection to open an attachment, a productivity application communicates with the messaging application to retrieve the attachment and associated messages, and displays the attachment in a content display region and associated messages and messaging application functionalities in a communications pane in a single productivity application user interface.

Providing access to an electronic message attachment

Computing systems configured to efficiently attach files to emails are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a mobile device can include a processor, a camera, and a memory operatively coupled to the processor. The memory contains instructions executable by the processor to cause the computing device to capture, via the camera, an image of a machine-readable label shown on a display of a client device used to compose a draft email and decode the captured image of the machine-readable label to derive a network address of a webpage, an authentication token, and an email identification identifying the draft email. The mobile device can also load the webpage in a web browser, and upon receiving an input to upload a file, transmit the digital file to an upload server along with the decoded authentication token and the email identification for attaching the file to the draft email.

Efficient attachment of files from mobile devices

Content is created and is made consumable by a user. A Property associated with the user is accessed to determine whether the user is to receive accessibility content. If so, accessibility content alert processing is performed on the content.

Accessibility processing when making content available to others

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Philip Zhian Loh