Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rachel Sirkin

Malia Morioka Douglas

Aaron E Erlandson

Peter Loren Engrav

Stephen White

Evan W Lavender

Trevor J Harris

Yoon Jin Lee

Erin Greenly

Shikha Devesh Desai

Caitlin E Ashley-Rollman

Jie Dong

Christian Harper-Cyr

Steven E Lucco

Lynn Ayres

Tariq Sharif

Mark Rolland Knight

Yamin Wang

Shobana Balakrishnan

Matteo Venanzi

Amy Huyen Phuoc Nguyen

Robin Thomas

Salil Das

Christophe Jacky Henri Van Gysel

Ruediger A Kinast

Ying Zhe Chong

Helen Marie Anderson

Christopher C Knestrick

Bhaskar Mitra

Krunal Mayank Sheth

Rodrigo Fernandes De Souza

Ashita Khetan

Pooja Srinivas Kankanhalli

Jacob Scott Noyes

Sri Ramya Mallipudi

Roy Rosemarin

Nicola Cancedda

Grzegorz Stanislaw Kukla

Eugene Ahn

Ilya Greysukh

Pankaj S Luthra

Thomas Christopher Laflin

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 computer-implemented method for implementing a map calendar graphical user interface (GUI) including content-variable view levels is described herein. The method includes executing a map calendar application to provide a map calendar GUI surfaced on a display. The map calendar GUI includes interactive visualizations of a map calendar that are organized into content-variable view levels that relate to specific units of time. The method also includes displaying, via the surfaced map calendar GUI, interactive visualizations of different content-variable view levels such that non-level-specific calendar content items are displayed with respect to all content-variable view levels that encompass the time fragments corresponding to the non-level-specific calendar content items, while level-specific calendar content items are only displayed with respect to one or more content-variable view levels to which the level-specific calendar content items have been specifically linked, as determined by one or more user inputs.

Map calendar graphical user interface with content-variable view levels

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

Systems and methods are provided that automatically process a message input, construct an intelligent query based on the processing of the message input, and provide at least one attachable entity according to the processing results and the intelligent query. In some example aspects, a message is received. A natural language processor to determine if the message is requesting content may then process the message. If the message is determined to be requesting content, then candidate sub-queries may be generated to serve as a training set for a query that will be sent to an external search engine to retrieve the attachable entity. The sub-queries may be ranked in order of relevance and performance score. The highest ranked sub-queries may then be used in the actual query that is fired against the external search engine. The external search engine may search local and remote repositories for the top K most relevant attachable entities and present them to a user for attachment in a reply message.

Intelligent query system for attachments

A computer-implemented method for implementing a map calendar application and corresponding map calendar GUI that provide time mold functionality is described herein. The method includes executing the map calendar application to provide the map calendar GUI surfaced on a display. The map calendar GUI includes an interactive visualization of a map calendar, which includes a continuous, manipulable sequence of calendar content data corresponding to calendar content items that are organized based on units of time within a coordinate plane. The method also includes categorizing the calendar content items based on time categories corresponding to the calendar content items and identifying time patterns corresponding to the categorized calendar content items. The method further includes generating a time mold of the map calendar based on the identified time patterns and visually overlaying the time mold onto corresponding calendar content items within the interactive visualization.

Map calendar graphical user interface with dynamic time mold functionality

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

Systems and devices for presenting coordinated event search results in a user interface for a calendar are disclosed. In an example, operations include: generating a calendar surface user interface, to display at least one event in a calendar view; receiving a search query for a search of the calendar; generating a search result user interface, to display events from a result of the search query; and updating the calendar surface based on the search result, with the display of the events in the calendar surface being updated based on a match with the search query. As various examples, based on the search results or the search query: the search result portion may indicate that a corresponding event is displayed within the calendar surface portion; graphical emphasis effects may be applied to search results or events; or graphical de-emphasis effects may be applied to search results or events.

Calendar user interface search and interactivity features

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Rachel Sirkin