Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Robin Winter Troy

Malia Morioka Douglas

Zeyad Rajabi

Mark E Pearson

Janet L Schorr

Michael Anthony Affronti

Tali Roth

Matthew James Wood

Scott M Stiles

Matthew D Wood

Jodie P B Draper

Jodie Draper

Tristan Davis

Daniel Yancy Parish

Theresa Ann Estrada

Andrew Smith

Elise Leigh Livingston

Josh Leong

Oliver Zheng

Allison Smedley

Zhouying Fan

Ashley B Cockerill

Marian Kimberley S Chua

Pam Teh

Systems and methods for sending an electronic message including digital ink. One system includes at least one electronic processor. The at least one electronic processor is configured to receive the digital ink for inclusion in the electronic message, determine positional information for the digital ink, the positional information representing a position of the digital ink within the electronic message relative to a position of at least one additional object within the electronic message, and send the digital ink and the positional information as part of the electronic message.

Preserving digital ink spatial relationships in electronic messages

Techniques for an electronic montage system are described. An apparatus may comprise a logic device arranged to execute a montage application comprising an authoring component operative to provide a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles, receive control directives to associate content files with presentation tiles, generate tile objects for the content files based on content file types for the content files, and store the presentation surface and tile objects as a montage. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for electronic aggregation of information

A ribbon for accessing an application user interface may be provided. The ribbon may be displayed on a computer in association with the application user interface. The ribbon may include a horizontal scrolling gallery. The horizontal scrolling gallery may display a subset of available options which may be utilized to perform one or more actions with respect to content displayed in the application user interface. An input may be received by the computer to navigate through the available options in the horizontal scrolling gallery.

Utilizing a ribbon to access an application user interface

Techniques for an electronic montage system are described. An apparatus may comprise a logic device arranged to execute a montage application comprising a presentation component. The presentation component may be operative to detect when a display size or resolution has changed from one used for an original layout of a montage. The presentation component may reposition, or reflow, the tiles in the montage in the changed display in a way that preserves the spatial characteristics of the tiles to each other. An authoring component may reflow tiles automatically when a tile is deleted from a montage to minimize blank space between tiles. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for dynamic layout of presentation tiles on a grid

Techniques to manage universal file descriptor models for content files are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and a file descriptor application operative on the processor circuit to manage file descriptors for content files, the file descriptor application arranged to generate a file descriptor for a content file in accordance with a universal file descriptor model, the universal file descriptor model to comprise a file descriptor surface with multiple file descriptor tiles to present corresponding content parts from the content file, with at least one of the file descriptor tiles defining a content part class representing homogeneous content parts from heterogeneous content file types. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to manage universal file descriptor models for content files

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

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Robin Winter Troy