Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Robyn Sambo

Bernhard Kohlmeier

Derik Bjorn Stenerson

Robert Andrew Little

Victor Poznanski

Ali Taleghani

Ruth Kikin-Gil

James Squires Masson

Seth Fox

Robin Emily Wakefield

Jignesh Shah

Douglas Maxwell Taylor

Yibing Zhu

Hongqiao Li

Michael Gary Heyns

Georges Krinker

HongQiao Li

Riyang Liu

Xiaosong Yang

Le Yu

Lin Song

Hao Mi

Seok Woo John Kim

Jim Masson

An in-application search service receives a query from a user attempting to locate information within a document. If a current index and current vector table do not exist, a content indexing service produces an index and a vector table based on the current content of the document. The vector table is based on semantic models that have been pre-trained. The query is tokenized and one of three different processing paths are taken based on the length of the tokenized query. For a single term query, a semantic search and prefix search are performed and the results are combined. If the length of tokenized query exceeds a threshold, a semantic search produces the results. Otherwise, search results are produced based on both prefix fanout and semantic fanout. Results are deduplicated, snippets are extracted, and the results and/or snippets are presented to the user.

Smart find for in-application searching

A method and system for providing one or more suggested application features to a user of an application may include receiving an indication of a user action in a document, accessing contextual document data associated with the document, providing at least one of information about the user action or the contextual document data as input to a machine-learning (ML) model to predict a desired intent for the document, obtaining the predicted desired intent as an output from the ML model, identifying based on the predicted desired intent one or more application features that fulfil the desired intent, and providing data about the one or more application features for display.

Intelligent feature identification and presentation

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for indicating a change to content in a document to a user. A document is displayed in a user interface to an application. Content then is introduced into the document from a source external to the document. After the content has been introduced into the document, the source of the content is queried for any changes to the content at the source. If a change has occurred, an indication of the change to the content at the source is introduced in the document.

Displaying an indication of changes made to content at a source

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