Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ryan Edward Gregg

Justin B Mahood

Tali Roth

Jason Todd Henderson

David Claux

Oleg Ouliankine

Andrew Salamatov

Warren Randall Byrne

Rajesh Ramanathan

Daron Spektor

Malia Morioka Douglas

Mark Sunderland

Andrew M Himberger

Charles Duze

Giselli Panontini DeSouza Sana

Rafael Barcelos

Linda Chen

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Alice Jane Bernheim Brush

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Robert Novitskey

Owen Charles Braun

Michael Anthony Affronti

Matthew James Wood

Matthew D Wood

Can Mehmet Comertoglu

Joshua Adam Meisels

Aditi Desai

Richard P Grutzmacher

Bruce D Wiedemann

Andrew John Sullivan

David De La Brena

Kirk Robert Myhre

Edgar A Banguero

Federico Gomez Suarez

David De La Brena Valderrama

Andrew Mark Coates

Somanath Krishnaswamy

Shawn Lee Morrissey

Shri Vidhya Alagesan

Saurabh Kumar

Aaron W H Con

David G Porter

Andrea Elaina Grimes

Kumiko Yada

Melissa Rodden Morrell MacBeth

David Michon

Melissa Rodden Morrell Macbeth

Techniques and technologies for dynamic schema determination and enforcement are described. In at least some embodiments, a system comprises: a processing component; and a schema determination and enforcement component configured to receive a first data unit; analyze the first data unit to determine an inferred data schema; receive a second data unit; analyze the second data unit to determine whether the second incoming data unit complies with the inferred data schema; if the second data unit complies with the inferred data schema, write the second data unit to storage; and if the second data unit does not comply with the inferred data schema, at least one of: modify the inferred data schema based on the second data unit; or provide a notification of a non-compliance of the second data unit.

Dynamic schema inference and enforcement

An extensibility model is used to provide active and interactive functionality in communication items, but the embodiments are not so limited. A computer system of an embodiment includes components configured to identify one or more activation triggers that operate to activate gadget code using an isolated code execution environment as part of injecting content into an email communication. A method of one embodiment provides an extensibility framework for using defined gadget triggers and associated gadget functionality as part of automatically injecting content inline with a mail message.

Extensibility features for electronic communications

Techniques are described herein for normalizing the recipient style of electronic messages while preserving the discernible intent of the sender. Given an electronic message or series of messages with varying visual styles applied to message text and other content, the electronic message may be transformed with a normalized and consistent formatting style that is more pleasing to the recipient, while preserving the sender's discernible intent in stylizing the message.

Normalizing message style while preserving intent

A message related to a first thread is received, and a fork in the conversation is identified. The received message is placed in a second thread and a display shows the fork and that the two threads are related.

Identifying relationships between message threads

The techniques disclosed herein provide hosted third-party application experiences within storage service viewers. Users can store a number of files having many different formats (AutoCAD files, word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentation files, and many files having unique formats) at a storage service. Users can view and edit the contents of a wide range of file formats by the use of a Web browser. The storage service can generate a display page that is configured to access viewing and editing tools from one or more remote services. The display page can also provide controls for the storage service, e.g., Dropbox controls, while concurrently providing the viewing and editing controls for select files. The viewing and editing tools can be provided by one or more remote services, such as a website managed by a third-party entity, such as Autodesk, Inc.

Hosting application experiences within storage service viewers

An electronic messaging client caches copies of a subset of electronic messages available in a remote store in a local store of a user device. When the user device is in an online state, the client provides for the blended presentation of electronic messages such that a user can concurrently view information about the electronic messages that have been cached in the local store as well as information about electronic messages that are stored only in the remote store. The client also presents a blended state associated with a container of electronic messages to a user of a user device and enables a user to execute a search of cached electronic messages stored in a local store as well as of electronic messages stored in the remote store.

System and method for blended presentation of locally and remotely stored electronic messages

When a message is received, the recipient set in the message, as well as ancestor message identifiers, are analyzed. The received message is either placed in an existing thread in an existing conversation, or in a new thread in the conversation, based upon the analysis of the recipient set and the ancestor identifiers.

Deriving atomic communication threads from independently addressable messages

Technologies are described for modification of conversation presentation for enhanced user experience. Parts of the conversation may be detected and analyzed for their properties such as who sent a message, who received, when, was anyone left out from or added to the conversation, etc. The extracted properties and analyzed information may then be used to reverse a chronological order of the conversation and present it using interactive features such as collapsing and expanding parts of the presented information, providing a summary, removing unnecessary content, and comparable features.

Conversation modification for enhanced user interaction

Technologies are described herein for providing users of a messaging application with controls that perform one or more selected actions with a message. Any number of default custom action controls may be displayed in a gallery. The selection of a custom action control performs various actions to an active message. New custom action controls may be created and existing controls modified to provide any number of desired actions. Dialogs provide user-friendly interfaces that allow a user to assign the desired functionality to a custom action control. The custom action controls may be organized into groups and shared between messaging applications and computers.

Customizable controls provided by a messaging application for performing selected actions

Technologies for roaming personal information items across multiple computing devices using an IMAP server are provided. When a change is detected to a personal information item maintained by a PIM program one computing device, the data representing the personal information item is uploaded from the computing device to an IMAP server, where it is stored as a message in a user mailbox designated to hold personal information items. A second computing device then downloads the message storing the data representing the personal information item from the IMAP server and makes it available to a PIM program executing on the second computing device.

Roaming personal information items across multiple computing devices using an IMAP server

A digital calendar sharing control and visibility system and method for providing a user with control and visibility of digital calendar sharing. The system and method enhance and improve the sharing capabilities of current digital calendar applications. The system and method include a time-based (or expiration) sharing feature that gives a user control over the expiration date of the calendar sharing. The user can expire the sharing after a certain duration or date. The user also can specify a date range or a time range that a person can view in the user's digital calendar. A sharing audits and history feature allows a user to view who has looked at their calendar and what calendar information has been viewed. A private notes section allows a user to enter information that will not be seen by another person, even if that person has sharing permission to view the user's calendar.

Control and visibility for digital calendar sharing

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Ryan Edward Gregg