Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ryan Thomas Murphy

Joseph McLaughlin

Michael J Kruzeniski

Brian M Wilson

Chad A Voss

Paula Guntaur

Jonathan David Friedman

Kenneth Fern

Michael A Smuga

Michael Anthony Faoro

Michael K Henderlight

Jeffrey Kevin Feiereisen

Chao-Chung Lin

Eva Britta Karolina Burlin

Santosh Kumar

Yung-Cheng Chen

Michael R Gow

Patrick S Corrigan

Dustin Owen Williams

Amit Gupta

Naresh Sundaram

Johannes Gehrke

Cindy Kwan

Jason Andrew Cook

Jannes Paul Peters

Sangya Singh

Dustin Williams

Giselli Panontini DeSouza Sana

Skye Lee Pazuchanics

Haroon Dawood Barri

Kalyan Ayloo

Luiz Gustavo Bustamante Magalhaes

Ravin Sachdeva

Kiran Phani Kaja

Savio Mendes De Figueiredo

Alisson Teixeira

Victoria Mbabazi

Alexey Razuvaev

Krish Gali

Shravya Konda

Mauricio Cunille Blando

Techniques of relevant content surfacing in a computer productivity platform are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at an email server of the computer productivity platform, an email having a message body containing content and determining whether the content of the email contains a request to or a commitment by the user. In response to determining that the content of the email contains a request to or a commitment, inserting metadata containing one or more properties of the request or commitment into the email, the metadata. Then, when viewing of the content of the email by the user is detected, the computer productivity platform is queried for additional content using the properties of the request or commitment as keywords. The additional content is then surfaced to the user as being related to the content in the message body of the email.

Relevant content surfacing in computer productivity platforms

Techniques for providing an in-place contextual menu and user interface for email and other information management system triage are provided in which a contextual menu can be overlaid or replace an item on a view screen. The contextual menu can provide action commands specific to the type and state of the items selected in the feature view of the email or other information management system. A single recognized selection input, such as a swipe gesture, selects an item and invokes an in-place contextual menu presenting actions that can be asserted on the selected item. Multiple item selection is available through the same invocation of presenting the in-place contextual menu.

In-place contextual menu for handling actions for a listing of items

Communication services enable two or more users to communicate electronically using multiple modes of communication. Conversations between groups of users are common, where one or more communications may be exchanged repeatedly over a period of time. In some scenarios, a communication desired to be conveyed by a participant in a conversation may be a simple endorsement, such as receipt acknowledgment and various levels of social activity actions and/or gestures, which may be useful for other participants of the conversation to see as well. Provision of endorsement indications in communication environments may enable the participant to select an endorsement for a communication or a conversation without explicitly replying to the communication or conversation, where an endorsement indication based on the selected endorsement may be transmitted and displayed to the other participants of the conversation through an endorsement module of the communication service.

Endorsement indications in communication environments

A mobile communications device user interface is described. In an implementation, a method is implemented by a computing device that includes displaying content in conjunction with a first level of a hierarchical menu in a user interface on a display device of the computing device. Responsive to receipt of an input to navigate to a second level of the hierarchical menu that is a sublevel of the first level, the second level in displayed conjunction with the content on the display device, the content having a reduced display richness when displayed in conjunction with the second level than when displayed in conjunction with the first level.

Mobile communications device user interface

User interface for a display screen

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