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Sean O Lyndersay

Jane T Kim

Miladin Pavlicic

Warren G Stevens

Amar S Gandhi

Benjamin N Truelove

Walter V Von Koch

William Gould

Michael J Patten

Bruce Alan Morgan

Tanvi Surti

Walter VonKoch

Chee Chen Tong

Jean-Pierre Duplessis

John Heinrich Lueders

Wayne Wy Choi

Timothy Mark Moore

Israel Hilerio

David T Jones

Mike Pell

Tariq Sharif

Edward J Praitis

Ritika Kapadia

John Hazen

Sebastien Zimmermann

Amy Adams Placzkiewicz

Eric A Vera

Sharon Cohen

Jonathan A Gass

Amer A Hassan

Thomas W Kuehnel

Hui Shen

Abhishek Abhishek

Yi Lu

Anton W Krantz

Brian J Deen

Jiandong Ruan

Joel Mathew Soderberg

Mark Yalovsky

Ashwin Palekar

Mohammad Shabbir Alam

Caglar Gunyakti

Vishesh Parikh

Srinivas Raghu Gatta

David Joel Sheldon

Marty J Hall

Cindy Kwan

Melissa Susan Kerr

Francis Duong

Pratul Dublish

Alex Hopmann

David L Risney

Paula Julia Chuchro

Todd A Sahl

Charlie David Chase, Jr

Sean Gary Nordberg

Jonathan Garcia

Walter Von Koch

Dave Risney

Steve Strauch

Chris J Guzak

Warren Vincent Barkley

Richard Bruce Ward

Roberto Anthony Franco

Sterling M Reasor

John E Brezak

Eric R Flo

Deon Brewis

Andrew Peter Sinclair

Vivek Bhanu

Martin J Hall

Yinghua Yao

David Ruzyski

William N Hanlon

Jun Yin

Paul Baecke

Liwei Chen

Malik Mehdi Pradhan

Richa Prasad

Kun Cong

Matt Augustine

Daniel Hill

Nathan Novielli

Joshua T Stickler

Warren C Stevens

Yan Zhong

Wayne W Y Choi

Dheeraj Mehta

Meng Lu

Vishesh M Parikh

David Jones

Walter Vonkoch

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A digital assistant includes an extensibility client that interfaces with application extensions that are built by third-party developers so that various aspects of application user experiences, content, or features may be integrated into the digital assistant and rendered as native digital assistant experiences. Application extensions can use a variety of services provided from cloud-based and/or local sources such as language/vocabulary, user preferences, and context services that add intelligence and contextual relevance while enabling the extensions to plug in and operate seamlessly within the digital assistant context. Application extensions may also access and utilize general digital assistant functions, data structures, and libraries exposed by the services and implement application domain-specific context and behaviors using the programming features captured in the extension. Such extensibility to third party applications can broaden the scope of the database of information that the digital assistant may use to answer questions and perform actions for the user.

Digital assistant extensibility to third party applications

Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to improve the perceived responsiveness of a search engine. As a user types a query prefix into a browser or other interface to the search engine, the search engine returns query completion suggestions to the browser. The query completion suggestions, user history, user favorites and/or other information are presented to a trained machine learning model on the client device to predict a desired location that the user is attempting to navigate to. When the confidence level of the predicted location surpasses a threshold, content from the desired location is preloaded into a hidden tab in the browser. When the user submits a query, the browser submits feedback to a system responsible for updating and refining the machine learning model. Updated machine learning model coefficients can be received by the browser from the system to make predictions more accurate.

Machine learning model to preload search results

Various embodiments utilize context positioning of an input mechanism to convey at least one action associated with the input mechanism. At times, the input mechanism is associated with multiple actions. Input received via at the input mechanism can be analyzed to determine which action of the multiple actions to perform. In some embodiments, the input mechanism can be physically and/or visually moved to a different location based upon the determined action.

Contextual browser frame and entry box placement

Techniques for extension interaction with applications are described. Generally, an extension represents functionality for extending, modifying, customizing, and/or supplementing native functionality of an application. Techniques discussed herein provide a common extension platform that enables an extension to interact with multiple different applications utilizing components of the platform. The common extension platform, for instance, exposes a set of common extension application programming interfaces (APIs) that provide a common interaction surface between extensions and applications.

Extension configuration and interaction

Systems, methods and computer program products are described that enable a web browser to automatically determine that a user thereof is logged into an enterprise network and, based on at least this determination, present the user with a new tab page or similar interface that includes features that facilitate access by the user to enterprise-related content. The enterprise-related content may include, for example, enterprise-related web sites, content shared by colleagues, content trending among team members, documents that the user recently worked on, enterprise-related news, and industry-related news. In response to determining that the user is logged into the enterprise network, embodiments described herein also enable the web browser to present recommended information resources to the user, wherein the recommended information resources may include information resources that are accessible internally with respect to the enterprise network as well as information resources that are accessible externally with respect to the enterprise network.

Browser new tab page generation for enterprise environments

A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like. Further, in at least some embodiments, a user can subscribe to a particular web feed, be provided with a user interface that contains distinct indicia to identify new feeds, and can efficiently consume or read RSS feeds using both an RSS reader and a web browser.

Finding and consuming web subscriptions in a web browser

A service maintains information regarding one or more aspects of Web content, such as Web pages, that can be accessed by a computing device. The same service or a different service (e.g., a digital assistant) also maintains information regarding the user of the computing device. When a user navigates to Web content using a Web application, such as a Web browser, the services are accessed to obtain information regarding the Web content navigated to, information regarding the user, and/or user selectable tasks or actions. The Web application displays the obtained information to the user along with the Web content. The Web application displays the obtained information without altering the obtained Web content. Optionally, the Web application displays an indication that additional information regarding the Web content is available, and displays the obtained information (e.g., automatically or in response to receiving a user input request to display that additional information).

Web application retrieval and display of web content based information with web content

Extension interaction with applications

A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like.

Content syndication platform

Various embodiments provide a service platform that integrates services, such as web services and/or local services, across a variety of applications. In at least some embodiments, services can be integrated with legacy applications that are 'unaware' of such services, as well as applications that are aware of such services.

Service platform for in-context results

An application provides a search box that is configured to enable a user to enter searchable text. The application provides a quick pick search provider menu that is configured to include different sections that provide suggestions as text is entered into the search box. At least some of the suggestions are locally maintained, and at least some other of the suggestions are received from one or more remote search providers. In some embodiments, the application can comprise a web browser.

Switching search providers within an application search box

Various embodiments provide a unified discovery control that can be incorporated as part of a web browser. The unified discovery control provides a central location that describes various services that a website has to offer. In addition, the unified discovery control can allow the user to interact with the individual services that the website has to offer as by providing the user with the ability to add, update, uninstall and/or otherwise manage the various services that are described in the unified discovery control. Thus, the unified discovery control provides a centralized management system that provides the user with a common, predictable and repeatable user experience for interacting with various services that a website can offer.

Unifying discoverability of a website's services

Platform for extension interaction with applications

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