Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Shalendra Chhabra

Jason Thomas Faulkner

Eric Randall Sexauer

Gregory P Baribault

Amit Kumar Agarwal

Zoltan Romocsa

Rishi Girish

Skyler Michael Anderson

Tomas Bergl

Mykola Denysiuk

Michael J Shelton

Andrii Matukhno

Halley Weitzman

Mikhail Raer

A system provides automated transitions between presenters of a communication session. During a meeting, a system can provide a user interface that includes a primary presenter region configured to display a rendering of a presenter and the presenter's shared content. The user interface can also provide an audience region, which may include a number of individual video streams of audience members arranged in virtual environment. When the system determines that an individual audience member raises their hand, the system generates a graphical notification indicating that the person raised their hand. The system can also automatically add that individual audience member to a presenter queue. When the first presenter completes their presentation, the system can automatically transition the user listed in the presenter queue to the primary presenter region or a secondary presenter region. The system can also automatically change permissions for users that initiate a transition to a presenter role.

Automated UI and permission transitions between presenters of a communication session

The techniques disclosed herein provide a system that generates a summary for a communication session. A topic for a summary can be selected in response to detection of a high priority source of information. For instance, if a user's manager makes a comment during a meeting, that comment can be interpreted and selected as a topic for a summary. The system can select such content based on a user's relationship with a source. Information provided by teammates or a manager or other entities having a threshold level of relevancy can be indicated as a high-priority topic for a summary. The system improves the user's interaction with a computer by providing an adaptable summaries of information. The adaptable summaries allow users to readily identify topics, content sources, and high-priority content for meetings.

Dynamically generated summaries with adaptive associations between participants of a communication session

The techniques disclosed herein improve existing systems by providing a system that receives a settings profile associated with a first application. The settings profile is stored. When it is determined that a second application has unconfigured settings, the stored settings profile is accessed and based on the stored settings profile, the unconfigured settings are automatically configured.

Automatic enrollment and intelligent assignment of settings

The techniques disclosed herein improve existing systems by providing a system that automatically generates a scalable summary with adaptable graphical associations between people and content. The system can select a level of detail that can be applied to a process for generating a summary of content. The level of detail can be based on a user's engagement with respect to one or more events. The system can improve the usability of the summary by selecting a level of detail that is optimized for the user's contextual status. The system also improves the user's interaction with a computer by providing an adaptable layout of information indicating a source of content. The adaptable layout allows users to readily identify topics, content sources, and high-priority summary sections regardless of the level of detail that is selected for the summary.

Dynamically scalable summaries with adaptive graphical associations between people and content

The techniques disclosed herein improve existing systems by automatically identifying tasks from a number of different types of user activity and providing suggestions for the tasks to one or more selected delivery mechanisms. A system compiles the tasks and pushes each task to a personalized task list of a user. The delivery of each task may be based on any suitable user activity, which may include communication between one or more users or a user's interaction with a particular file or a system. The system can identify timelines, performance parameters, and other related contextual data associated with the task. The system can identify a delivery schedule for the task to optimize the effectiveness of the delivery of the task. The system can also provide smart notifications. When a task conflicts with a person's calendar, the system can resolve scheduling conflicts based on priorities of a calendar event.

Adaptive task communication based on automated learning and contextual analysis of user activity

An application with self-configuring accessibility settings is described. The application is configured to interact with an operating system of a computing device upon which the application is executing to obtain information relating to one or more user-configurable accessibility settings of the operating system. Such interaction may occur via an application programming interface exposed by the operating system. Based on the information obtained from the operating system, the application then determines one or more accessibility settings of the application, which may include identifying the one or more accessibility settings of the application based on a correspondence to the one or more accessibility settings of the operating system. The application then applies the one or more application accessibility settings either automatically or after obtaining user approval.

Application with self-configuring accessibility settings

The techniques provided herein improve existing systems by automatically generating summaries of a document in response to a user input that defines selected segments of a document. The document can include any type of content such as, but not limited to, channel conversations, chat threads, transcripts, word processing documents, spreadsheets, etc. As the user indicates a selection of segments, a system can dynamically update a summary of the segments to inform a user of salient information that is shared in the selected segments. A summary can include a text description of the information having a threshold priority level. A system can analyze documents that are referenced within the selected segments and provide summaries of the documents. The techniques disclosed herein also provide a number of graphical elements that communicate additional context of each part of the summary.

Intelligent summaries based on automated learning and contextual analysis of a user input

Intelligent task suggestions based on automated learning and contextual analysis of user activity

A context-aware transcription system includes a language model preparation service that retrieves meeting-specific data prior to or during a meeting. The language model preparation service utilizes the meeting-specific data to generate a meeting-specific statistical language model. A speech transcription service can utilize the meeting-specific statistical language model to generate a transcription of audio generated by attendees of a meeting. The system can transmit the transcription to computing devices associated with meeting attendees during the meeting for presentation in a user interface in real time. The language model preparation service can generate the meeting-specific statistical language model in response to receiving a pre-meeting signal. The pre-meeting signal can be generated a predetermined time prior to meetings according to a schedule. The pre-meeting signal might also, or alternately, be generated in response to the receipt of meeting change event notifications before or during meetings that describe changes to the meetings.

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