Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Shivakumar Seetharaman

Selvaraj Nalliah

Salman Zafar

Joseph T Flint

Juan Vicente Esteve Balducci

Michael K Higashi

John Allen Atwood

Gregory Bolles

David Paul Limont

Alexandru Leconiuc

Patrick Tousignant

Michael Anthony Faoro

Jason Andrew Cook

Vanessa C Feliberti

Kevin Daniel Resnick

Danilo Landucci Benzatti

Andrew Winslow Brough

Yeelin Tan

Gustavo Varo

Henry L Sanders

Victor Boctor

Arvind M Murching

Rajesh Sundaram

Anish Desai

Jayteerth Narasingrao Katti

Lei Yu

Eric B Stenson

George V Reilly

Darrell Brunsch

Nimeesh Patel

Jonathan Kent

Michael Hamler

Described are embodiments for displaying groups of communications, such as messages, as a conversation. Conversations are groups of communications that can be traced back as related to an original communication. The embodiments allow a user to select a conversation mode for displaying communications, e.g., messages, as conversations. In response to the user's selection, embodiments provide for displaying a graphical element associated with a conversation. The graphical element can be selected to display the messages associated with the conversation. Additionally, embodiments provide for selecting a conversation and applying actions to the conversation, resulting in the application of the action to the messages that are associated with the conversation.

Communications grouped as conversations

A connector surfaces a configuration user experience that allows a user to select notifications that a user wishes to receive from a service. The user's e-mail system has a URL endpoint identifier, and the service sends the selected notifications to the URL endpoint. The notifications are integrated into the user's inbox, as e-mail messages.

Service integration into electronic mail inbox

A method for accessing offline voicemail messages within a mobile messaging application may be provided. First, a voice mail message may be received and the voicemail message may be transcribed to text. Next, the voicemail message and the text transcription may be stored. The recipient may then be presented with a list of voicemail messages and the voicemail message may be retrieved in response to the recipient. The recipient may read or listen to the voicemail message or both. The recipient may also annotate the voicemail message.

Offline voicemail

Techniques to apply and share remote policies on personal devices are described. In an embodiment, a technique includes contacting an enterprise server from an enterprise application operating on a personal device. The enterprise application may receive policies from the enterprise server. The policies may be applied to the enterprise application. When a second enterprise application on the personal device is launched, the policies may also be applied to the second enterprise application. When a policy is changed on the enterprise server, notification is pushed to the personal device and all related enterprise applications on the personal device may be updated to enforce the policy change. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to apply and share remote policies on mobile devices

Enhanced input field features and techniques for displaying and resolving location information in meeting items are provided. In response to a user's interaction with a place name displayed in the location field of a user interface for a meeting item, up to date information is retrieved about the location associated with the place name from a web service and displayed. The display can include a map image tile. In addition to enabling the displaying of up to date information, during creation of the meeting item, the location input field of a meeting item can present location suggestions from within the location input field, for example, as a drop-down listing of possible locations. The suggestions for completing a user's input text string to the location input field can be obtained from sources such as a web service, a mailbox, a managed database/directory service, a history cache/database or a combination thereof.

Location context, supplemental information, and suggestions for meeting locations

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Shivakumar Seetharaman