Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Taili Feng

Rolf Arnold Ebeling

Shikha Devesh Desai

Ruth Kikin-Gil

Paul Anthony Scudieri

Alan Andrew Urdan

Yu Mao

Annice Jumani

YuBeen Lee

Alicia Drummond

Stephanie Cooper

Harold S Gomez

Chad B Rothschiller

Douglas Lane Milvaney

Denys Krut

Gary Caldwell

Jonathan Seth Kaufthal

Jonathan D Esterly

Manoj Sharma

Suzan Marashi

Julie Christa Seto

Charles Scott Walker

Derik Bjorn Stenerson

Manish Kumar Shukla

Sung Joon Won

Andrew W Harris

Edward Augustus Layne, Jr

Eugene Y Suh

Erin M O'Connell

Patrick Davis

Travis Spomer

Navneet Singh Kambo

Zachary Burstain

Linnea Smolentzov

Daniel Edward Fairweather

Sophie I Vennix

Hoi Mei Wong

Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe creation and management of a contact associated with a document. A contact for a document in a first application may be created. The contact may be used to add content, from a second application, to the document. The contact may be stored. Contact data for the contact may be transmitted to one or more processing devices. An exemplary created contact may be used to transfer content from one or more applications to a document of another application. Other examples are also described.

Contact creation and utilization

A computer system tracks and analyzes activity data, notifications, and user interactions with activity data and notifications. By analyzing this information, the computer system can identify, for individual users and across a set of users, which activity data and notifications are most relevant. Such activity data and notifications are most relevant when they result in the end user having further user interaction through the electronic document. The information about the relevance of the activity data and notifications can be used for managing sending of notifications and presenting activity data in end user applications.

Managing notifications related to collaboratively edited electronic documents based on user roles

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for creating a file activity feed for display on a user interface of a client computing device. In one aspect, data comprising a plurality of activities associated with a file may be obtained. Two or more activities from the plurality of activities may be grouped into a single module of work for display within the file activity feed. The file activity feed may be displayed on the user interface of the client computing device. In some cases, the file activity feed includes one or more file activity elements including at least the single module of work. In some cases, the file activity feed includes a filter icon and a query feature. The filter icon may provide one or more filter preferences for filtering the file activity feed. The query feature may facilitate querying the file activity feed.

File activity feed for smartly grouping activities into distinct modules

Aspects of a system for automatically managing a pane in a user interface on a small form factor computing device include an adaptive pane module for determining when an event that affects the canvas size occurs, such as changing the display configuration or reorienting the display, which in turn affects pane management, or the opening or closing of a pane. The adaptive pane module manages the pane. After managing the pane, the system resizes the canvas and reflows the content as appropriate for a small form factor computing device.

Adaptive user interface pane objects

Collaboration cards are provided to enable people to collaborate and receive instant replies to comments or questions from anywhere in a collaboratively generated document. A collaborator may add somebody's name to a collaboration card and ask that person for information, for example. That person may receive the question/comment via an email, a text message, a posting, or comparable communication methods, and respond back with the requested information through the same communication channel or another communication channel. The replied content may be placed into the collaboration card created in the document, and the original sender may be enabled to accept a change to the document content based on the collaboration card.

Collaboration cards for communication related to a collaborated document

Display screen with icons

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

Display screen with transitional graphical user interface

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