Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Tali Roth

Malia Morioka Douglas

Justin B Mahood

Aditi Desai

Zeyad Rajabi

Scott M Stiles

Janet L Schorr

Michael Anthony Affronti

Matthew James Wood

Ryan Edward Gregg

Robin Winter Troy

Ethan Joseph Bernstein

Patrick Tousignant

Joe Keng Yap

Gurashish Brar

Matthew D Wood

Dmitri Gavrilov

Umut Alev

Fernando Garcia

David De La Brena

Vamsi Kanamaluru

Mike Borysenko

Jonathan Lecroy

Victor Wang

Rajesh Ramanathan

Andrew Grey Carlson

Michael Francis Palermiti, Ii

Mark Sunderland

Brian T Hill

Andrew M Himberger

Charles Duze

Giselli Panontini DeSouza Sana

Rafael Barcelos

Yuan Wei

Jodie P B Draper

Jared Ivey

Wayne Sun

Jodie Draper

Miles Cole Fitzgerald

Linda Chen

Ned Bearer Friend

Amund Kronen Johansen

Andrew K Bishop

Nithya Ramkumar

Robert Orleth

Mikael P Horal

Oliver Zheng

Robert Juan Miller

Bernt Ivar Olsen

Albert Leon Ting

David De La Brena Valderrama

James Leung

Timothy J Lytle

Emil G Antonov

Selva Nalliah

Robin Troy

Scott Stiles

Rafael Ferreira Barcelos

Ryan Gregg

Jodie Draper Boyer

Ryan E Gregg

Andrew Bishop

Linda R Chen

A method for proactively providing information to a user about an event involving the user includes receiving user input indicating a request to display a search page and displaying the search page in response to the user input. In addition, event information may be automatically obtained and displayed on the search page in response to the user input. Some examples of event information that may be provided include participant information about a participant in the event other than the user, file information about a file that is relevant to the event, and conversation information about a conversation that is relevant to the event.

Proactively displaying relevant information related to an event on a search page

When a user is responding to a message in a thread and a new response message is detected for the thread, the user's response is automatically re-parented so the user's response is sent as a response to the newly detected response message in the thread.

Dynamically re-parenting email messages based on updated conversations

Techniques are described herein for normalizing the recipient style of electronic messages while preserving the discernible intent of the sender. Given an electronic message or series of messages with varying visual styles applied to message text and other content, the electronic message may be transformed with a normalized and consistent formatting style that is more pleasing to the recipient, while preserving the sender's discernible intent in stylizing the message.

Normalizing message style while preserving intent

Relevance based dynamic navigation is provided. A communication application searches communications to identify hashtags associated with the communications. A relevance score is computed for each hashtag based on a relevance criteria associated with the hashtags. The hashtags are ranked based on the relevance score. Next, the ranked hashtags are presented in a navigation user interface.

Providing relevance based dynamic hashtag navigation

A message related to a first thread is received, and a fork in the conversation is identified. The received message is placed in a second thread and a display shows the fork and that the two threads are related.

Identifying relationships between message threads

A cloud service stores and aggregates content that is obtained from different content sources using different protocols. For example, the content may include electronic messages, calendar information, contacts, social network content, feed data, search results, and the like. The cloud service aggregates content for each user based on the user's configuration settings. The cloud service may perform processing on the aggregated content before it is delivered and displayed to the user on the client device. For example, one or more views may be generated and stored by the cloud service before the view is requested from the client. Changes made to the aggregated content on the client may be synchronized with the content source. Searches may be made across all or a portion of the different content sources that are aggregated for a user.

Aggregating content from different content sources at a cloud service

Techniques for an electronic montage system are described. An apparatus may comprise a logic device arranged to execute a montage application comprising an authoring component operative to provide a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles, receive control directives to associate content files with presentation tiles, generate tile objects for the content files based on content file types for the content files, and store the presentation surface and tile objects as a montage. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for electronic aggregation of information

Technologies are described for chronological re-ordering of transmitted conversation components. A message transmitting a message chain in the conversation through a forward or reply action, or addition of a new participant may be kept at the top and the remainder of messages may be re-ordered in chronological order. In some examples, the displayed properties (metadata) or header information may be normalized, that is displayed in a consistent manner. In other examples, flat header information (textual data) may be analyzed and enriched. Thus, the header information may be presented with interactive features such as presence information, calendar presentation, and comparable ones.

Conversation enrichment through component re-order

When a message is received, the recipient set in the message, as well as ancestor message identifiers, are analyzed. The received message is either placed in an existing thread in an existing conversation, or in a new thread in the conversation, based upon the analysis of the recipient set and the ancestor identifiers.

Deriving atomic communication threads from independently addressable messages

Technologies are described for modification of conversation presentation for enhanced user experience. Parts of the conversation may be detected and analyzed for their properties such as who sent a message, who received, when, was anyone left out from or added to the conversation, etc. The extracted properties and analyzed information may then be used to reverse a chronological order of the conversation and present it using interactive features such as collapsing and expanding parts of the presented information, providing a summary, removing unnecessary content, and comparable features.

Conversation modification for enhanced user interaction

Creating notes related to communications may be provided. In some examples, an application, such as a communication management application, may display the communications. The communication management may detect an input to generate a note related to a communication and may provide a note interface to capture the note. The note may be captured on the note interface. The note may be saved as a related communication associated with the communication. The communication management application may display the related communication.

Creating notes related to communications

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