Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Taylor Lehman

Kim Pascal Pimmel

Ranjib Singh Badh

Long Zhou

Vincent Y Celie

John Saxon Morrow

Jiashi Zhang

Michael Farnsworth

Xerxes Beharry

Shrivaths Iyengar

A gaze target is recognized via an eye tracking camera. An application launcher is displayed, via a display, at the gaze target based on a user trigger. The application launcher presents a plurality of applications selectable for launching. A user selection of one of the plurality of applications is recognized. The application launcher is replaced with the selected one of the plurality of applications at the gaze target via the display.

Gaze target application launcher

Systems and techniques of providing suggestions for email recipients to a user who is composing an email communications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user may register a plurality of email accounts with an email application. Once an email account is registered with the email application, contact data from each such registered email account may be received. In another embodiment, if the user employs a plurality of devices from which the user composes and/or sends email communications, device-specific contact information may also be received. Relevance metrics may be applied to such suggestions depending upon the contact data received from the various email accounts. Dynamic correction factor may be applied to such relevance metrics&#x2014;e.g., a decay factor, decrement factor or the like that may or may not be time dependent.

Systems and methods of automatically ordering and selecting recipients for electronic mail

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Taylor Lehman