Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Thomas Constantin

Suzan Marashi

Elena Catrinescu

Sebastian De La Chica

Ilya David Gorelik

Lydia Johanna Utkin

Gil Shulman

Christopher Andrews Jung

Ming Wu

Ragavenderan Venkatesan

Matthew Sledge Epstein

TszYan C Zogg

Zhiguo Yu

Lutfi Ilke Kaya

Systems and methods are provided for automatically determining an intent of a user based on an intent model to attach a file to a document, prompting the user to confirm the intent using a predetermined character in an inline nudge, generating and displaying an inline menu with an interactive list of ranked files as a suggestion for attachment. The disclosed technology uses the intent for specifying a scope of the inline search. The intent model for attaching content maintained by third-party applications uses a combination of an embeddings model and an N-gram model with limited seed queries and determines the intent based on intent scores associated with respective third-party applications. The present disclosure ranks respective candidate content based on a degree of relevance to the intent. The user selects one or more content from the list for attaching to the document.

Inline search based on intent-detection

A method for facilitating focused use of an email client includes entering an inbox pause mode and pausing display of at least some new email messages and email notifications while in the inbox pause mode. The method also includes detecting, while in the inbox pause mode, a selection by a user of a previously received email message that was received prior to entering the inbox pause mode. The method also includes displaying, while in the inbox pause mode, information about a subsequently received email message that is received subsequent to entering the inbox pause mode and that belongs to a conversation comprising the previously received email message.

Inbox pause mode to facilitate focused use of an email client

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Thomas Constantin