Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Tom Laird-McConnell

Steve Ickman

Lili Cheng

Amit Gupta

Matthew Bret MacLaurin

Naresh Sundaram

Johannes Gehrke

Craig Jensen

Sangya Singh

Will Portnoy

Christopher Clayton McConnell

Steven Wayne Ickman

Cezary Antoni Marcjan

William L Portnoy

David Raskino

Richard Ignacio Zaragoza

Bradley Phillip Gibson

Brandon H Paddock

James H Lewallen

Dale Rogerson

Giselli Panontini DeSouza Sana

Wenlong Dong

J Shane McRoberts

Richard Daniel Marshall

Giselli Panontini Desouza Sana

Amit Rai

Kipper York

Scott Whalley

Communication services enable users to communicate electronically using various modes of communication. Conversations between groups of users, are common, where emails, other communications, and data are exchanged repeatedly over a period of time. Provision of tags in communication environments may enable the users to organize, search for, and share content of the conversations more efficiently, improving communication and collaboration among the users. For example, a tag module of a communication service may associate a communication with one or more tags such that the tags are persisted with the communication as the communication is exchanged, and transmit the communication to participants of the conversation. The tag module may also provide automatic classification, suggestion, and/or completion of the tags. The tags may be displayed in conjunction with the communication through communication user experiences associated with the participants, where the participants may interact with the tags for search and organization purposes.

Tags in communication environments

Communication services enable users to communicate electronically using various modes of communication. Conversations between groups of users are common, where emails, other communications, and data are exchanged repeatedly over a period of time. Provision of tags in communication environments may enable the users to organize, search for, and share content of the conversations more efficiently, improving communication and collaboration among the users. For example, a tag module of a communication service may associate a communication with one or more tags such that the tags are persisted with the communication as the communication is exchanged, and transmit the communication to participants of the conversation. The tag module may also provide automatic classification, suggestion, and/or completion of the tags. The tags may be displayed in conjunction with the communication through communication user experiences associated with the participants, where the participants may interact with the tags for search and organization purposes.

A 'Remotable Contract Implementation', as described herein, provides various techniques for implementing static type checking of remoted contracts across iframes using scripts such as TypeScript, JavaScript, AJAX, etc., thereby enabling structured data and rich patterns of control flow across iframe boundaries. The Remotable Contract Implementation enables the static type-checking over the limited browser postMessage channel of communication across iframes, by generating statically type-checked proxies at runtime based on dynamic reflection, and allowing for full fidelity of JavaScript control flow interactions (e.g. methods, events, asynchronous communications, etc.) over that channel. Further, in various embodiments, the Remotable Contract Implementation provides various methods that can be used to produce useful application context for otherwise isolated applications by providing access to particular browser resources or information that would otherwise be unavailable over the postMessage communication channel using conventional scripting techniques.

Remotable contracts for the web

Various technologies pertaining to generation of a client collage are described herein. A creator can construct a computer-implemented collage by selecting a plurality of computer-implemented objects from a respective plurality of network-accessible storage locations, and arranging the computer-implemented objects in a desired manner. Responsive to receiving an indication that the computer-implemented collage is suitable for publication, a server can render the collage and capture a backdrop image of the rendered collage. The server can further generate metadata that are packaged with the backdrop image as a client collage. When a client computing device requests the collage, the client collage is provided to the client computing device, which renders the backdrop image and processes the metadata. The metadata causes a click overlay to be placed upon the backdrop image, wherein functionality of the click overlay is defined by the metadata.

Generating a collage for rendering on a client computing device

A dynamic digital montage system assists a user in creating and publishing a montage about one or more specified topics. The system receives an identification of one or more topics of interest from the user, and based on the subject information, collects data from dynamic and static data sources for display in dedicated sections of a montage. The data is presented in one of a number of predefined but editable layouts for presentation to a user. In one implementation, at least one of the montage components is associated with a dynamic data source and is updated when new data is provided by the dynamic data source. In another implementation, the data sources attached to the montage components are analyzed on a periodic basis, and based on the analysis, data source assignments and/or the montage layout is revised.

Dynamic digital montage

A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a computing event with respect to a file stored in a data repository of a personal computing device. An assignor component automatically assigns a uniform resource identifier to the file responsive to the receiver component receiving the computing event with respect to the file, wherein at least a portion of content of the file is reviewable by way of a web browser through utilization of the uniform resource identifier.

Sharing files on a computer through use of URIs

The described implementations relate to email messages. One technique detects a link to a web-site in an email message. The technique causes content from the web-site to be visualized on a common display area with the email message for a recipient of the email message.

Email messages

Computer-readable media, systems, and methods for enabling a rich client search experience. In embodiments, a description is received from a data store. The description includes fields of information existing on the data store that are capable of being searched. A user interface is built based on the description and the user interface provides a user with a mechanism for searching the data store. And the user interface is presented to the user. The description is definable by the data store using a data-driven extension, allowing the data store to express schema and query capability information to a client and allowing the client to dynamically customize the user interface based upon the schema and query capability information expressed by the data store.

Rich client search experience

Computer assistance content related to a plurality of software entities is combined into a single assistance content corpus. The corpus may be organized hierarchically. The hierarchical organization can be done using content sets that relate assistance content with associated metadata. Content sets can be related to each other in parent-child relationships. The relationship definitions can be separate from the content set definitions. Scope and bias information can be used to constrain assistance content searching over the corpus and to bias search results based on one or more state variables of the user's computer. A remote assistance server can be used to provide updated or newer assistance content to the user. When the remote assistance server is used, an assistance request from the user is supplemented with scope information.

Computerized assistance content organization, scoping and bias

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Tom Laird-McConnell