Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Vlad Riscutia

Maya Rodrig

Matthew Evan Vogel

Julie Christa Seto

Darron Jack Stepanich

Choon-mun Hooi

Jon Bell

Sunder Raman

Ramy Bebawy

Han-Yi Shaw

Scott David Hoogerwerf

Carlos Peza Ramirez

Derek Snook

John M Sanders

Erez Kikin Gil

Robert D Donner

David Gray

David John Brennan

Priya Vaidyanathan

Andrew James Peacock

Venkat Pradeep Chilakamarri

Amit Jain

Kiran Kumar Dowluru

Edward Augustus Layne, Jr

Harold E Beyel, Iii

Chase Thomas

Kimberly Shay Koenig

Swati Jain

Harish Kasina

Hongrui Zhang

Michael Anthony Navarro

Alexis Thomas Odell

Isaac James Pattis

Tao Lin

Gordan Kuvac

Claire H Sisson

Diego F Martinez Diaz

Meera A Kulkarni

Andrei Scripniciuc

Fnu Om Krishna

Axel Alejandro Gutierrez Olivo

Sinduja Ramanujam

Philip Rueker

Darron Stepanich

Carlos E Peza Ramirez

John R Sanders

David M Gray

Matthew Vogel

Andrew J Peacock

Julie Seto

Choon-Mun Hooi

Systems and methods for integrating a third-party service into a host application enable multiple modes of integration of the data from the third-party services into the host application. The multiple modes include a first mode of integration that involves a data connection to a third-party service, a second mode of integration that involves the use of third-party extensions that provide predefined user interface elements for interacting with the third-party service, and a third mode of integration that involves the use of an iFrame element in the host application for hosting the third-party service. The modes may be activated and switched from within the application so that the user does not have to leave the context of the application to interact with the third-party service.

Multi-mode in-context service integration

Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe an application command control user interface menu to facilitate user interaction between a user and a mobile application. An application command control menu is displayed on a display screen of a processing device. An input may be received into an application canvas of a launched application. The application canvas may be positioned above the application command control menu on the display screen. In response to a received input into the application canvas, a soft input keyboard application may be displayed. The soft input keyboard application may display below the application command control menu on the display screen. A selection may be received in the application command control menu. In response to the received selection, display of the application command control menu may be expanded to replace display on the soft input keyboard application on the display screen. Other examples are also described.

User interface for application command control

A knowledge graph stores connections among tables in a data set and queries used to extract information from the data set. The queries may be used to generate reports. The knowledge graph indicates which of the tables each query uses and indicates which of the queries is used by each table. The knowledge graph may also store schema for the tables and information describing the tables and the queries. A graph builder may generate the knowledge graph by crawling the data set and the queries and by using a query parser to determine the tables each query uses. The graph builder may automatically update the knowledge graph. The graph builder may detect data quality issues in a table of the data set. The graph builder may query the knowledge graph for the queries that use the table. The graph builder may associate notifications with the queries.

Knowledge graph-based lineage tracking

The present disclosure concerns automatically generating data retrieval queries. A system may include data residing on a first data store and a knowledge graph residing on a second data store. The knowledge graph may include a semantic model of the data. The knowledge graph may be structured differently than the data and may be stored in a format different from the data. The system may include a query builder that receives one or more inputs through a user interface. The user interface may be based in part on the knowledge graph. The one or more inputs may indicate a subset of the data. The query builder may retrieve metadata from the knowledge graph based on the one or more inputs. The query builder may then generate a query for retrieving the subset of the data using the one or more inputs and the metadata retrieved from the knowledge graph.

Generating data retrieval queries using a knowledge graph

A current user lifecycle phase and a desired outcome for a user for a current user lifecycle phase are identified. Messages eligible to be shown to the user are identified based upon the current user lifecycle phase for the user. From the eligible messages, particular messages can be selected for delivery to the user based upon one or more governance rules, user attributes, user activity, seasonality, and/or the desired outcome for the current user lifecycle phase for the user. The selected messages can then be shown to the user. In this manner, relevant messages can be presented to the relevant users at a relevant time.

Orchestrated message delivery

Technology is disclosed herein for license aggregation in a license data structure. In at least one implementation, program instructions stored on one or more computer readable storage media, when executed by a processing system, direct the processing system to at least, responsive to a launch of an application, create a license file request comprising a plurality of user identifications (IDs) and send the license file request to a licensing service. The processing system is further directed to obtain a single license file for the application from the licensing service, the license file comprising a user license defining features of the application to be enabled based on licenses pertaining to the plurality of user IDs. The processing system is further directed to enable the plurality of features of the application based on the user license, and initiate presentation of the application in accordance with the enabled plurality of features.

License data structure including license aggregation

Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe an application command control user interface menu to facilitate user interaction between a user and a mobile application. On a processing device, a mobile application is launched where the mobile application comprises an application command control user interface menu displayable within a defined display space of the mobile application. The application control user interface menu is displayed within the defined display space. A tab comprises one or more user interface elements for application command control. Input is received for selection of a tab of the application control user interface menu. In response to the received input, display of the application command control user interface menu is modified to display one or more tabs within the defined display space. Other examples are also described.

Application command control for smaller screen display

Examples of the present disclosure describe application command control for small screen display. When detecting a display width associated with a processing device is equal to or less than a threshold value, the processing device launches an application command control programmed for display on small screens. The application command control interfaces with an application and comprises a plurality of top-level palettes and a plurality of drill-in palettes programmed for the application. A top-level palette for the application is vertically scrollable and comprises a collection of rows comprising one or more selectable command elements. A row of the one or more command elements of the top-level palette comprises a drill-in feature that when selected presents a drill-in palette. A drill-in palette is vertically scrollable and comprises one or more rows of selectable command elements.

Application command control for small screen display

A method and system for providing educational content for use in a computing device to facilitate the training of users in new features across applications is disclosed. A package is delivered to a first application that includes a deep link to a specific feature available in a second application. When a triggering event occurs, the user may be invited to explore or use the feature and/or be automatically directed to the feature in the second application.

Cross-application feature linking and educational messaging

A system activates an application on a computing device based on a prior activation of an isolated counterpart application on the computing device. An application that is restricted from sharing a license with a counterpart application locally on the computing device is enabled to instead communicate with an application license manager to manage license data corresponding to the counterpart application. For example, when a license is obtained at the computing device for a container application, the application license manager may update license data in association with a native application so that a counterpart license can be obtained automatically by the native application, and vice versa. Thus, once a user has responded to an activation prompt for either one of the container application or the native application, whichever application the user has not manually activated will be automatically activated at the computing device based on communications with the application license manager.

Activation of an application based on prior activation of an isolated counterpart application

Implementations disclosed herein provide a targeted messaging service that interfaces with a targeted messaging client on a device. The targeted messaging service provides a user-specific package to the client that specifies which native controls to invoke in response to which triggering events, as well as the assets to deploy in the controls. The targeted messaging client, which runs in the context of the native application it is supporting, receives the package from the service and monitors for the events that trigger targeted messages. A targeted control is formed by an existing native control combined with a specific asset provided in the package. When a given event occurs, the targeted messaging client merges the asset with the native control and displays the resulting targeted control in a user interface to the application.

Service-driven dynamic user interface technology

A technique is described for efficiently detecting a wireless beacon signal emitted from a beacon-emitting mechanism, and thereby reducing consumption of power. The technique operates by selectively increasing detection activity when a detection event is likely to occur, and decreasing it otherwise. The technique leverages calendar information as one factor in determining when a detection event is likely to occur. The technique can also vary the detection activity based on location information (identifying the location of a user) and/or motion information (describing the motion of the user).

Detecting a wireless signal based on context

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to cross-application service-driven dynamic contextual messages. In one aspect, content is retrieved from a server computing device. The content may include at least one rule and at least one contextual message. The content retrieved from the server computing device may be stored. A dynamic background application may detect an action associated with a client application. In response to detecting the action associated with the client application, a contextual message may be identified from the at least one contextual message based on a rule from the at least one rule. The dynamic background application may display the identified contextual message within the client application.

Cross-application service-driven contextual messages

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Vlad Riscutia