Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Welly Sugiarto Lee

Dmitriy Meyerzon

Zheng Chen

Jun Yan

Lei Ji

Zhongyuan Wang

Nikita Voronkov

Tom Wunshe Tseng

Quanjie Lin

Paula A Wing

Reenu Sandhu

A computing system comprises, in one example, a display system, a user profile update system configured to update a user profile for a given user, a data extraction system configured to analyze a data source and to extract, from the data source, at least one work attribute associated with the given user, and a surfacing system. The surfacing system comprises a suggestion generator component configured to generate a user profile suggestion based on the at least one work attribute, and a display system controller configured to control the display system to generate a user interface display, with user input mechanisms, that displays the user profile suggestion and to detect a user interaction with the user input mechanisms. The user profile update system updates the user profile based on the detected user interaction.

Extracting and surfacing user work attributes from data sources

A user associates other users or content with a representation of a topic area, in a computing system. Profile associations between users and the topic areas are generated by detecting that users are associated with the topic areas, or that users have added content to the topic areas. User profile information is automatically updated based upon the profile associations generated.

Automatically relating content to people

A system for presenting help information relating to a user of a computer program based on context of the computer program is provided. The system receives an indication of a generic request and identifies the context of the computer program at the time of the request. The context may include information that is currently being displayed by the computer program and metadata relating to the user and the computer program. The system selects help information based on the context such that the selected help information varies based on information that is currently being displayed and the metadata. The system then presents the help information to the user.

Identifying help information based on application context

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