Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

William J Bliss

Brian W MacDonald

Larry Jin

Scott A Thurlow

Pedro Dantas DeRose

Richard Taylor

David R Goodhand

Silvana Y Rimoli

Douglas E Stumberger

Eric I Horvitz

Suryanarayanan V Raman

David Charles Tuniman

Siunie A Sutjahjo

Dean J Hachamovitch

Siddharth Uppal

Erich S Finkelstein

Brian L Trenbeath

David C Franklin

Jerry R Hughson, Jr

Michael Lowell Roberts

Matthew Frederick Hillman

Kevin J Braun

Vilayanur Parameswaran Krishnan

Lois E Bauer

Daniel Ko

Eric N Huber

David R Dozier

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which utilize digital tracking tags attached to data to monitor and/or control the data as it moves between applications and/or computing devices. The digital tracking tag may be embedded in the data (e.g., as a digital watermark) or associated with the data e.g., as metadata. In some examples, the digital tracking tag may include an address of a tracking database with which to record one or more events related to the data. For example, recipients, senders, or other participants in a data transfer event may register the data transfer event with the tracking database.

Data provenance tracking service

Described herein is a user interface that enables messages within a collaborative workspace environment to be propagated to different workspaces that are associated with different tabs in the collaborative workspace environment. Thus, a comment made in a workspace associated with a first tab is reflected in a workspace associated with a different tab and vice versa.

Contextual conversations for a collaborative workspace environment

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to providing a cross-iframe solution for instructing embedded content to reuse current in-browser app instances but to load different content. In this manner, a new in-browser app instance does not have to be loaded each time a context switch is performed. More specifically, cross-iframe communications are used to instruct an existing in-browser app instance to load new content such as, for example, a new embedded document.

Re-homing embedded web content via cross-iframe signaling

A method and computer program product instituting an entirely client-based system for sharing messages and other data objects is provided. Communication between clients occurs over a generic store and forward transport such as the Internet message protocol described in RFC 822 and implemented on the Internet or other wide area network. A message or other data object is originally maintained by a &ldquo;publication&rdquo; client that publishes the data object and any modifications thereto to one or more &ldquo;subscription&rdquo; clients that will each maintain a copy thereof. As modifications are made by a client (either publication or subscription) to the client copy of the data object, the modified data object is sent, using the store and forward transport, to the publication client to update the data object. Once the data object is updated by the publication client, copies of the modified data object are sent using the store and forward transport to each subscription client so that the subscription client may update the subscription copy. One embodiment of the present invention designates a messaging folder containing one or more data objects as a publication folder (managed by a publication client) that is replicated out to subscription clients over the store and forward transport. The subscription clients each have a corresponding subscription folder wherein the subscription client copies of the data objects are maintained. Any modifications to the data objects are passed to the publication client for verification, replacement in the publication folder, and distribution out to each subscription client for replacement in the corresponding subscription folder. The addition of new data objects or the deletion of existing data objects are handled in like manner through the publication client.

Method, computer program product, and data structure for publishing a data object over a store and forward transport

A system and method for grouping and editing items directly on a display screen without accessing a dialog box. A box is displayed for grouping a plurality of items. These items are comprised of various fields of information. At least one field is selected for grouping the items. After the field is selected, the field is placed onto the box. The selected field is then displayed in the box. After the field is displayed in the box, the items are grouped by the selected field. After grouping the items by the selected field, the items are displayed as grouped by the selected field. The tasks are repeated for each field remaining if nesting of groups is desired. Items can be edited directly on the display screen by selecting an item from a first field group. The item is then moved to a second field group. As the item moves to the second field group, a message is displayed indicating the status of the item if the item is placed in the second field group. The item is then placed in the second field group. As a result of placing the item in the second field group, the item and fields are updated to reflect the new grouping status.

System and method for editing group information

Processing electronic messages by applying a rule representing a combination of additions, actions, or exceptions. A conditions window is displayed to present conditions upon which a rule for processing electronic messages cause an action to be taken. A condition can be selected in response to an input signal. In turn, an actions window is displayed to present actions that may be taken in response to the selected condition. An action is selected in response to receipt of an input signal. The actions window is updated to display the current state of the rule in a natural language format presented as a contiguous string of appended clauses corresponding to both the selected condition and the selected action. To create a rule including an exception, an exceptions window is displayed to present a list of exceptions associated with the selected condition. In response to receiving an input signal, an exception corresponding to the input signal is selected. Based on the selection of that exception, the exceptions window is updated to display the current state of the rule in a natural language format presented as a contiguous string of appended clauses corresponding to the selected condition, the selected action, and the selected exception.

System and method for processing electronic messages with rules

A system and method for creating a new destination data structure in memory populated with data from fields of an existing source data structure. A representation of the source is selected, dragged over, and dropped onto an icon representing a program module. The source and the program module are each associated with a type of data structure. If these types of data structures are different, then the destination is created in memory of the type associated with the program module. Once the destination is created, the data within the source is transformed to populate predetermined fields of the destination. One way of populating the destination is by determining which field in the destination corresponds to a given field in the source. Data from a given field of the source is loaded into the corresponding field of the destination. This is performed for each of the fields in the source, thus transferring the data into the destination from the source without having to manually re-enter or perform successive copy and paste operations on the data in the fields of the destination. Another way of populating the destination is by formatting data from each of the printable fields of the source into a predetermined rich text format to yield a formatted version of the source as if the source were being printed in one of the fields of the destination. The formatted data is then loaded into the field of the destination.

System and method for creating a new data structure in memory populated

In an electronic mail system environment, a system and method for automatically checking recipients' names, providing message flags, providing custom forms, and providing an autoresponse feature. Recipients' names are resolved in the background, while the user of the e-mail system is composing the message. The user easily resolves ambiguous names by using a context menu. The resolved ambiguous names are automatically used to create nicknames, which are used to resolve ambiguous names in the future. Message flags allow a sender or recipient to identify required follow-up action and a deadline. The recipient may use the message flags to quickly determine which messages require follow-up action. The e-mail system notifies a recipient when a due date is approaching or when a follow-up action is past due. A custom forms feature allows a user to create and share custom forms without requiring the form to be published or installed by other user. The custom form's attributes are transmitted to the recipient as an element of the e-mail message. An autoresponse feature allows a sender to create a message that includes voting buttons corresponding to the possible responses to a query. A recipient replies by selecting one of the voting buttons. The recipient's vote is automatically tallied in the sender's copy of the message, thus allowing the sender to view a vote tally, a list of the recipients, and their response.

System and method for resolving names in an electronic messaging

A desktop information manager includes a 'Rules Wizard' for creating and editing rules for processing electronic messages. The Rules Wizard allows creation of rules in a step-by-step manner by selecting natural language phrases representing conditions, actions, and exceptions. As rule components are selected by the user, the current rule is displayed in a natural language format. Variables are displayed as hypertext links. When the user specifies the value of a variable, the specified value is threaded back into the displayed rule. Templates and a rules from context feature expedite the construction of rules. Once created rules are stored on the client computer and possibly uploaded to the server in order to ensure efficient message processing.

System and method for creating, editing, and distributing rules for

System and method for directly manipulating fields for grouping items

A screen saver program is provided within a computer system. The screen saver program includes a note facility for generating notes. The notes facility includes a note-taker interface. The screen saver program is run on the computer system and in response to receiving input from a user, the note-taker interface is displayed on a video display of the computer system. In response to input by the user via the note-taker interface, a note is created. Subsequently, the screen saver program is dismissed and the note is displayed on the video display when the screen saver is dismissed.

Notes facility for receiving notes while the computer system is in a

Views and view controls are used to display and access data created from multiple applications. Namespaces, folders, items, views and view control objects are used to abstract the data type of the data, contained in items. Therefore, data can be displayed in multiple views and the same view can be used to display data independent of the data type. To display a view, a user selects a folder that contains items. A folder, item, view, and view control work together to define the fields and data to display and the format to display them. The user can generate many views by editing one view, thereby creating a new view. An edit interface is provided allowing the user to modify a view. Modifications include entering new data in a view, defining new fields, and entering calculations based on other data. A new view control can be installed by determining what information to pass, conforming to OLE standards and entering the view control in the operating system's database registry.

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Medina, WA, United States of America

William J Bliss