Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yaniv Feinberg

Yung-Shin Lin

Shenghua Ye

Kieran Snyder

Ryan M Cavalcante

Dimiter Georgiev

Tarek Mahmoud Sayed

Gerardo Villarreal Guzman

Ramakrishna Pamarthi

Gerardo Vilarreal Guzman

Tzipi Butnaru

Antonio Alwan

Mohamed Anas Abbar

Athapan Arayasantiparb

Thiti Wang-Aryattawanich

Soohad Khoury

Tarek M M Sayed

Map service techniques are described. In an implementation, text is received from an application for processing by one or more linguistic services. Based on service properties of respective linguistic services that are relevant to the application, particular linguistic services are designated to be available for use by the application and one or more other linguistic services are obscured from the application. A communication is formed to communication the text to a designated linguistic service.

Map service

Script detection service techniques are described. In an implementation, a corpora of text is analyzed to determine which strings in the corpora of text are to be included in a targeted dictionary that is usable for language detection services. The targeted dictionary is populated with strings that are individually associated with a human language. The strings include individual text characters associated with values that correspond to a particular subset of values in a table that associates subsets of values with individual human writing systems.

Script detection service

Script detection service techniques are described. In an implementation, values representing individual text characters in a string of one or more text characters are identified to determine which human writing system is associated with the individual text characters. The values are compared to a table that associates subsets of values with individual human writing systems. The values are determined to be within a particular subset of values in the table that correspond to a particular human writing system. A particular human writing system is designated as associated with the string based on the values associated with the individual text characters in the string being within the particular subset of values that corresponds with the particular human writing system.

Map service techniques are described. In an implementation, one or more computer-readable media comprise instructions that are executable by a computer to recognize from text an action that is performable by a particular one of a plurality of webpages and parse a set of parameters from the text to be passed to the particular said webpage to cause the webpage to perform the action.

Language detection techniques are described. In implementation, a method comprises determining which human writing system is associated with text characters in a string based on values representing the text characters. When the values are associated with more than one human language, the string is compared with a targeted dictionary to identify a corresponding human language associated with the string. Linguistic services are designated to be available based on service properties of the linguistic services and based on the corresponding human language associated with the string.

Language detection service

Script detection service techniques are described. In an implementation, a determination is made as to which human writing system is associated with individual text characters in a string of one or more text characters based on values representing the individual text characters in the string. A particular human writing system is designated as associated with the string based on the values associated with the individual text characters in the string.

Language detection techniques are described. In implementation, a method comprises determining which human writing system is associated with text characters in a string based on values representing the text characters. When the values are associated with more than one human language, the string is compared with a targeted dictionary to identify a corresponding human language associated with the string.

Linguistic service platform techniques are described. In implementations, one or more computer-readable media comprise instructions that are executable by a computer to designate a linguistic service having a particular property responsive to an application program interface call specifying the property. Communication may be brokered between the linguistic service and the application so that communication occurs without the application directly communicating with the linguistic service.

Linguistic service platform

Methods and systems are provided for recursively backing up modified data files where only modified data files are backed up and that provide a user with an efficient way to determine which original files have been modified to allow the user to readily locate original files if the user is not satisfied with any modifications to the original files. A mirror memory structure is created, but only modified files are saved to the mirror memory structure and modified files bear the same names as original files to assist in easily locating original files.

Recursive file backup

Methods and systems are provided for recognizing names entered into a computer-generated document in the context of a plurality of spoken languages and for providing helpful actions to users upon the recognition of the entered names.

Methods and system for recognizing names in a computer-generated document and for providing helpful actions associated with recognized names

A multi-language jump bar system and methods for use in connection with a multi-language contact management computer software program. The jump bar system includes a plurality of user-selectable buttons which may be associated with alphanumeric characters from different languages through use of a character set in which each alphanumeric character is identified by a single, unique, numeric character code. The buttons enable rapid updating of displayed contact information from a contacts information database simultaneously storing contact information in multiple languages so that a user of the contact management computer software may more quickly locate contact information for a particular contact. A jump bar method enables assignment of character codes to buttons according to weights associated with each character code. Such weights may be based at least partially on the usage frequency of the alphanumeric characters associated with the character codes in their respective languages.

Multi-language jump bar system and methods

Methods and systems for rendering text in a multi-lingual environment are provided. Language context of entered text and user interface settings are used to determine a most appropriate rendering order and alignment for displayed text. If no reading order is specified for a given text selection, the text selection is scanned to determine whether properties of the text identify portions of the text as requiring one of two reading orders (left-to-right or right-to-left). If a reading order can be determined for a given portion of the text selection, that portion will be rendered according to the determined reading order, such that the rendered text selection may have portions rendered according to a first reading order and portions rendered according to a second reading order. If no determination can be made by analysis of the text selection, a reading order is returned for the text selection that is associated with the spoken language utilized by the user interface with which the text selection is rendered. The text selection is aligned to the right or to the left based on user selection if available. In the absence of user alignment selection, the text selection is aligned according to an alignment associated with the spoken language utilized by the user interface with which the text selection is rendered.

Display of text in a multi-lingual environment

A calendar display, method and system are disclosed that can provide a calendar display showing a period of one or more days and simultaneously showing information for the days in the display period in more than one calendar system. The calendar system displays calendar data in calendar display based on a primary calendar system. The calendar system also calculates and displays information in a second calendar system so the user is simultaneously provided with information the primary and secondary calendar systems.

Simultaneous display of multiple calendar systems

A method and system are provided for locating specific text in a selection of text and ensuring that the specific text is rendered in the proper order relative to other text in the selection of text according to the text rendering rules of the language to which that text belongs. Previously typed text belonging to a language, such as Hebrew, requiring text to be rendered according to bi-directional text rendering rules is scanned to detect characters or strings or characters that need to be ordered according to a specific configuration, such as left-to-right reading order. Once such text is detected, that text is marked and rendered or displayed in the specific configuration, for example, left-to-right reading order, regardless of the reading order of the surrounding text.

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