Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yue Ma

Justin Hamilton

Humberto Lezama Guadarrama

Philip Zhian Loh

Jia Guo

Jian Qiao Sun

Charles Cummins

Kun Wu

Fang Wen

Jonathan Seth Kaufthal

Maya Rodrig

Yamin Wang

Elena Catrinescu

Jin Ma

Jun Tse Chen

Brian Daniel Meersma

Kyle Patrick Curlett

XiaoWei Sheng

Amy Huyen Phuoc Nguyen

Santosh Kumar

Arnavi Mahendra Chheda

Ankur Lal

Barnabas Whitfield

Leeviana Peng Gray

Sathish Kumar Venkat Rangam

Andrei Zenkovitch

Luiz Gustavo Bustamante Magalhaes

Yan Zhong Leigh

Ming Wu

William Dean Saulnier

Cosmin Catrinescu

Hua Ding

Bing Lang

Ravin Sachdeva

Ashutosh Kumar

Betsy Yu-pui McIntyre

Yong Ni

Xuemin Liu

Izis De Melo Moreira

Fernando Ruben Martinez Ovelar

Jun Chen

Tania Albarghouthi

Zohaib Rauf

Jiuqing Song

Iuliana Chiriac

Justin David Hamilton

Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for enterprise search that leverage periodically updated user context of an enterprise user for intent understanding and treat a search session as a dialog between the user and a digital assistant to allow multi-modal interaction. For example, a query input by the user may be received from a client application having search functionality and an integrated assistant. A current state of the user context may be leveraged to understand the query. Based on the understanding, one or more responsive entities may be retrieved from an enterprise search index as results. Based on the results, a response may be generated that includes the results and a prompt to cause the user to further refine the query and/or provide feedback. The response may be provided to the client application for output as part of a search session dialog between the user and assistant.

User context-based enterprise search with multi-modal interaction

System and methods are directed to displaying interactive content with static content in a user interface of an application. More specifically, it may be determined that an interactive component is to be rendered in a user interface of a first application, where the user interface includes static content. In response to determining that the interactive component is it be rendered, at least one linking parameter may be determined for linking the interactive component with interactive content stored in a shared storage. Based on the at least one linking parameter, the interactive component may be rendered in the user interface of the first application in-line with the static content of the user interface of the first application. Changes to the interactive content made by a second user of a second application may then be updated within the interactive component rendered in the user interface of the first application.

Interactive components for user collaboration

A secure data path enables sending and receiving message applications to transmit instructions for recalling a sent message and updating or deleting content of the recalled message in an inbox of a recipient. In response to a recall request from the sending message application over the secure channel, since the receiving message application has access to a recipient inbox, the receiving message application may process the recall request to update and/or delete content of a received message—even after a recipient has read the received message. Since the content of a received message may be updated or deleted in a recipient inbox, robust and reliable message recall is provided.

Message recall and updating

A messaging system identifies a received message as a notification message from a conversation system in a media application. The messaging system obtains rendering information to render a current state of the conversation thread represented by the message. The message system renders the current state of the followed conversation thread, with actuators that provide interactive functionality allowing the user to interact with the conversation thread, in the message viewer of the user's messaging system.

Surfacing media conversations and interactive functionality within a message viewer of a messaging system

Computing systems configured to efficiently attach files to emails are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a mobile device can include a processor, a camera, and a memory operatively coupled to the processor. The memory contains instructions executable by the processor to cause the computing device to capture, via the camera, an image of a machine-readable label shown on a display of a client device used to compose a draft email and decode the captured image of the machine-readable label to derive a network address of a webpage, an authentication token, and an email identification identifying the draft email. The mobile device can also load the webpage in a web browser, and upon receiving an input to upload a file, transmit the digital file to an upload server along with the decoded authentication token and the email identification for attaching the file to the draft email.

Efficient attachment of files from mobile devices

Methods and systems for compiling image results into compilation images so that multiple image results may be downloaded via a single browser-download connection are provided. An image search request is received and a plurality of image results that satisfy the image search request are determined. At least a portion of the image results determined to satisfy the search request are dynamically stitched together to create a compilation image. Upon receiving an image download request for a satisfying image result, the compilation image is returned to the user's browser rather than a single thumbnail image. In this way, a plurality of image results is returned via a single browser-download connection and the latency in returning a large number of request-satisfying image results is decreased.

Dynamic image result stitching

Image search techniques are described. In one or more implementations, images in a search result are ordered based at least in part on similarity of the images, one to another. The search result having the ordered images is provided in response to a search request.

Method for searching and ranking images clustered based upon similar content

Accurate search results are provided while still honoring content limitations. Content responsive to search, whose presentation is prevented by content limitations is presented in an obscured manner, notifying the user of the existence of the content, while not enabling discerning of details, thereby honoring the content limitations. Attempted user interaction with obscured content acts as an entry point to changing the content limitations, including presenting user notifications of the content limitations and presenting an option to change the content limitations to allow for the unobscured presentation of the obscured content. Graphical content can be obscured by applying graphical modifications to generate new, obscured content that provides only a vague resemblance to the original, including jittering pixels, or other subcomponents, the applying of Gaussian blurs, and pixelization.

Accurate search results while honoring content limitations

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Yue Ma