Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yung-Cheng Chen

Jeffrey Kevin Feiereisen

Joseph McLaughlin

Kenneth Fern

Michael Anthony Faoro

Poonam Ganesh Hattangady

Ryan Thomas Murphy

Kutlay Topatan

Chao-Chung Lin

Eva Britta Karolina Burlin

Michael R Gow

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for implementing enhanced menu presentation technology. In at least one implementation, a user interface to a personal information service is presented by a suitable computing system. The user interface includes a viewing pane and an information panel in which various personal information items may be organized. In response to a selection of any of the personal information items for viewing, content associated with the item is presented in the viewing pane. In addition, in response to an identification of an action group that includes multiple ones of the personal information items, an action menu is presented in at least a portion of a space in the user interface occupied by the viewing pane.

Presentating action menus in viewing panes

Techniques for providing an in-place contextual menu and user interface for email and other information management system triage are provided in which a contextual menu can be overlaid or replace an item on a view screen. The contextual menu can provide action commands specific to the type and state of the items selected in the feature view of the email or other information management system. A single recognized selection input, such as a swipe gesture, selects an item and invokes an in-place contextual menu presenting actions that can be asserted on the selected item. Multiple item selection is available through the same invocation of presenting the in-place contextual menu.

In-place contextual menu for handling actions for a listing of items

Presenting action menus in viewing panes

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