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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2014
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Jonathan S. Kaufthal, Seattle, WA (US);
Maya Rodrig, Seattle, WA (US);
Amani Ahmed Dye, Bothell, WA (US);
Erez Kikin-Gil, Bellevue, WA (US);
Charles Scott Walker, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Progressive functionality command and object access for object and other content insertion and modification are provided. In a software application user interface, when a given command is selected, where the command is a parent command having one or more child commands, a subset of all available child commands under the selected parent command may be provided in the user interface in proximity to the selected parent command. If a user needs more or different commands than are presented in the subset, a contextual pane may be selectively presented in the user interface having a number of additional available commands for selection by the user. Once the contextual pane is displayed, it may stay displayed until it is manually or automatically dismissed.