Patent application number | Description | Published |
20140281867 | VIEWING EFFECTS OF PROPOSED CHANGE IN DOCUMENT BEFORE COMMITING CHANGE - A tweak and view mode may be used by a user to see an effect of a proposed change to a document before the change is committed to the document. The application may automatically navigate to different portions of the document and/or display different sections of the document. Instead of the user having to search for the portion of the document affected by the change, the changed portions are determined for the user. The portions may be automatically displayed to the user and/or the user may determine when to move to each different portion that changed as a result of the proposed change. The proposed change may be accepted/rejected by the user. For example, a User Interface (UI) element may be selected by the user to either accept the change or reject the change. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281868 | SEMANTIC ZOOM-BASED NAVIGATION OF DISPLAYED CONTENT - Semantic zoom based navigation may be used to navigate content, such as content related to spreadsheets. Different gestures (e.g. pinch/stretch, pan, swipe) may be used while navigating the content. For example, while viewing data from a particular sheet in a workbook a pinch gesture may be received that changes the displayed content to a thumbnail view showing thumbnails that each represent a different sheet within the workbook. A gesture may also be received to change a view of an object. For example, a user may perform a stretch gesture near an object (e.g. a chart, graph, . . . ) that changes the current view to a view showing underlying data for the object. A user may also perform a gesture (e.g. a stretch gesture) on a portion of a displayed object that changes the current view to a view showing the underlying data for a specific portion of the object. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281870 | DOCUMENT COLLABORATION AND NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES USING DIFFERENT NOTIFICATION MECHANISMS - Users may collaborate on a document and be notified of changes (e.g. comments, changes) made to the document using different notification methods. A comment may be added to the document from within the document and/or externally from the document. A comment may also be added to a comment stream (e.g. a thread of related comments). The different notification mechanisms may include mechanisms such as: Short Message Service (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), electronic mail, phone call, Instant Messaging (IM), social network post/message, toast message, live tile, and the like. A user may configure the desired notification methods. A newsfeed may display a feed of collaboration items that reflect comments/changes to the document. The user may select a displayed collaboration item from the newsfeed to access the document. A user may also respond (e.g. comment) to a notification that may be added as a comment in the document. | 09-18-2014 |
20150378600 | CONTEXT MENU UTILIZING A CONTEXT INDICATOR AND FLOATING MENU BAR - A context menu in an application user interface displays a context indicator in response to user interaction that places an insertion pointer or selects content in the application user interface. The context indicator is configured to invoke a floating menu having a set of contextual commands. The contextual commands of the floating menu include a parent command that is configured to open a submenu. The submenu includes a plurality of submenu commands associated with the parent command. The context menu displays a selectable button appended to the context indicator without presenting the underlying floating menu and submenu. The selectable button is configured to execute a predicted command that corresponds to one of a contextual command of the floating menu or a submenu command of the submenu. | 12-31-2015 |
20160026613 | PROCESSING IMAGE TO IDENTIFY OBJECT FOR INSERTION INTO DOCUMENT - An image is processed to identify an object for insertion into a document. The image is captured or retrieved from a data store. The image is processed to identify the object associated with a document type, within a portion of the image. The object types include a chart, a table, a shape, among others. The portion of the image is converted into the object. A control is provided to export the object into the document associated with the document type. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026616 | PRESENTING DATASET OF SPREADSHEET IN FORM BASED VIEW - A dataset of a spreadsheet is presented in a form based view. The dataset is detected in the spreadsheet. The dataset is configurable for presentation as a form. The dataset is converted into the form. Rows of the dataset are allocated as entries of the form. Cells of a row are allocated as elements of an entry. The form is presented in a form view. Controls are presented to provide an edit operation, a delete operation, a create operation, among others to allow interactivity with the dataset in the form. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026858 | IMAGE BASED SEARCH TO IDENTIFY OBJECTS IN DOCUMENTS - An image based search is provided to identify objects in documents. An image may be processed to identify an object within a portion of the image. The image is embedded within a document. Portion of the image is converted into the object. The object includes a chart, a table, among others. Searchable content associated with the object is detected. The object and the searchable content is provided for export. | 01-28-2016 |
20160132195 | APPLICATION COMMAND CONTROL FOR SMALLER SCREEN DISPLAY - Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe an application command control user interface menu to facilitate user interaction between a user and a mobile application. On a processing device, a mobile application is launched where the mobile application comprises an application command control user interface menu displayable within a defined display space of the mobile application. The application control user interface menu is displayed within the defined display space. A tab comprises one or more user interface elements for application command control. Input is received for selection of a tab of the application control user interface menu. In response to the received input, display of the application command control user interface menu is modified to display one or more tabs within the defined display space. Other examples are also described. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132203 | APPLICATION COMMAND CONTROL FOR SMALL SCREEN DISPLAY - Examples of the present disclosure describe application command control for small screen display. When detecting a display width associated with a processing device is equal to or less than a threshold value, the processing device launches an application command control programmed for display on small screens. The application command control interfaces with an application and comprises a plurality of top-level palettes and a plurality of drill-in palettes programmed for the application. A top-level palette for the application is vertically scrollable and comprises a collection of rows comprising one or more selectable command elements. A row of the one or more command elements of the top-level palette comprises a drill-in feature that when selected presents a drill-in palette. A drill-in palette is vertically scrollable and comprises one or more rows of selectable command elements. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132234 | USER INTERFACE FOR APPLICATION COMMAND CONTROL - Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe an application command control user interface menu to facilitate user interaction between a user and a mobile application. An application command control menu is displayed on a display screen of a processing device. An input may be received into an application canvas of a launched application. The application canvas may be positioned above the application command control menu on the display screen. In response to a received input into the application canvas, a soft input keyboard application may be displayed. The soft input keyboard application may display below the application command control menu on the display screen. A selection may be received in the application command control menu. In response to the received selection, display of the application command control menu may be expanded to replace display on the soft input keyboard application on the display screen. Other examples are also described. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132568 | CONTEXT-BASED SEARCH AND RELEVANCY GENERATION - A computing device receives a trigger to surface relevant content. The device also obtains a variety of different types of cross-source contextual information. Items of content are identified and relevancy weights are obtained based on the contextual information. A relevancy is calculated, based on the relevancy weights, for each item of content. The items of content are surfaced. | 05-12-2016 |