Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Aaron C Hoff

John C Tang

Paul Johns

Asta Jane Roseway

Kori Inkpen Quinn

Mary P Czerwinski

Chen Zhao

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Gina Danielle Venolia

Sasa Junuzovic

Xiang Cao

Kori M Inkpen

Jennifer Marlow

Anoop Gupta

Hrvoje Benko

Philip Andrew Chou

Albert Gordon Greenberg

Andreas Georg Nowatzyk

Francislav Petrov Penov

David Alexander Molnar

Emre Mehmet Kiciman

Gavin Jancke

Scott Joseph Counts

Wissam S Kazan

Felipe Luis Naranjo

Chun-Kai Wang

Heather E Warncke

Xiaoyu Wang

Dave Maltz

George R Robertson

Jeremy Barksdale

Seungwon Kim

Wissam Kazan

A method described herein includes acts of extracting at least one entity from an arbitrary web page being viewed by an individual on a computing device and comparing the at least one entity with social network data of the individual, wherein the social network data comprises a plurality of messages generated by members of a social network of the individual. The method further includes the acts of identifying at least one message in the plurality of messages based at least in part upon the comparing of the at least one entity with the social network data of the individual and causing the at least one message to be displayed on the web page in conjunction with the at least one entity.

Social browsing

Aspects of the subject disclosure are directed towards providing contextual information (such as high resolution still images) during an audio or video call. A receiver of the contextual information may send commands to the sending device to specify a desired resolution and frame rate of such images. A receiving user also may determine how to display any video call frames and/or the contextual information on one or more display devices available to the receiving user. Other contextual information such as location-related data by which a user can determine and display a location of the other call participant (or participants) may be transmitted during the call.

Compositing and transmitting contextual information during an audio or video call

Embodiments described herein relate to enabling a lightweight way of recording and sharing video messages intended to provide input to a future meeting that cannot be personally attended. A person who cannot attend the meeting pre-records their thoughts and remarks for the meeting as video clips for presentation at the meeting. A physical device with at least a display is presented at the meeting. The physically present participants can play the pre-recorded clips on the device. Video of participants' responses to the clips is recorded and made available so that the represented attendee can view the participants' responses.

Proxy for asynchronous meeting participation

A local user of a local mobile device is allowed to participate in a video conference session with a remote user of a remote mobile device. Live video can be shared between and collaboratively digitally annotated by the local and remote users. An application can also be shared between and collaboratively digitally annotated by the local and remote users. A digital object can also be shared between and collaboratively digitally annotated by the local and remote users.

Mobile video conferencing with digital annotation

Described are systems and user interfaces for facilitating asynchronous communication with video threads. Implementations may enable members of a team to have threaded view of video messages, from which they can capture video, record their screen, and send, receive, and reply to a video message. The screen recording feature enables team members to share parts of their screen while simultaneously narrating, if desired. Video messages are threaded by topic and each conversation is visually represented.

Asynchronous video threads

Techniques are described for generating a user interface for visualizing a cloud service based on status and performance data of the cloud service obtained from data stores. A configuration file including declarative code may declare particular queries to status/performance data sources. The configuration file may also declare particular queries to topology data sources to obtain topology information. In accordance with the obtained information, objects representing the cloud service may be displayed. The objects correspond to particular hardware and software components, or logical grouping thereof, that are identified by the topology information.

Flexible visualization for services

A system that facilitates computation of a time-dependent variability value is described herein. The system includes a receiver component that receives a plurality of items, wherein each item has a timestamp corresponding thereto. The system further includes a value generator component that outputs a time-dependent variability value for an item in the plurality of items, wherein the time-dependent variability value is indicative of a recent frequency of use of the item in comparison to a frequency of use of the item over a defined period of time.

Computing a time-dependent variability value

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Aaron C Hoff