Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Amanda Font

Joseph Spencer King

Francislav Petrov Penov

Benjamin N Truelove

Lutz Gerhard

Michael Patrick Bacus

Wissam S Kazan

Alla Taborisskaya

Vasudha Chandrasekaran

Andrew Scott Craft

Craig Reeves Brookes

Seth Daniel Micarelli

Mona Akmal

Shazaan Bahrainwala

Samuel DeKoven Grossberg

Chung Webster

Elizabeth Evans

Shilpa Makineni

Evan Kutter

Within a social network, a user may establish a set of contacts who share with the user various content items and comments related thereto. However, these content items are often hosted by a content source outside of the social network, and the user may have to transition to the content source to view the content item, and then transition back to the social network to submit a comment. Instead, a device may monitor the social network to record shared content items. When the user requests a presentation of the content source, the content items hosted by the content source that have been shared with the user may be included in the presentation. The presentation of the content source may also accept comments from the user regarding a content item, and send the comments to the social network where the content item was shared with the user.

Presenting content items shared within social networks

Virtual bookmarks can be set in digital content to enable a user to quickly locate a portion of interest. A user can provide an input to enter into an overview mode wherein multiple pages of content are displayed concurrently. The user can navigate through the pages, and when a bookmarked page is caused to no longer appear on the display an overlay element such as a thumbnail of the page can be positioned near the edge of the display, representing the current relative location of the page in the overview. A user can select one of the displayed pages to view, or can select the bookmark overlay element to return to the current page. A user can perform an action to cause the bookmarked page to be updated, or can perform various actions to cause multiple bookmarks to be created with respect to the content.

Bookmark overlays for displayed content

A most recently used (MRU) client synchronization engine is provided to synchronize a user's most recently used (MRU) document list associated with a client machine with a file hosting server's MRU document list. The file hosting server's MRU document list contains a list of the user's most recently used documents that are stored on the file hosting server. The user's documents that are stored on the file hosting server are accessible to the user on one or more web-enabled client machines. The MRU client synchronization engine analyzes registry data pertaining to the documents that a user uses on the client machine with the file hosting server's MRU document list to determine the user's most recently used documents.

Automatic synchronization of most recently used document lists

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Amanda Font