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Mircosoft Corporation

Microsoft Corporation

Amer A Hassan

Christian F Huitema

Thomas W Kuehnel

Paul William Garnett

Russell Andrew Penar

Deyun Wu

Billy R Anders, Jr

Wei-Chen Chen

Mahendra D Sekaran

Edward Charles Giaimo, Iii

Mitesh K Desai

John Erik Hershey

Pascal Francis Menezes

Hui Shen

Sandeep Chennakeshu

Vishesh Parikh

Andrew Thomas Baron

Michael J Davis

Paul William Alexander Mitchell

Danny Allen Reed

Henrique Filgueiras

Abhishek Abhishek

Mukund Sankaranarayan

Bradford R Clark

Todd Haugen

Roy D Kuntz

Yi Lu

Gunter Leeb

Yatharth Gupta

Rajaram Ramesh

Taroon Mandhana

Christopher J Corbett

Nils Rutger Rydbeck

Jiandong Ruan

William George Verthein

Mukesh Karki

Alok Manchanda

Mahmoud S Elhaddad

Pradeep Bahl

David T Jones

Aaron Wesley Cunningham

Marco Piumatti

Paul W Dent

Shai Guday

Gary Jude Saulnier

Dmitry A Anipko

Trenholme J Griffin

Danny Levin

Upshur Parks

Noel W Anderson

Ali S Khayrallah

Daniel Reed

Warren Vincent Barkley

Adam Sapek

Paul Wilkinson Dent

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Paramvir Bahl

Kumar Balachandran

Karl James Molnar

Kun Tan

Srinivas Raghu Gatta

Jiansong Zhang

Peter Dimitrios Karabinis

Philip Andrew Chou

Sean O Lyndersay

Nabeel Agha Riza

Ravi Rao

Kenneth B Welles, Ii

Stephen Michael Hladik

Yunnan Wu

David A Roberts

Bernard D Aboba

Omar Aftab

Aiman A Abdel-Malek

Carl S Olivier

Abhilash Chandrasekharan Nair

Vishal A Narkar

Havish Koorapaty

Noel Wayne Anderson

Robert J Wojnarowski

Anoop Gupta

Jerome Johnson Tiemann

Timothy Mark Moore

Lionel M Levinson

David R Irvin

Wayne E Stark

Nelly L Porter

Scott Manchester

Richard Louis Frey

Salim S AbiEzzi

Yongbing Wan

Andrei Jefremov

Anirban Banerjee

Shannon J Chan

Arunkumar Navasivasakthivelsamy

Torbjorn Wilson Solve

Michael Gdula

Jean Pierre De Vries

Poovanpilli G Madhavan

This disclosure relates to managing user presence in a unified communications system. A method is provided where a computing device establishes a wireless connection with a peripheral device. The computing device has a native dialer application and a unified communications client (UCC) application. A communication session is initiated via the native dialer, utilizing the peripheral device. The native dialer updates a device profile for the peripheral device with state information reflecting active engagement. The UCC application obtains this state information and updates the user's presence status to indicate current engagement in the communication session. The UCC application may communicate the user's presence status to a cloud-based service, allowing proper handling of incoming communication requests. The method ensures accurate reflection of user availability across multiple devices and applications, enhancing the communication experience within a unified communications environment.

Communications management leveraging status information from shared resources

Methods, machine-readable mediums, devices, and systems for joining a participant to a meeting in a modified join mode. A join mode comprises one or more configurable operational parameters within an network-based communication service that specifies the manner in which a participant is integrated into a network-based real-time interactive communication session such as a network-based meeting. Specifically, the join mode encompasses various privacy and visibility options that can be applied when a participant enters the meeting. One such option includes a presence concealment feature that, when activated, hides the joining participant's presence from one participant, one or more specific participants, or all participants within the meeting.

Communication session join modes and auto join

The techniques disclosed herein provide enhanced security features for controlling access to shared content and private content of a document. A system can enable multiple users to access a common content file, such as a Word document. Each user can add additional private content unique to each individual user. Private content associated with a particular user is restricted from being shared with any other user. Thus, when a first user opens a file authored and/or owned by other users stored in a cloud storage service, the system allows that first user to see the common content that is shared by the other users plus private content that is unique to the first user, but not allow the first user to view other private content provided by the other users.

Enhanced security features for controlling access to shared content and private content of a shared document

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums for utilizing context information to create decoding feedback information to improve decoder accuracy and/or performance. In some examples, the context information is from layers of a network stack above the layers in which the decoders are present. The context information may be or be based upon information about previously received and decoded data and/or information about the sender to provide decoding feedback information to the decoder that is used either to correct a previous decoding error or to inform the decoder on which of a plurality of decoding choices is more likely to be correct. This may increase decoding performance by decreasing errors and in some examples, reducing the complexity of choices by eliminating certain decoding possibilities and thus increasing decoder efficiency.

Object-based context-based decoder correction

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for sidebar communication threads forked from, or related to, a principal thread. Messages in the sidebar communication thread may include a history of the principal thread, including one or more messages from the principal thread, and may include a proposed principal thread message that is the subject of the sidebar thread discussion. The sidebar thread may also include sidebar thread messages that carries the conversation of the sidebar thread participants. Once a termination condition is reached for the sidebar thread, the sidebar thread terminates and either the proposed principal thread message (as potentially modified by participants of the sidebar thread) becomes an accepted principal thread message and it is posted to the principal thread as if it was sent by the sidebar initiator or no message is posted (e.g., the proposed principal thread message is rejected). In some examples, users may select a fork point and a return point from the principal thread.

Fork and return point selection for sidebar communication threads

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums which automatically initiate a connection to a network-based communication session using a second communication application responsive to the communication service detecting that the user is unable to join the network-based communication session using a first communication application. The first and second communication applications may be on a same or different computing device. For example, if a user's desktop device is unavailable or experiencing connection issues, then the communication server may automatically request that a communication application on a mobile phone of the user join the network-based communication session.

Server initiated communication session join after endpoint status check failure

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums in which interference is mitigated on a wireless radio frequency channel used by multiple computing devices by adjusting (e.g., lowering) the power level of one or more computing devices (e.g., mobile devices such as User Equipment (UE) devices) and using successive interference cancellation to decode the combined signals. Successive interference cancellation may first decode a strongest signal of a combined signal of all computing devices. The decoded signal is then subtracted from the combined signal. The strongest signal of that combined signal is then decoded and then subtracted and so on until all signals are decoded.

Interference reduction for wireless communications using interference cancellation and selective power control

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for sidebar communication threads forked from, or related to, a principal thread. Messages in the sidebar communication thread may include a history of the principal thread, including one or more messages from the principal thread, and may include a proposed principal thread message that is the subject of the sidebar thread discussion. The sidebar thread may also include sidebar thread messages that carries the conversation of the sidebar thread participants. Once a termination condition is reached for the sidebar thread, the sidebar thread terminates and either the proposed principal thread message (as potentially modified by participants of the sidebar thread) becomes an accepted principal thread message and it is posted to the principal thread as if it was sent by the sidebar initiator or no message is posted (e.g., the proposed principal thread message is rejected). The message that is posted may not include any sidebar thread content.

Final message composition for sidebar communication threads

A system provides permission controls for group messages. A system can support user accessibility by the use of a permissions that indicates that a user has accessibility needs with respect to a voice input. When a user is known to have accessibility issue with providing a voice input, a system data structure, such as a Teams directory, can indicate when specific users have special needs. The system can grant them with rights to prevent others from providing messages to a message thread. This allows that person to become a presenter of a meeting while using a message thread to give their presentation without interruption from others. The system can unlock the thread and allow others to provide messages when the user is done with their presentation. By controlling a message thread in this manner, a system can allow users having special needs to participate as a meeting presenter.

Automation of permission controls for group messages

Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device. Also disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for notification handling for user interfaces.

Notification handling in a user interface

Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device.

Sub-display designation for remote content source device

Systems and methods for conducting a videoconference including receiving multimedia streams of a plurality of participants in a multimedia conference, the multimedia streams including audio components and video components and displaying video tiles of the participants on a display screen. The audio components and/or the video components of the multimedia streams are analyzed to detect characteristics indicative of a first participant and a second participant having a first conversation with each other. Camera positions on the computing devices of the participants are identified. In response to identifying that the first participant and the second participant are having the first conversation with each other, a video tile for the first participant and a video tile for the second participant are moved to edges of the respective display screens toward the camera positions.

Eye contact optimization

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems and machine-readable mediums which allow for more secure authentication attempts by implementing authentication systems with credentials that include interspersed noise symbols in positions determined by the user. These systems secure against eavesdroppers such as shoulder-surfers or man-in-the middle attacks as it is difficult for an eavesdropper to separate the noise symbols from legitimate credential symbols.

Authentication with random noise symbols and pattern recognition

A system that can coordinate user interface formats having customized threads comprising messages from a common thread. Each client device can be managed by a data structure that defines thread containers, where individual thread containers define threads and topics for each thread. Each thread can also be associated with unique groups of messages. The data structure can cause each client computer to display different user interface formats, with each format showing different threads for each user. Individual devices can control displayed threads according to a topic limit so that displayed messages can be limited for optimizing the use of a display screen and other computing resources. The system provides more granular control of user interface formats to allow users to separate messages of high-priority topics.

Coordination of message thread groupings across devices of a communication system

In some embodiments, a location of a mobile terminal is determined by obtaining a location of a first access point (AP), receiving a visibility indication indicating that a second AP received a signal from the first AP or the first AP received a signal from the second AP, determining a location of the second AP based on the received visibility indication and the location of the first AP, determining a location of the mobile terminal in communication with the second AP based on the determined location of the second AP, and transmitting a message indicating the location of the mobile terminal on a digital communication network.

Distributed location determination in wireless networks

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Amer A Hassan