Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Andrew Haon

Nathaniel Terrell Clinton

Michael Burt Goulding

David M Cohen

Zhihua Dong

Dmitriy Meyerzon

Joseph Spencer King

Aaron Naoyoshi Sheung Yan Woo

Shawn M Thomas

Andrew Paul Begun

David A Braun

Ryan Antoine Nakhoul

Alan Bennett Auerbach

Kin Man Yau

Todd Myles Derksen

Bernardo Iturriaga Dubost

Shai Guday

Denise Michele Trabona

Joseph H Matthews, Iii

Sharad Agarwal

Raman Kumar Sarin

Nikita Voronkov

Vidya Srinivasan

Jason Glenn Silvis

Joseph Alton Schrader

Ted Tai-Yu Chen

John Yovin

Adri Verlaan

Jeffrey L Wight

John D Skovron

Kristen Kamath

Jeremiah T Whitaker

Timothy L Bui

Quanjie Lin

Adam Ford

Shirlene Lim

J Spencer King

Karl Thompson

Jennifer Anne Karr

Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure help improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by providing selective push notifications to users of such systems in response to new content being published. Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide notifications to some users based on the relevance of published content to such users, while abstaining from notifying users for whom the content is irrelevant.

Organizationally programmable intranet push notifications

The ability for an organization's administrator to customize assets and content that, their users have access to is a substantial capability. This capability is not just to facilitate delivery of the correct content to the relevant audience, but is also important to ensure that the content is appropriate for the endpoint. The administrator may curate organizational links that are provided as a hierarchical directory of sites and applications for the organization. Embodiments are directed to programming the organizational links that propagate to mobile applications. A server side application programming interface (API) may be provided to access a organization's curated links, a web user experience may be provided to enable the administrator to manage and curate the organizational links, and a mobile-specific user experience may be provided for viewing the links in a manner that enables quick access to the most relevant content to users of the organization.

Programming organizational links that propagate to mobile applications

Relevant content (e.g., containers and/or container elements) can be surfaced via user interfaces based at least partly on determining the relevant content based on interactions between user(s), container(s), and/or container element(s). Techniques described herein include generating a user interface configured with functionality to present content to a user. The user interface can include interface elements, such as cards, corresponding to containers. The cards can be arranged on the user interface in an order determined based at least partly on respective relevancies of the containers to the user, and a presentation of individual cards can be based at least partly on a type of corresponding individual containers. Individual cards can include a group of one or more interface elements corresponding to container elements that can be arranged based at least partly on respective relevancies of the container elements to the user.

User interfaces for personalized content recommendation

A lack of available responsive options for existing web sites and/or pages, and the wide spectrum under which they fall presents a challenge for a satisfying mobile user experience (UX) with a hosted collaboration service. Templates used to create a site and/or page may each have capabilities and features which 'cross-over' into other templates. Deconstructing and rendering a web page into a native application experience at a mobile client may highlight a template's functionality to enhance the UX. For example, a server side application programming interface (API) may be provided for the mobile UX, a type of a page to be rendered may be determined, the page may be deconstructed into pieces, and the deconstructed pieces may be provided to rebuild the page at the mobile client natively. The page may be rendered on the mobile client with added elements based on the deconstructed pieces to enhance the mobile UX.

Deconstructing and rendering of web page into native application experience

In embodiments of restricted execution modes, a mobile device can display a device lock screen on an integrated display device, and transition from the device lock screen to display a shared space user interface of a shared space. The transition to display the shared space user interface is without receiving a PIN code entered on the device lock screen. The mobile device implements a restricted execution service that is implemented to activate a restricted execution mode of the mobile device, and restrict access of a device application to device content while the restricted execution mode is activated. The restricted execution service can also allow a shared device application that is included in the shared space access to the device content while the restricted execution mode is activated.

Restricted execution modes

In embodiments of mobile device child share, a mobile device can display a default device lock screen on an integrated display device, and receive an input effective to transition from the default device lock screen to display a child lock screen without receiving a PIN code entered on the default device lock screen. The mobile device can receive a second input effective to transition from the child lock screen to display a child space. The mobile device implements a device share service that activates a child share mode of the mobile device, and restricts functionality of device applications and access to device content based on designated restriction limits.

Mobile device child share

Disclosed herein are technologies that allow users to create, issue, accept and participate in gaming challenges. A gaming challenge involves participants playing a gaming application to improve their rank on a leaderboard associated with the application until challenge conditions are met or the challenge expires. Challenges can be time-based, objective-based, a tournament or of other type. A challenger can create a challenge by specifying a gaming application to be played, the leaderboard to be used in the challenge, challenge type, challenge duration, and additional challenge criteria. A gaming service can maintain the leaderboard and pass challenge-related notifications between participants. Participants' computing devices can send notices indicating when a challenge has been met or when a participant's relative ranking has changed. A challenger or challengee can select an avatar expression for animating an avatar when a challenge request or acceptance or decline of a challenge is presented at a computing device.

Gaming challenges which use leaderboards that rank challenge participants

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Andrew Haon