Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Anthony C Romano

Deepak Rao

William N Hanlon

Robert W Young

Ganesh Sridharan

Giridhar Kalpathy Narayanan

Mattia Tocco

Stephen Hoyt Houchen

Barnett Trzcinski

Daniel F Plastina

Jean-Pierre Duplessis

Douglas C Hebenthal

Lara N Dillingham

Sean Eron Anderson

Paul Sean Harrington

James D Jacoby

Kim A Stebbens

Brian Kai Peasley

Jonathan S Newman

Ronald Meijer

S David Burggraaf

Derek Jacoby

Timothy D Burrell

Ravishankar K Rudrappa

Kraig S Rury

Theodore H Roberts

A join service joins first and second computerized meetings. The join service receives information about the first and second computerized meetings from respective first and second meeting services. In response to a request from one of the first and second services to join the meetings, the join service translates audio, video, and data signaling between the first computerized meeting service and the second computerized meeting to join participants in the first computerized meeting and participants in the second meeting in a combined computerized meeting. An alternative join service obtains a uniform resource indicator (URI) for an agent of the first meeting. In response to a request from a participant in the second meeting to access the first meeting, the join service provides the URI to the second meeting service to allow the second meeting service to join the second meeting to the first meeting.

Binding separate communication platform meetings

A first meeting of a first network service is connected to a second meeting of a second network service by sending data identifying the first network service to the second network service and receiving, from the second network service, a key that is associated with the first network service. The first network service then sends information identifying the second meeting and a link to the first meeting to the second network service using an address for second network service that includes the key. The first network service then receives a second meeting link to the second meeting from the second network service and providing devices participating in the first meeting with the second meeting link. These devices activate the second meeting link to access resources of the second meeting.

Binding seperate communication platform meetings

Methods and systems for displaying a user interface including a join feature for an online meeting are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes detecting network activity for an online meeting, correlating the network activity to identify a meeting identifier for the online meeting, generating a join request for the online meeting based on the identified meeting identifier, and displaying a user interface configured to send the join request.

Join feature restoration to online meeting

Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions for connecting devices includes receiving a device identifier associated with a second device. A search is initiated for a second device profile associated with the device identifier using the device identifier. The second device profile is received. The second device profile includes a device address and a link key. The link key was generated by a second device different from the first device. The address of the first device is set to the device address. Encrypted data is received from the second device addressed to the address.

Virtual profile for Bluetooth

Features to join an online meeting are crucial to successfully conducting the online meeting. Accordingly, embodiments are directed to restoration of such features to an online meeting generated without a join feature or an online meeting in which the join feature was never added or accidentally removed. A client application may be configured to receive an online meeting, detect an absence of metadata associated with a join feature upon analysis of the online meeting, parse a body of the online meeting to detect a collection of one or more URLs, verify each of the URLs with a HTTP get operation, and in response to a determination that a URL comprises an online meeting identifier, recreate the metadata with the URL to generate the join feature. Once restored, the join feature may be presented within an invitation for the online meeting.

Binding of separate communication platform meetings is provided. Video conference service interconnection with online meeting service may be achieved by allowing the online meeting service to provide a tenant identifier to the video conference service, which may be associated with the tenant and used in a key that is used by the video conference service to schedule and initiate meetings. The online meeting service may also include the key in metadata used by its scheduling service. The tenant identifier and/or the key may be used by the components involved in initiating and, facilitating various meetings by users of the online meetings (and by users of the video conference service).

Contextual information associated with a party in a communication instance is provided to a user upon request. The communication instance can comprise a voice call, email, or video conference. If there is more than one party associated with the communication instance, the user may select the participating party from among several participating parties. The user may indicate the type of contextual information to be searched. The types of contextual information may include documents, spreadsheets, presentations, call records, emails, or other information associated with the selected participant. Contextual information search results comprising a list of file names of the selected file type are provided to the user. The user may further select a specific file name and, in response, view a thumbnail image of the file. A list of potential contextual information sources may be defined for each user.

Providing contextual information associated with a communication participant

Software execution with minimal impact deployment allows software to be executed on a system without first running a conventional installation process. Techniques are used to avoid any requirement of writing settings to restricted areas of operating system maintained data stores.

Software execution with minimal impact deployment

A method and system for extending the functionality of a management console uses a data object as a carrier to pass context information of an extended snap-in of the management console to an extension snap-in to enable the extension snap-in to provide extension functionality. The extension snap-in is registered with an information store as an extension of the extended snap-in. When the extended snap-in is invoked to provide management behavior, it creates a data object that exposes the context information using pre-selected clipboard formats. The extension snap-in is identified by referring to the information store, and the data object is passed to the extension snap-in. The extension snap-in obtains the context information from the data object using the pre-selected clipboard formats and performs its management behavior according to the received context information.

Method and system for extending functionality of a management console

A system and method of integrating the physical and virtual namespaces of a site into a single hierarchical representation thereof that reflects the hierarchical arrangement of the site as perceived by the client. A dynamic namespace integration mechanism is implemented as a part of a site management service to look up and integrate hierarchically organized directory information maintained in a registry (e.g., metabase) for both physical and virtual directories. The administrator is then given a view of the site that corresponds to the view of the client browsing the site. The administrator may interface with a user interface displaying the integrated namespace to manage the properties under a site's directories. The hierarchical relationships between the physical and virtual directories enable the administrator to set properties on parent nodes that are inheritable by child nodes, simplifying management tasks.

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Anthony C Romano