Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Google Inc.

Anuj Goyal

Joshua Daniel Hartman

Dan Chen

Marcus Köhler

Qingle Yao

Oleg Davydov

David Shangni Li

Benjamin Ackerman

Kai Chao

Ligeng Dong

Apisada Petchtes

This disclosure relates to a method for managing installation of applications, where the method includes receiving, from a first computing device associated with an administrator of an organization, a pin request to attach an application, provided by an application store platform, with a version of the application, initiating, in response to the pin request, transfer of a copy of the version of the application from the application store platform to a data storage device, generating an application identifier that identifies a location of the version of the application stored in the data storage device, and transmitting installation data to a second computing device that is managed by the organization. The installation data includes the application identifier, which is used by the second computing device to install the version of the application from the data storage device.

Managing installation and updates of an application on a computing device

A system and method for the federation of content items of a social network based on personalized relevance includes obtaining content items from first and second content item sources. Profile data for a member of the social network is obtained from the electronic data storage. A relevance score of the content item to the profile data of the member is determined for each of the content items. A utility value is determined based on the selection value, the value metric for content items from the first content item source, and the relevance score. A user device associated with the member displays the content items based on their respective utility values.

Federation of content items in a social network based on personalized relevance

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Anuj Goyal