Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ashutosh Kumar

Humberto Lezama Guadarrama

Michael Thomas McLean

Yue Ma

Amy Huyen Phuoc Nguyen

Santosh Kumar

Luiz Gustavo Bustamante Magalhaes

Arjun Kumar Kalluri

Ravin Sachdeva

Xuemin Liu

Izis De Melo Moreira

Kiran Phani Kaja

Nathaniel Trent Potter

Iuliana Chiriac

Fernando Ruben Martinez Ovelar

A messaging system identifies a received message as a notification message from a conversation system in a media application. The messaging system obtains rendering information to render a current state of the conversation thread represented by the message. The message system renders the current state of the followed conversation thread, with actuators that provide interactive functionality allowing the user to interact with the conversation thread, in the message viewer of the user's messaging system.

Surfacing media conversations and interactive functionality within a message viewer of a messaging system

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for providing cross-device access to group features are presented. A facial image input may be received from a user. A determination may be made that the user is not associated with a group having access to one or more sets of features accessible from the device. An authorization request may be sent to an owner account associated with the device for adding the user to the group. A request to add the user to the group may be received via the authorization request. The user may be added to the group.

Automated user identification for cross-platform group and device collaboration

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Ashutosh Kumar