Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Austin Longino

Oludare Victor Obasanjo

Robert Michael Dolin

Paul Richard Chen Ming

Deepa Chandramouli

Jiahe Liu

Francislav Petrov Penov

Michael Marucheck

A method of providing updates from a social network to a desktop application is provided. An update is created in an application and if the application has permission, it creates an entry in a recent activity queue. The queue is then subject to analysis to reduce the number of entries in the queue. Subscribers that have permission to receive updates from the publisher and the publishing application then receive updates from the publisher.

Providing localized individually customized updates from a social network site to a desktop application

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from an application for access to a service. The application is one of a number of applications that each includes software for accessing the service. The method includes selecting one of the applications to use to access the service, and providing the requesting application access to the service through the selected application's software for accessing the service.

Federated application services

Growing community of inventors

Redmond, WA, United States of America

Austin Longino