Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Avijit Sinha

Steven Novick

Matthew Evan Vogel

Evan R Stavrou

Olivier Michel Destrebecq

William Hong Vong

Sayim Kim

Ronald Di Sandro

Robert Strong

Kin Hong Mok

Daniel Lau

Matthew Vogel

Olivier Destrebecq

Steven M Novick

A method for determining relevance for activity feeds is disclosed. Activity feeds are received from one or more business entities. Information is received regarding activities being performed by a user. Context information is received regarding the user. A user context is determined from the information the regarding activities being performed by the user and the context information. The user context indicates the current status of the user. A relevance of the activity feeds is determined based on the user context. At least some of the activity feeds are displayed on a computing device. The at least some of the activity feeds are displayed according to a priority determined by the relevance.

Contextual relevance engine for activity feeds

Semantic zoom based navigation may be used to navigate content, such as content related to spreadsheets. Different gestures (e.g. pinch/stretch, pan, swipe) may be used while navigating the content. For example, while viewing data from a particular sheet in a workbook a pinch gesture may be received that changes the displayed content to a thumbnail view showing thumbnails that each represent a different sheet within the workbook. A gesture may also be received to change a view of an object. For example, a user may perform a stretch gesture near an object (e.g. a chart, graph, . . . ) that changes the current view to a view showing underlying data for the object. A user may also perform a gesture (e.g. a stretch gesture) on a portion of a displayed object that changes the current view to a view showing the underlying data for a specific portion of the object.

Semantic zoom-based navigation of displayed content

A tweak and view mode may be used by a user to see an effect of a proposed change to a document before the change is committed to the document. The application may automatically navigate to different portions of the document and/or display different sections of the document. Instead of the user having to search for the portion of the document affected by the change, the changed portions are determined for the user. The portions may be automatically displayed to the user and/or the user may determine when to move to each different portion that changed as a result of the proposed change. The proposed change may be accepted/rejected by the user. For example, a User Interface (UI) element may be selected by the user to either accept the change or reject the change.

Viewing effects of proposed change in document before committing change

Different prices may be charged for an In-App Purchase (IAP) for a same item based on a market associated with the user. For example, a user in one market may be charged a different price for an item than what is charged for the item to a user in a different market. A different product identifier is associated with the item for each of the different markets for the item. The item is submitted to the application store as different items that have the different product identifiers for each of the different markets. When an IAP request for an item is received from a user, a market that is associated with the user is determined based on a location associated with the user. After determining the market for the user, the product identifier that identifies the product is used to obtain the item from the application store.

Price differentiation by market for in-app software purchases

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating application licensing. In at least one implementation, license information for an application is identified based at least in part on a developer profile associated with the application and a state of a license for the application identified from at least a portion of the license information. Presentation of the application in accordance with the state of the license for the application can then be initiated.

License information access based on developer profiles

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating gallery environments and views. In at least one implementation an initial view is presented of tagged items arranged in tag groups. The tag groups correspond to tags and the tagged items are arranged in the tag groups based on with which of the tags each of the tagged items is associated. One of the groups may be identified for enhanced viewing. Accordingly, tagged items associated with the identified group, by way of their association with a tag corresponding to the group, are identified. In some implementations they may be referred to as enhanced tagged items. An enhanced view may then be presented of at least the enhanced tagged items.

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Avijit Sinha