Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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Baskaran Dharmarajan

Jay Christopher Jacobs

Ashvin Mathew

Andy Chin

Aladdin Aly Nassar

Ismail Cem Paya

David Bruce Lindsay

Geoffrey M Clark

Maximiliano Maccanti

Wei-Quiang Michael Guo

Ryan W Battle

Marcus Jon Jager

Ashutosh Tewari

Juanya Davon Williams

Ying-Kin Tony Yip

Walter Oliver

Claudia Irene Bond

Scott M Anson

Cem Paya

Kok Wai Chan

Adam Back

Mohammad Rafiushan Khan

Shabbir A Shahpurwala

Vladimir Dumitrean

Rahul Shrikant Newaskar

Derek Kiwamu Tsuchida

Christopher Butler

Dafina Ivanova Toncheva

Dennis Takchi Cheung

Joel Scaria

Elizabeth I Yang

Archana Manoj Gadkari

Amar Shroff

Shardul Vikram

Sergio Ligregni

Gad Ittah

Kyle Richey

Nikita Shah

Parker Shelton

Aladdin A Nassar

Techniques involving migrating authenticated content on a network towards the consumer of the content. One representative technique includes a network node receiving an encrypted seed having at least a location of the user data at a network service that stores the user data, and a cryptographic key to access the user data. The seed is received in response to a user login attempt to the network service. The user data is requested from the location using at least the received cryptographic key. The method further includes receiving and storing the user data at the network node, where the network node is physically closer to a location of the user than is the location of the network service. If the user is successfully authenticated, user access is provided to the stored user data at the network node rather than from the network service.

Migrating authenticated content towards content consumer

A method to allocate memory, in response to application requests, for a compact data structure having location data and a trailer section is provided. The trailer section of the compact data structure is checked to determine an offset for listings and indices representing the location data. Upon determining the offset, the listings and indices are loaded into memory and responses to the application requests are generated by utilizing the listings and indices stored in the memory.

User interface and geo-parsing data structure

Using various embodiments, methods and systems for securing user data are described. In one embodiment, a system includes a server side application accessing a service key from a conventional key vault and an escrowed key which can then be used to compute a key to the key using which information can be encrypted. Other embodiments include using a timer service to further safeguard secure user information.

Cloud based multi-key authorization based system

Using various embodiments, methods and systems for securing user data are described. In one embodiment, a system receives a user authentication token, an application identification, and a cryptographically random number from a software application. It then generates an identification hash value using the received information and determines whether the generated identification hash value corresponds to another identification hash value known to the system. If the hash values correspond, it authorizes the software application to perform actions on behalf of a user.

Identification service based authorization

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing additional content in an email. An email service can receive the email at an email server. Prior to the email being sent to an email client, metadata for a parameter used to retrieve the additional content is identified and collected. The collected metadata is sent to the email client used by the intended recipient of the email (e.g., on a smart phone). When the user attempts to access the email, the email server can respond by sending script code to the email client, which, in combination with locally stored metadata retrieved from the email, provides the additional content in the email. In this manner, an email regarding a package, for example, can include not only a tracking number but also a status of the delivery of the package, where the status may be different/updated each time the email is accessed.

Providing additional email content in an email client

Systems and methods for providing user's access to a particular version of an electronic resource (e.g., a website, web resource or the like) where versions of such electronic resources are stored across a set of servers are disclosed. In one embodiment, user's requests may be received&#x2014;either requesting a particular version or as an unversioned request. A version control module (for example, a load balancer) may receive these requests and assign the user's request to a first server according to different metrics, e.g., regarding version control rules and/or effective load balancing considerations. If the initial server assigned is not able to handle the user's request, the user's request may be proxied to another server, according to different metrics. If there is no server that may handle the user's request (after a certain number of proxied requests), the request may be returned to the user as not handled.

Dynamically affinitizing users to a version of a website

Items of an item set may be stored by an item server (e.g., mail messages comprising a mailbox stored by a mail server) that supports the application of actions, but only within a constraint (e.g., a maximum duration or computational resources consumed by the action). The application of complex actions to large item sets may exceed the constraint if performed in one request. Moreover, the request may be made by a user interface of a user device, but the user interface may stall while interoperating with the item server to perform the action. Instead, a background process may issue a sequence of requests applying the action to respective batches of items within the constraint. This architecture may enable the user interface to remain responsive to the user while the action is performed, and even to be terminated without jeopardizing the completion of the action upon the item set.

Applying actions to item sets within a constraint

Providing integrated multi-session instant messaging in a single instant messaging window. A user interface has an instant messaging window for displaying a plurality of conversation panes representative of concurrent instant messaging sessions between a local user and a plurality of remote users. Each conversation pane represents one of the messaging sessions. A plurality of message components correspond to the conversations panes so that each message component corresponds to one conversation pane. Each message component is arranged in the corresponding conversation pane and displays text from an instant message. The conversation display area displays at least two of the conversation panes linearly along the height of the window so that the message components arranged in the at least two conversation panes are simultaneously viewable.

Simultaneous instant messaging in single window

A method to complete partially entered geographical address information. The method receives the partial geographical address information, parses the information to determine the missing portions of the address by locating in a compact data structure offsets to address information corresponding to the missing portions and populates the set of fields for geographic locations, wherein the partial geographical address information is received at the graphical user interface in response to a copy-and paste or drag-and-drop command.

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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Baskaran Dharmarajan