Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

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Brandon V Taylor

Christo Frank Devaraj

Hani Saliba

Austin Seungmin Lee

Mark Robert Swift

Raj B Merchant

Ryan S Menezes

Mahesh Rajagopalan

Peter Chin

Henry Yao-Tsu Chen

Farookh P Mohammed

James Alexander Stanton

Brian M Jones

Jason Thomas Faulkner

Rajesh Ramanathan

Pradipta Kumar Basu

Reza Abdollahi

Mugunthan Govindaraju

Gaurav Singh

Shawn Crispin Wright

Shiraz Jitendra Cupala

Hai Liu

Ran Mokady

Lauren Nicole Antonoff

Nancy Yi Liang

Jeffrey J Johnson

Dustin G Friesenhahn

Dragos Barac

Mingquan Xue

Blair Harold Beebe

Malcolm S Haar

Albert Robles

Rhae-Christie Shaw

Bofan Hsu

Steven J Sinofsky

Tia Gao

Chris G Parker

Mitika Gupta

Larry Downes

Mike Bazzano

Michael B Christiansen

Royce Riehlman

Techniques for synchronizing communication across devices are described. A system receives an input command corresponding to an announcement and sends data representing the announcement to devices of the system. The system receives responses from the devices and causes the device that originated the announcement to output content corresponding to the responses.

Communicating announcements

Systems and methods to prevent or diminish message thread explosion are disclosed. Message data sent between members of a communal profile and/or between members of multiple communal profiles may be consolidated into a single message thread, which may be displayed on devices associated with the members associated with of the communal profile(s). Consolidation of the message data into a communal message thread may allow users to more intuitively view conversations between members of their communal profile and/or between members of their communal profile and other communal profiles without viewing individual message threads between members of the communal profile(s).

Message management for communal account

Techniques for communicating announcements across devices are described. A system performs speech processing on input audio data to determine a command to output an announcement. The system determines devices outputting indicators representing users are proximate thereto. The system generates output audio data corresponding to at least a portion of the input audio data corresponding to announcement content. The system sends the output audio data to the devices along with instructions to output audio corresponding to the output audio data.

Techniques for enabling a system to create a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message or a short message service (SMS) message from a spoken message are described. A system may receive audio data corresponding to a spoken message. The system may determine a recipient of the spoken message as well as a device associated with the recipient. The system may determine the type of messaging supported by the device. Based on the messaging capabilities, the system generates either a MMS message or a SMS message. The MMS message may include a message payload including a portion of text corresponding to content of the message as well as audio data embedded in the message payload. The SMS message may include a message payload including a portion of text corresponding to content of the message as well as a link to message content audio data stored by the system.

Voice-based messaging

In a device including a processor and a memory in communication with the processor is described, the memory includes executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the device to perform functions of: generating, based on a plurality of local 3D models, a global 3D model representing a portion of a real-world environment; determining a location of a 3D virtual object in the global 3D model; and generating augmentation data for rendering the 3D virtual object to be seen at a location of the real-world environment corresponding to the location of the 3D virtual object in the global 3D model.

Augmented reality

A user device comprises a network interface, a rendering module, and a scene modification module. The network interface is configured to receive a video signal from another device via a network. The rendering module is configured to control display apparatus of the user device to display a virtual element to a user of the user device, the virtual element comprising a video image derived from the video signal. The modification module is configured to generate rendering data for displaying a modified version of the virtual element at the other device. The modified version does not include said video image. The network interface is configured to transmit the rendering data to the other device via the network. Alternatively or in addition, the rendering data can be modified at the other device to the same end.

Communication system

An augmented reality (AR) system receives a plurality of local 3D models of a part of a real-world environment, each having been generated by a different AR device when located in the real-world environment. The local 3D models are combined to generate a global 3D model, at least part of which is transmitted to a device remote from the real-world environment. The global 3D model represents a greater portion of the real-environment than any of the local 3D models individually. The AR system receives rendering data from the remote device, and transmits it to an AR device when the AR device is located in the real-world environment. Alternatively, the rendering data may be transmitted from the remote device to the AR device via a network directly. The rendering data is for use in rendering a virtual object at the AR device in the real-world environment.

A user device has a display, a user interface and a network interface. The network interface receive a video data stream from another user interface. A user of the user device is able to pause the video stream. The paused image of the video stream and the video stream are both displayed on the display. The user is able to annotate the paused image.

Architecture for enabling identification of a call party's representative during calls on behalf of the call party. The call representative is delegated to initiate or answer an IP call on behalf of the call party. An IP-telephony component initiates or answers the IP call by the call representative on behalf of the call party. The IP-telephony component can be an IP telephone, or any other suitable IP calling interface. An identification component presents a representation notification identifying the call representative to a connected call party. The representation notification can be displayed on a caller ID display on an IP phone, or can be displayed on a user interface of the personal computing device, for example. The calls can be point-to-point IP calls with a single participant, or can be conference calls with multiple participants, and can be performed with one or more suitable protocols.

Extensible realtime delegation for calls, conferences and collaboration

Communication requests added to a conversation are routed directly to a user without following the pre-configured routing rules for the user during a breakthrough period. The breakthrough period may last for the duration of the conversation or for some other period of time. A conversation may be initiated using any supported type of communication. For example, if a user initially sets up an IM conversation with a remote user, then when a voice call is made to the user from the remote user, the voice call is routed directly to the user without applying the routing rules that are configured for the user. Once the breakthrough period has elapsed, the routing rules become active again and are applied to communications received from the remote user that are directed to the user.

Bypassing routing rules during a conversation

Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a user interface. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a request to initiate an application program configured to generate a data file. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include displaying, by the initiated application program, a property panel in response to the request. The property panel may be configured to receive meta-data to be associated with the data file generated by the application program. Also, the property panel may be configured to provide the only place to receive the meta-data by the application program. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods may include receiving the meta-data in the property panel.

Methods and systems for providing a customized user interface for viewing and editing meta-data

Systems and methods are disclosed for incorporating meta-data in document content. The disclosed systems and methods may include initiating an application program configured to generate a document. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include displaying, by the initiated application program, a property panel. The property panel may be configured to receive meta-data to be associated with the document generated by the application program. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods may include receiving the meta-data in the property panel and copying the meta-data from the property panel to the document content.

Methods and systems for incorporating meta-data in document content

Mapping a server file to a corresponding locally stored copy of a server file and redirecting an application to a server file or to a corresponding local copy of the server file are provided for opening a most up-to-date and/or most reliable version of the desired file.

Redirection to local copies of server-based files

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