Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Brent Edward Ford

Shai Guday

David Neil MacDonald

Thomas W Kuehnel

Triptpal Singh Lamba

Piyush Goyal

Saumaya Sharma

Darya Mazandarany

Sidharth Nabar

Tyler Edward Hennessy

Jonathan Hathaway

Vikas Singh

Issa Yousef Khoury

Harish Jayanti

Cristian M Matesan

Woo Ram Lee

Peter John Richards

Ling-Ya Huang

Srinivasa Raghavan Santhanam

Gaurav Bindlish

Shiyuan Zhao

Fengna Gu

Aayushi Chowdhary

Khushi Hitendra Patel

Michael J Krejcik

Sarvesh Surana

Amber Jerica McRae

Willis Fung

William P Dinkuhn

Jonathan I Reyes Spezzia

Antoine Haas

Shilpi Sinha

Conner Brennick

Magdalena Dakeva

Lu Han

Brian H Burks

Jesse H Stein

Andrew N Dwersteg

Julio Cesar Gutierrez

Abhishek Mondal

David Neil Macdonald

Thomas Werner Kuehnel

Systems and methods for providing enterprise-level application content customization are described herein. A method includes executing an enterprise application (from a suite of enterprise applications that are utilized by the enterprise) on a remote computing system operated by an enterprise administrator. The method includes surfacing a content customization UI on a display device of the remote computing system during execution of the enterprise application. The content customization UI includes UI elements that enable the specification of parameters for providing enterprise-specific customized content during execution of enterprise application(s) from the suite of enterprise applications on remote computing system(s) operated by enterprise user(s). The method also includes receiving, via the content customization UI, user input including the specification of parameters and generating the customized content based on the specified parameters. The method further includes surfacing the customized content on display device(s) of the remote computing system(s) during execution of the enterprise application(s).

Natively-integrated application content customization for enterprises

Various technologies described herein pertain to utilization of shared Wi-Fi. For instance, network access rights of a Wi-Fi network can be controlled by a mobile device of a point of contact for the Wi-Fi network. Moreover, utilization of a Wi-Fi network can be tracked and usage data indicative of historic utilization of the Wi-Fi network can be retained. Further, groups of users between whom Wi-Fi credentials are shared can be created.

Shared Wi-Fi usage

Various technologies described herein pertain to configuring an access point in a local network for operation in a community Wi-Fi network. The community Wi-Fi network includes access points in differing local networks that share respective network bandwidth capacities with member computing devices of the community Wi-Fi network. A request to join the access point to the community Wi-Fi network is transmitted from the access point to a community aggregation system. Responsive to the request, the community aggregation system transmits a firmware update to the access point. The access point installs the firmware update in memory of the access point. Moreover, responsive to installation of the firmware update, the access point can share network bandwidth capacity with the member computing devices of the community Wi-Fi network. Further, the community aggregation system supports transparent handoffs between access points in to the community Wi-Fi network.

Community Wi-Fi network joined access point configuration

Various technologies described herein pertain to managing and accessing a community Wi-Fi network. The community Wi-Fi network can include sharer computing devices in differing local networks that share respective network bandwidth capacities with consumer computing devices. Feedback information pertaining to network bandwidth capacity available at different geographic locations covered by the community Wi-Fi network can be collected and evaluated to enable generation of maps for visualizing coverage of the community Wi-Fi network. A consumer computing device can display a map that includes visual information pertaining to the geographic coverage of the community Wi-Fi network relative to a geographic location of the consumer computing device. Community Wi-Fi network coverage can be analyzed to detect geographic locations at which network coverage is desirably added; network coverage can be added by incentivizing a potential sharer computing device to opt in to share network bandwidth capacity or controlling beamforming of sharer computing device(s).

Management of community Wi-Fi network

A network usage manager in an operating system executing on a mobile device is configured to enable selection among different cellular data connections by application ('app') or by app class so that end users can tailor cellular network allocation, app performance, and costs to meet their specific needs while mobile operators can improve network utilization and provide more comprehensive data plan offerings. The network usage manager applies app usage policies to select among different cellular data connections which may be supported on the mobile device using single or multiple SIM/UICC (Subscriber Identity Module/Universal Integrated Circuit Card) cards. The app usage policies can be set for a given app or class of app on the mobile device so that, for example, apps that implement background synchronization processes can use typically less expensive, lower bandwidth connections while typically more expensive, higher bandwidth connections are selected for data intensive apps.

Network selection for a given application or context

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Brent Edward Ford