Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Chani Ayn Doggett

Michael John Novak

Brian R Meyers

Sriram Srinivasan

Kenneth Martin Tubbs

Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton

Kiran Tatapudi

Abolade Gbadegesin

Naud Frijlink

Gregory Alan Howard

John Edward Gallardo

Bartosz Henryk Paliswiat

Christer Garbis

Shawn Patrick Henry

Alexander Leo Campbell

Guillermo Enrique Rueda

Kenneth Wolfe

Robert David Frye

Yisheng Yao

Bradford Glenn Singley

Dena Natalie Saunders

Hanna McLaughlin

Julian Manuel Varanda

Houman Motevaselolhagh

Shengbo Xue

Dorothy Feng

Arthur Chen

Nassim Amar

Mahmut Arslan

Bojun Ma

Rebecca Anne Muraira

Camille Dominique Basilio

James Chun-Yuan Lee

Colleen E Hamilton

Systems, methods and devices for surfacing web content in an operating system shell construct are provided. A taskbar web content element size may be selected based on an amount of free space in a taskbar. First and second scored web content may be received, wherein the web content is scored based at least on the web content's relevance score to a first user account. A taskbar web content topical display category corresponding to the first web content may be selected based on the first web content having a higher score than the second web content. A web content element of the selected size and topical display category may be caused to be surfaced in the taskbar. A selection of the surfaced web content element may be received and a subset of the first web content form the first source may be caused to be surfaced in a web content pane.

Integration of personalized dynamic web feed experiences into operating system shell surfaces

Technology related to determining a user engagement with software programs is disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method can include receiving a plurality of signals indicating states of the computer and a software application executing on the computer. The method can include combining the signals to determine a user engagement with the software application. The method can include storing a user engagement log based on the determined user engagement with the software application.

Determining user engagement with software applications

Technology related to an activity feed service is disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method can include receiving updates to activity streams, where a respective activity stream indicates an engagement of a respective user with applications executing on a respective client device connected to a network. The different activity streams associated with a particular user can be merged to generate a merged activity stream associated with the particular user. The different received activity streams can correspond to different respective client devices. The merged activity stream associated with the particular user can be transmitted over the network.

Activity feed service

Linking data items describing a person into a single, unified contact entry without merging the data items. The data items include, for example, contact data, social network data, and other data describing the person. The contact entry is a single representation of the person that, in some embodiments, combines a plurality of personas of the person without merging the underlying data items. Metadata representing one or more contact entries is capable of being shared across a plurality of devices and applications such that a user is presented with a consistent contact list on different devices and from within different applications. In some embodiments, the user annotates one or more of the contact entries with notes or other data that is stored with the metadata.

Automatic contact linking from multiple sources

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Chani Ayn Doggett