Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Google Inc.

Chee Heng Chew

Christopher J Guzak

Joseph D Belfiore

George H Pitt, Iii

Ian Michael Ellison-Taylor

Neil W Konzen

Satoshi Nakajima

Kathryn L Parker

Ron Oded Gery

Elizabeth A Bastiaanse

Mark A Malamud

Jeffrey Lawrence Bogdan

Amit Fulay

Stuart T Laney

Sarah E Zuberec

Jeffrey R Blum

Greg A Keyser

Charlton E Lui

Erik Kay

Thor Carpenter

Rahul Roy-Chowdhury

Scott E Berkun

Sankaranarayanan Ramasubramanian

Royce A Levien

Ido Miles Ben-Shachar

Christian Plagemann

Zeke Koch

Navneet Dalal

Joel P Dehlin

Timothy David Sharpe

Antonio Bernardo Monteiro Costa

Dominique Fortier

Rahul Garg

Kevin Timothy Shields

Mark Chang

Michael Noth

Michael P Calligaro

Mehul Nariyawala

Mark H Enomoto

Daniel P Oran

Kent D Sullivan

Kevin Geisner

William Hong Vong

Igor B Peev

Bryan T Starbuck

Dan W Altman

Michael G Sheldon

Justin Michael Maguire

Richard Wales Stoakley

Jason William Fuller

Andrew Royal

Yu Shrike Zhang

Vivek Paul Gundotra

Jonas Erik Lindberg

Martin J Sleeman

Susan Elizabeth Pappalardo

Ray Sun

Gregory Marshall Burgess

Brian David Marsh

David Scrymgeour Bennett

Alexandra Levich

Randal James Ramig

Steven Andrew Cover

James Weatherall

Timothy Seeds Milligan

Richard James Dunn

Timothy Samuel Psiaki

Zhenhai Lin

Christen E Coomer

Ray Su

Keith C Bentley

Chad M Whitney

Hin-Chung Lam

Alexander Jan Verhage

Eric Lawrence Albert Lantz

Michael Harry Lintz

Eduardo Fernandez

Qian Huang

Ming Zhang

James D Drage

Debbie M Yau

Greg Burgess

Tim Psiaki

William Kuo-Wei Wen

Rob SanFilippo

Daniel Caiafa

Qinming Fang

Systems and methods are disclosed for gesture-initiated actions in videoconferences. In one implementation, a processing device receives content streams during a communication session, identifies a request for feedback within one of the content streams, based on an identification of the request for feedback, processes the content streams to identify one or more gestures within at least one of the content streams, and based on a determination that a first gesture of the one or more gestures is relatively more prevalent across the content streams than one or more other gestures, initiates an action with respect to the communication session.

Gesture-initiated actions in videoconferences

A method, at a client device associated with a first subscriber of a multiplicity of subscribers to a social network, includes presenting a social network page associated with a second subscriber of the multiplicity of subscribers to the social network, the social network page including a link to an online collaboration space associated with the second subscriber; receiving a user input activating the link, the user input made by the first subscriber of the multiplicity of subscribers; and in response to the user input activating the link, presenting the online collaboration space and adding the first subscriber as a participant to the online collaboration space.

Social network collaboration space

A method and computing system for generating a temporal timebase that temporally-associates one or more portions of a video associated with a videoconference with one or more data events defined via a viewer application. A specific portion of the video associated with the video conference is rendered, wherein the specific portion is chosen from the one or more portions. The temporal timebase is accessed to identify a specific data event, chosen from the one or more data events, that is temporally-associated with the specific portion of the video associated with the video conference. The specific data event may be rendered within the viewer application.

Video conferencing system and method

The present disclosure, in some implementations comprises systems and methods for providing applications during video communication, via online communities or services, for example, social networks. Video communication may be video conferencing or 'video chat' sessions among a plurality of users of the online services. Users may engage in a video conference or 'video chat,' yet at the same time, use or obtain different applications, designated as either &#x201c;personal&#x201d; or &#x201c;shared&#x201d; applications. A &#x201c;personal&#x201d; application is one that does not involve others and is configured to enhance an individual user's personal experience during a group video communication. A &#x201c;shared&#x201d; application is one that involves at least one of multiple users during a group video communication, for example, users may participate in a card or trivia game, watch videos together, collaborate and share documents, or the like.

Providing users access to applications during video communications

A method and system for providing cross system installation of applications, include providing for installation, via a server, a natively operating application coded only with web technologies, and providing for installation a single runtime environment that provides the natively operating application access to computer system-level services that are not available to web applications. The single runtime environment controls the installation and uninstallation of the natively operating application, and the natively operating application is configured to execute independent of a web browser.

Cross system installation of web applications

Systems and methods are disclosed for gesture-initiated actions in videoconferences. In one implementation, a processing device receives one or more content streams as part of a communication session. The processing device identifies, within the one or more content streams, a request for feedback. The processing device processes, based on an identification of a request for feedback within the one of the plurality of content streams, the one or more content streams to identify a presence of one or more gestures within at least one of the one or more content streams. The processing device initiates, based on an identification of the presence of one or more gestures within at least one of the one or more content streams, an action with respect to the communication session.

A method and computing system for enabling a video conference between a plurality of video conference participants. A video feed associated with the video conference is broadcast to a plurality of viewers. A plurality of interactions are received from a plurality of submitters included within the plurality of viewers. A chosen interaction is selected from the plurality of interactions. The submitter associated with the chosen interaction is invited to join the video conference.

A method and computing system for receiving an indication of a first user participating in a videoconference. A determination is made concerning whether bandwidth compression is preferable for the first user of the videoconference. If bandwidth compression is preferable for the first user of the videoconference: an unprocessed video stream associated with the first user is processed to generate a reduced bandwidth video stream, and the reduced bandwidth video stream is provided to a video encoder. Processing the unprocessed video stream includes performing an edge detection procedure on the unprocessed video stream.

Bandwidth reduction system and method

A method and computing system for scheduling a multi-session video conference for a host. A plurality of discrete video conference sessions are linked to the multi-session video conference. The multi-session video conference is executed. The host is transferred between two or more of the discrete video conference sessions during the multi-session video conference.

Embodiments include storing, using one or more computing devices, at least one image associated with each of a plurality of videos. Embodiments may also include transmitting instructions configured to display a plurality of video interfaces, each of the plurality of video interfaces configured to display an initial image of one of the plurality of videos at a first time, the initial image being different at each of the plurality of video interfaces. Embodiments may also include allowing a first transition from a display of the initial image at the first time to a display of a second image at a second time at one of the plurality of video interfaces. Embodiments may further include allowing a second transition from a display of the initial image at the second time to a display of a third image at a third time at a second of the plurality of video interfaces.

System and method for transitioning video

Online multiplayer games are provided in multiple tiers. A first tier offers limited features and a second tier offers first tier features plus additional features. The additional features are exclusive to the second tier. During game play in the first tier, enticements are provided to participate in the second tier. The first tier requires no subscription to participate therein. Participation in the second tier requires a subscription. In an example configuration, the first tier allows players to host a game on a dedicated server, browse a list of dedicated server games, and join a game from a list of first tier eligible games. And, the second tier offers a variety of additional features, such as the ability to invite other players to join a game session, match making services, and cross-platform game play.

Multi-tier online game play

The subject technology discloses configurations for receiving input device data via an unreliable data channel from a first computing device in which the input device data includes keyboard data, mouse input data and/or touch and gesture data from the first computing device. The subject technology determines a host client computing device among one or more second computing devices in a multiway video conference for receiving the input device data. Further, the subject technology transmits the input device data via a second unreliable data channel to the determined host client computing device, where the input device data is transmitted on a separate data channel from any video or audio data transmitted to the host client computing device.

Sharing input device data in a multiway video conference provided in an online social network

According to one general aspect, a method of presenting to a user a subset of applications that may be executed by a computing device is described. The subset of applications may be selected from a plurality of applications available an online marketplace for such applications. The method may include ranking the applications based on signals relevant to the relative desirability to the user of different applications, wherein at least one of the signals is based on information that is generated outside of the marketplace. The method may further include selecting the subset of applications based on their respective rankings. The method may also include presenting the selected subset to the user.

Ranking of digital goods in a marketplace

An online marketplace is provided to merchants of digital goods that may be downloaded from the marketplace to a client computing device for execution. A request is received from a party to the marketplace to list a digital good for sale in the marketplace. A primary price for the digital good is received. An opt-in service is offered that includes determining one or more derivative prices associated with the digital good, collecting the one or more derivative prices from a buyer of the digital good, and paying an amount based on the one or more derivative prices to the party to the marketplace. An incentive is provided to the party to accept the offer. After acceptance of the offer by the party, the derivative prices associated with the digital good are determined, the derivative prices are collected from a buyer of the digital good, and the amount based on the one or more derivative prices is paid to the party to the marketplace.

Incentivizing behavior to address pricing, tax, and currency issues in an online marketplace for digital goods

A computer application program executing on a computer, such as a portable computer, is selected for termination by first identifying computer application programs executing on the computer. A priority value is assigned to each of the identified computer applications. The priority value is based on multiple characteristics of the identified computer application programs. The computer application program with the smallest priority value is automatically terminated. If the computer application program with the smallest priority value is in a modal state in which it waits for a response from a user, then a default response is provided to the application prior to terminating the computer application program. The characteristics associated with the computer application programs may include average launch times, average memory usages, a class or type of application, frequencies of usage, and an amount of data stored on the computer by the computer application program.

System and method for priority-based selection of applications for termination

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Chee Heng Chew