Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Christopher Kevin Brownell

Jan Thomas Miksovsky

Michael John Novak

Daniel F Plastina

John Wesley Terrell

Eric Wayne Doerr

Stephen Cole

Sigmund Mandel

Justin B Magaram

Robert A Cape

Payee names in received financial statements can be substituted for the benefit of users. The financial statements can be electronically received from a financial services provider. The financial statements typically comprise transaction entries that comprise an original payee name. A user can indicate a preferred name for the original payee name. If a match exists between an original name and a preferred name, the preferred name can be substituted for the original payee name. If a match does not exist, an active payee table can be used to display an original payee name.

Method and system for correcting payee names and adjusting an account balance for a financial statement

Managing a plurality of states of metadata. Each of the states stores one or more items of metadata that have been automatically matched and obtained for media content (e.g., for rendering by a media player). The invention resolves the matched metadata by selectively applying some or all of the matched metadata items without user intervention (e.g., based on a user-specified threshold). In one embodiment, the invention selectively applies some or all of the matched metadata items based on a trustworthiness rating associated with the metadata match. The invention displays the remaining metadata items to the user for review and acceptance or rejection.

Resolving metadata matched to media content

A method and system for providing intelligent advice to a user. An architecture is described wherein trigger points are placed in an application program, and an advice engine invoked by the application when a trigger point is reached. The advice engine obtains information such as a user's application data, and uses the data to test it against a number of conditions for that trigger point. For each condition met, the advice engine retrieves an advice template for providing advice corresponding to the condition, and based on information in the template versus display state information, decides whether to queue the advice for subsequent display to the user. A display process displays the queued advice according to a priority setting maintained in the template.

Intelligent advisor system and method

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Christopher Kevin Brownell