Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Facebook, Inc.

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Daniel Joseph Giambalvo

John Graham Keggi

Mao Xue

Brett David Brewer

Gueorgui Nikolov Djabarov

Alex David Weinstein

Jennifer Marie Lin

Benjamin Vanik

Timothy R Sullivan

Andrew Rothbart

Ashish Wahi

Keith Andrew Birney

Christopher Alexander Gist

Ash Wahi

Leonard M Kawell

Karim Taji Farouki

Mark James McNulty

Nicole Ashley Hamilton

Oliver R Roup

David B Dehghan

Kenneth A Showman

Nirmal Rajesh Soy

Jay Thaler

Carey Tanner

Dennis Craig Marl

Quan Wang

Thomas Alan Sponheim

Renan Jeffereis

Kristopher J Owens

Josh Juster

A social networking system permits users to store content presented by the social networking system and subsequently access the stored content associated with the users. A content item is stored in association with a user profile of a user that stored the content item and with one or more rules specifying criteria causing presentation of the stored content item to the user when satisfied. Additionally, a rule associated with a stored content item may specify a format in which the stored content item is presented when criteria associated with the rule are satisfied. When characteristics associated with a user satisfy criteria associated with a rule associated with a stored content item, the stored content item is included in a selection process determining content that is presented to the user.

Presenting previously presented content items stored by users of a social networking system

When a user sees a content item presented by a social networking system, the user may select an option to save the content item. When a user saves a content item, views saved content items, or otherwise indicates a present interest in a particular saved content item, the system recommends one or more additional items for the users to consume or save based on the seed saved content item. To find the additional content items, the system identifies other users who also saved the seed item and then finds other content items that these other users also saved at a rate that is disproportionately higher than the global save rates for the content items (which may be normalized by opportunities to save the content). Relevance for content items in other contexts may also be determined based on content items that have been saved by a user.

Recommending content items in a social network using delayed interaction

A first notification of a first action by a user with respect to a first content item may be received by a computer system, the first content item having a first relationship to the user. A second notification of a second notification by the user with respect to a second content item may be received by the computer system. The second content item may have a second relationship to the user, and at least a portion of the second content item may correspond to at least a portion of the first content item. A first property of the first relationship may be managed by the computer system based on the second notification.

Systems and method for managing content

Optimizing data rendering includes, in one embodiment, using templates to express a data request as a set of queries where each query in the set is prioritized based on, among other things, context factors such as capabilities of the requesting device, network factors, and user context. After generating the set of queries, each query in the set of queries is then executed to progressively populate the template with the requested data. As the queries are executing, the templates are progressively rendered.

Data rendering optimization

A scene comprising a set of visual elements may allow a user to perform 'zoom' operations in order to navigate the depth of the scene. The 'zoom' semantic is often applied to simulate optical visual depth, wherein the visual elements are presented with different visual dimensions and visual resolution to simulate physical proximity or distance. However, the &#x201c;zoom&#x201d; semantic may be alternatively applied to other aspects of the visual elements of a scene, such as a user selection of a zoomed-in visual element, a &#x201c;drill-down&#x201d; operation on a data set, or navigation through a portal in a first data set to view a second data set. These alternative &#x201c;zoom&#x201d; semantics may be achieved by presenting the effects of a &#x201c;zoom&#x201d; operation within the scene on the visual presentation of the visual element in a manner other than an adjustment of the visual dimensions and resolution of the visual element.

Alternative semantics for zoom operations in a zoomable scene

An application programming interface (API) for administering the distribution of software updates on an update service node is presented. The API provides a plurality of interface calls through which an administrator can establish rules by which software updates available to the update service node are distributed.

Application programming interface for administering the distribution of software updates in an update distribution system

Automatic download of personalized media content to a portable media device based on user preferences is disclosed. A media service can evaluate content on a user's media device as well as user action related thereto to infer the user's preferences, and can automatically aggregate and download content that is relevant to the user's tastes. The user can subscribe to, for example, playlists generated by the media service, another user's playlist(s), a simulated radio station, etc., and can receive content updates thereto at predefined intervals and/or upon release of the updates. In this manner, the user can periodically receive media content that is personalized to the user without requiring the user to explicitly request the content or synchronize to a PC.

Automatic delivery of personalized content to a portable media player with feedback

A modular and flexible framework for creating search systems of networked resources. The framework utilizes an abstraction layer between a user of network resources and the underlying resource types and access methodologies to allow the processing of different resource types simultaneously. The system framework accepts resource types and access methodologies through self-contained modules which can be easily deployed and combined. The end result is a unified search system capable of handling heterogeneous network resources and resources from heterogeneous network access methodologies with a single point of access for the user, and simplified setup for the administrator.

Framework for creating search systems of networked resources

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Daniel Joseph Giambalvo