Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Danilo Landucci Benzatti

Ahmed Hassan Mohamed

Shivakumar Seetharaman

Michael Anthony Faoro

Vanessa C Feliberti

Jason Andrew Cook

Gregory Bolles

Andrew Winslow Brough

Yeelin Tan

Gustavo Varo

Saliha Azzam

Jayaram N M Nanduri

Harish Jayanti

Rajasi Saha

Xiaoguang Qi

Chad A Zanonie

Michael Y Moon

Christopher J Mallery

Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are described for providing content recommendations to a requestor. In implementations, user event records associated with media items and content types may be stored, for instance, in an event catalog. A set of user scores may be generated based on a user-content score model and the user event records, where each generated user score represents an affinity between a user and a corresponding content type of the plurality of content types. A set of title scores may also be generated for a media item based on a title-content score model, where each generated title score represents an affinity between the media item and a corresponding content type. In response to a request, the sets of scores may be combined to generate a set of content recommendations to provide to the requestor.

Multi-content recommendation system combining user model, item model and real time signals

A string, identifying an item to be assigned to a physical resource, is hashed to obtain a numeric hash value. The numeric hash value is downscaled to obtain a bucket identifier that identifies a bucket that will hold the numeric hash value. The bucket is then deterministically mapped to a physical resource so that it can be retrieved without accessing a stored data structure representative of the mapping.

Deterministic mapping and uniform routing of items to physical resources using hash values

Enhanced input field features and techniques for displaying and resolving location information in meeting items are provided. In response to a user's interaction with a place name displayed in the location field of a user interface for a meeting item, up to date information is retrieved about the location associated with the place name from a web service and displayed. The display can include a map image tile. In addition to enabling the displaying of up to date information, during creation of the meeting item, the location input field of a meeting item can present location suggestions from within the location input field, for example, as a drop-down listing of possible locations. The suggestions for completing a user's input text string to the location input field can be obtained from sources such as a web service, a mailbox, a managed database/directory service, a history cache/database or a combination thereof.

Location context, supplemental information, and suggestions for meeting locations

An application programming interface (API) method for providing location related search capability to clients of an email and calendaring service is disclosed. In response to a request message from a client, a find place method defined in an API provided by an API service is invoked. The find place method parses the request message for parameters such as a query string or source-related identifier indicating a place name or address of a location to be searched, the culture/format for the search and results, a maximum number of results to be provided, the source of the location to search, and geo-coordinates of the place and/or the user. The parameters are used to query specified source(s). The results of the search are filtered and formatted to provide location information to the client.

Location services in email and calendaring web services

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Danilo Landucci Benzatti