Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Darwin Kengo Yamamoto

Rodney Coleman Edwards

Brian W MacDonald

Melora Zaner-Godsey

Steven William Macbeth

Daniel Marantz

Christina Marie Koehn

Tammy Savage

Paul Ronald Ray

Allison Anne O'Mahony

Wende E Copfer

Keith Alan Regier

Zachary Gutt

Steven Tullis

Alec John Berntson

Steve Ballon

Hady Moustafa Abou El Kheir

Jerry Daniel Bain

Computer-storage media, methods, and systems for formatting and surfacing a badge are provided. The badge represents a graphical region presented in visual association with a search result on a web-results page. The format of the badge is initially dictated by a template that is automatically generated. Upon collecting performance information, a website owner is granted permission to alter the template and appearance of the badge, via a publisher portal. During interaction with the publisher portal, the website owner is prompted to provide feedback in order to manage parameters of the badge, such as uploading a visual representation of a logo, trademark, or other branded element, or specifying a type of metadata to be imported to the graphical region. Accordingly, the badge operates to improve a users' ability to distinguish between search results on the web-results page and assists users in confidently deciding upon and selecting a relevant search result.

Aiding search-result selection using visually branded elements

Methods, systems, graphical user interfaces, and computer-readable media for visually searching and exploring a set of objects are provided. A computer system executes a method that generates three-dimensional representations or two-dimensional representations for a set of objects in response to a user interaction with an interface that displays the three-dimensional representations or the two-dimensional representations. The interface includes filter controls, sorting controls, and classification controls, which are dynamically altered based on the content of a user query or the attributes of the objects in the three-dimensional representations or two-dimensional representations.

Visual search and three-dimensional results

A customizable service provider user interface is described. In an implementation, a user is logged onto a suite a web services, to which, the user has not previously logged on. A user interface is output having a plurality of portions, one or more of which are customizable by the user through use of one or more overlays to customize interaction with the suite of web services.

Customizable service provider user interface

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Darwin Kengo Yamamoto