Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Facebook, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Derek Cheng

Michael V Sliger

Thomas Dee McGuire

Deborah Liu

Mazhar Naveed Mohammed

Bowen Pan

Derek Menzies

Mary Pao-an Ku

Manojkumar Haridas Shende

Gary Scot Henderson

Hrishikesh S Raje

Vibha Rathi

Peter A Williams

Jianbo Hou

Neelima N Putrevu

Gary Henderson

Derek P Menzies

Peter Williams

Thomas D Mcguire

Mazhar Mohammed

The present disclosure is directed toward systems and method for managing social networking system for-sale groups. For example, systems and method described herein identify sale listings within social networking system for-sale groups and aggregates the identified sale listings into a personal town square for a particular social networking system user. Furthermore, systems and methods can reorder the personal town square based on likes and interests of the social networking system user.

Managing for-sale group postings

Provided are arrangements for delivering customized application or update notifications corresponding to a software application so that a user may be informed of the value of the application or update. In addition, the notifications may be rendered by a configurable notification mechanism so that the behavior of the notification, i.e., when and how often it is displayed, to what users and in what conditions, and the like, is also configurable. In this way, users become more invested in the application or update, are more likely to install the same, and become more aware of what changes to expect following installation.

Dynamic, customizable and configurable notification mechanism

A system and method for managing the installation of files on a computing device are provided. A client computing device obtains installation information identifying a version of a baseline installation component stored on the client computing device. The installation information also includes an installation component delta patch that is merged with the baseline installation component to generate an updated installation component. The updated installation component is utilized to install one or more files on the client computing device. Upon completion of the installation, the updated installation component can be deleted.

System and method for updating installation components using an installation component delta patch in a networked environment

A system and method for updating one or more files on a computing device are provided. A client computing device obtains update information including an index identifying particular delta patches with specific versions of installed files. Upon selecting which of the applicable updates will be implemented, an update agent on the client computing device performs an inventory to identify which version a file to be updated is installed on the machine. The update agent selects a corresponding delta patch and transmits the request to an update service.

System and method for updating files utilizing delta compression patching

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Derek Cheng