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Derrick Yeqiang Quan

Saliha Azzam

Harish Jayanti

Kfir Ami-ad

Keith Robert Kinnan

Srinivasa Raghavan Santhanam

Gaurav Bindlish

Sean Richard Smith

Moses Yap

Mitali Prakash Shenoy

Payel Hazra

Jason Thomas McNamee

A system for creating a target audience group includes receiving a request from a user interface screen, to create a target audience group from among users of an organization associated with a cloud computing environment, where the request including selected values for a plurality of categories of data associated with the users of the organization. Upon receiving the request; the method creates an audience targeting definition for the target audience group that includes the plurality of categories of data and their selected values and stores the audience targeting definition to a data store. Next, one or more data sources of the cloud computing environment are queried to identify users for which values for the categories of data corresponds with the selected values and a list of those users is stored in a different data store. The list of the users is then made available to a plurality of applications of the cloud computing environment for communicating with or presenting an experience to the members of the target audience group.

Unified audience targeting system

A method of displaying a network graph with a computing system includes accessing data defining a network and including a plurality of vertices and a plurality of edges. If a number of vertices included in the network graph is below a first threshold, the network graph is locally rendering with a scalable vector graphics rendering engine of the computing system. If a number of vertices included in the network graph is between the first threshold and a second, higher, threshold, the network graph is locally rendered with a raster rendering engine of the computing system. If a number of vertices included in the network graph is above the second threshold, a remotely-rendered network graph rendered by a remote rendering engine is received at the computing system. The method further includes displaying the rendered network graph via a web browser of the computing system.

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Derrick Yeqiang Quan