Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Douglas Ray Pearce

Oludare Victor Obasanjo

Robert Michael Dolin

Seung-Hae Park

David J Cheng

Robert Warren Piper

Kerstin Weinberg

Jennie Park Telehowski

Ken H Chin

Mohammed Arshad Hussain

Jason Fergus Moore

Omar H Shahine

Holly Knight

Carlos G Perez

Praveen Seshadri

John R Selbie

Jeffrey Craig Kunins

Paul A Elliott

Arwa Zoher Tyebkhan

Gyorgy K Schadt

Ann Marie Hudspeth

Yisheng Chen

Ronak M Shah

György K Schadt

Jason Kahn

Michael W Gelon

Weston Haught

Cleve Littlefield

Kim Manis

Systems and methods for opening a file via a user device. One system includes an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive a request to open the file, determine a file type of the file, determine an application installed on the user device configured to open files of the file type, and determine a version of the application installed on the user device. The electronic processor is also configured to compare the version of the application installed on the user device to a predetermined version, and selectively open the file using a web-based adaptation of the application based on comparing the version of the application installed on the user device to the predetermined version.

Accessing a file using a web-based adaptation of an application based on a version of the application installed at a user device

The claimed subject matter decreases duplicate entries and loops in an activity record. An exemplary method comprises analyzing a new entry from a user to determine an originating service and a type of activity and extracting an identifying portion of the new entry. The identifying portion includes a predetermined number of characters at a beginning of the entry. Additionally, the predetermined number of characters is based on a likelihood of duplicates in the activity record. The identifying portion is compared to a list of prior entries from the user, and an exclusion action is performed, if the new entry matches one in the list of prior entries. The exclusion action may be to hide the new entry, to delete the new entry, or to collapse the new entry into a matching prior entry.

Decreasing duplicates and loops in an activity record

News feed techniques are described. In implementations, content is parsed from one or more emails that are addressed to a user. The parsed content from the email is exposed, automatically and without user intervention, for output in a news feed of the user.

News feed techniques

A relationship-based communications service system receives a communication from a source destined to a recipient. The recipient is capable of receiving the communication at a computing device. The communication service system determines a first relationship type based on a satisfied relationship condition between the source and the recipient. The communications service system sends a relationship-qualified version of the communication to the recipient based on the determined first relationship type. The relationship-qualified version of the communication of the determined first relationship type is annotated to present a different user interface behavior to the recipient at the computing device than a relationship-qualified version of the communication of a second relationship type.

Communications control for resource constrained devices

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for remotely submitting content to a website without navigating to the website are provided. The website is a content-sharing website that accepts public content submissions and makes the content available to multiple users. Initially, a client application may download remote-content-submission instructions from the website. Subsequently, the client application may follow the instructions to format a remote content submission and communicate it to the website.

Automated content submission to a share site

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method for decreasing duplicate entries and loops in an activity record such as on a user's page on a social networking site. An exemplary method comprises analyzing a new entry from a user to determine an originating service and a type of activity and extracting an identifying portion of the new entry. The identifying portion is compared to a list of prior entries from the user, and an exclusion action is performed, if the new entry matches one in the list of prior entries. The exclusion action may be to hide the new entry, to delete the new entry, or to collapse the new entry into a matching prior entry.

Tools and techniques related to progressively discovering and integrating services are provided. These tools may receive electronic communications addressed to users of communications platform software. In turn, these tools may analyze the electronic communications, and generate upsells for presentation to the users. These upsells may relate to updating profile records associated with the users.

Progressively discovering and integrating services

A system and/or methodology that enables personalization as a platform service for applications via a rich data view. More particularly, the subject invention provides for a rich data view to be rendered to an end-user whereas management of the data can be effected (e.g., personalized) thereafter. In other words, the invention enables a user to establish and access personalized mechanisms via a rich data view. The personalized mechanisms are based upon rule-based logic with respect to application data types.

Rich end-user data views

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Douglas Ray Pearce