Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Dvir Horovitz

Yekaterina Grabar

Chelsea Nicole Mitchell

Jyotkumar Jagdishbhai Patel

Srinivas Kanakapally

Romualdo T Impas

Daniel R Dole

Jason Andrew Chen

Ryuichi Hirano

Karl Eberhard Tolgu

Priya Bhushan Dandawate

Alexander Burmistrov

Andrew Alan Bell

Siddhika Nevrekar

Nikola Todic

Aleksandar Samardzija

Casey D Stein

Benny Hartono

Rijuta Ajay Trivedi

Dzmitry Dulko

Wensi Li

Viktor Halitsyn

Chia-Huei Yen

Ryan Honig

Jeongwoo Choi

Daniel Chin Hua Lau

Sudhakar Pitchumani

Vimal R Kocherla

Hemant Goyal

Jessica Leigh May

Andrew Bell

Jason Chen

Chelsea Mitchell

Jyotkumar Patel

Generating an interactive discovery feed of place of interest items (POIs) relevant to a user is provided. A relevant POI discovery feed system curates a collection of narratives about various POIs from multiple sources and generates a plurality of POI content feed items including content items (e.g., photos, maps, links to additional information or related POIs) extracted from the collection of narratives. The system determines a set of POIs relevant to a user based on user-selected topics of interest and user preferences inferred from signals generated from user interactions with the system, and generates a discovery feed of POI content feed items associated with the set of relevant POIs for display to the user. In some examples, the items are presented in a card-based UI. Users are enabled to easily discover new places, view photos, and learn more about POIs in a consistent presentation of POI-related content feed items.

Topic-based place of interest discovery feed

Architecture that comprises features that enable smart searches along a route based on time to entities along the route and off the route, a user experience (UX) that showcases rich entities along the route, saving, sharing and editing capabilities across devices and users, smart ranking and filtering of entities, and user preferences and digital personal assistant interaction. After an itinerary is built, the itinerary can be saved for future use and/or shared with friends and/or other devices. Users can change the itinerary on-the-go by searching and adding entities, at a later time, for example. A digital personal audio assistant can be utilized to provide guidance based on the itinerary, and ask users if they want to take a particular exit to visit some desired location (e.g., place of interest).

Search along the route

Systems and methods for sharing a map context of an originating computer user with a plurality of other users is presented. An originating user identifies at least some of a plurality of result cards displayed in conjunction with a map displayed in a browser view with one or more other users. A shared URL is generated according to the map context comprising at least the selected result cards. The shared URL is configured such that navigation by another browser on another computing device according to the shared URL displays the map context in a browser view of the another browser and the selected result cards in conjunction with the map in the browser view.

Sharing map context including result cards

A mapping system disclosed herein includes a requestor that transmits requests for different layer sets of mapping data for a digital map to one or more data sources across a network according to a predefined order. According to one implementation, the mapping system also processes and/or renders the different layer sets to a display according to the predefined order.

Prioritized requesting of mapping layers

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for populating a map interface with a route inspection portal and/or for generating travel route video. In an example, a map interface is populated with a map canvas illustrating a travel route. The map canvas is populated with inspection markers corresponding to imagery depicting travel route portions of the travel route. Responsive to identifying a selection of an inspection marker at an inspection location, imagery depicting the inspection location may be identified. The map canvas is populated with a route inspection portal for the inspection marker. The route inspection portal is populated with the imagery (e.g., street-side imagery of an intersection along the travel route). In an example, a travel route video, comprising video frames corresponding to an ordering of the imagery (e.g., from a start location to an end location) along the travel route, may be generated and/or played.

Route inspection portals

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Dvir Horovitz