Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ellen Steele

March Rogers

Gail Giacobbe

Bojana Ostojic

Anne M Archambault

Cedric Patrick Dussud

Nathaniel Eric Breskin Auer

Bradley Stevenson

Xuelei Sun

Jeremy Santy

Vaidyanathan Raghavan

Notifications are delivered to a user based in part on a user's current context. The notifications may be based on personal information (e.g. calendar events, tasks, alerts, and the like) as well as a context of a user. The notifications may be delivered using different types of notifications. The type of notification selected may be based on the current context of the user. Notifications may also be sent to other users (e.g. that are part of a trusted group) in response to a change in state of the event (e.g. the task completed). Instead of a user receiving notifications at preset times, notifications are delivered to the user using their current context. A group member may also create a message to another member requesting an action. When a response is made, the requesting group member receives a notification and the other group members may also receive notifications.

Smart notifications using a calendar

Social networking feed extensibility based on data types is described. An apparatus may comprise a custom feed system that when executed by a processor is operative to customize a social networking feed for a social networking system. The custom feed system may comprise a message reception component operative to receive a message from a client device, a message analysis component operative to determine a message type of the message based on a syntax of the message, and a message display component operative to display the message with a message display style specific to the message type of the message. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Social networking feed extensibility based on data types

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Ellen Steele