Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

George R Robertson

Albert Gordon Greenberg

Mary P Czerwinski

Bongshin Lee

John C Tang

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Gina Danielle Venolia

Aaron C Hoff

Heather E Warncke

Xiaoyu Wang

Dave Maltz

David M Sirkin

A communication system is described herein which provides an indicator that helps hub participants of a meeting (or other environmental setting) determine a direction of attention of a satellite participant (who is not physically present at the meeting). The indicator can be implemented as a mechanical pointer, a solid-state display mechanism, a rotating display mechanism, a display mechanism which presents visual information that reflects directionality, and so on. The communication system can assess the directionality of the satellite participant based on any combination of control inputs from explicit input mechanism(s) and/or implicit input mechanism(s). The communication system can also choose between explicit and/or implicit control of the indicator based on at least one selection criterion.

Functionality for indicating direction of attention

Techniques are described for generating a user interface for visualizing a cloud service based on status and performance data of the cloud service obtained from data stores. A configuration file including declarative code may declare particular queries to status/performance data sources. The configuration file may also declare particular queries to topology data sources to obtain topology information. In accordance with the obtained information, objects representing the cloud service may be displayed. The objects correspond to particular hardware and software components, or logical grouping thereof, that are identified by the topology information.

Flexible visualization for services

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George R Robertson