Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Licencing Corporation, LLC

Gilad Oren

Adi Ben-Dayan

Eran Yariv

Fadi Haik

Or Kaplan

Jose D Saura

Shiv Nandan Singh

Social relationships are detected between a plurality of users. A set of user activity logs is input, where these logs originate from one or more network services and cover a prescribed period of time. Each of the logs originates from a particular one of the services and includes a structured data stream that records each interaction that each of one or more of the users has with the particular one of the services. This structured data stream includes a timestamp specifying when this interaction occurred, and a public network identifier specifying a network address from which this interaction occurred. The set of user activity logs is then analyzed to detect a prescribed kind of social relationship between the users. A data structure is then generated that identifies the users between whom the prescribed kind of social relationship is detected, and the data structure is output.

Detecting social relationships from user activity logs

Architecture that generates a notification when a user arrives at a location, but without exposing identity of the location. Moreover, the notification can be generated and transmitted at all times. The architecture comprises a reminder service that manages all reminder requests and approvals, a notification engine that notifies a requesting user when target user arrived at a specific location or one of a general category of location, and a user interface that allows the user to set reminders that are displayed when the target user arrives at the point of interest and approves other user reminder requests. The architecture can be run on a mobile phone, and manages user requests and user approvals for location based notifications, alerts a requesting user the target user arrived at one of previously-specified points of interest. Similarly, a general category of destination can be specified, rather than a specific point of interest.

Location based notification services

Architecture that facilitates power conservation in mobile devices such as cell phones using prediction. The architecture is an algorithmic-based solution that transforms infrequently-captured geolocation data of an entity into a continuous probable location approximation. Given the location history and additional data about the recent location of the mobile device, the current location of the device can be estimated with some probability. Additionally, given the location history and additional data about the recent location of the device, the probability of the device actually being at a given point on a map is computed.

Prediction for power conservation in a mobile device

Location-based notification services

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Gilad Oren