Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Linkedin Corporation

Haipeng Li

Peter J Kaufman

Shayak Lahiri

Brian Stuart Perlman

Sean Anderson Bowles

Venkata Raghuram Pampana

Manoj Jain

Paul Ko

Peter John Richards

Dhruma Kishan Parikh

Ying Liu

Chi-Yi Kuan

Xiaosu Huang

Ho Joon Park

Swaminath Veeramani

Mariah E Walton

Valter Ernesto Sciarrillo

This document relates to a process for supporting the management of a variety of types of deployed devices. Administrators utilizing enterprise services can provide generic configuration data using configuration templates, which can be provided to a management server. The management server can then precompute device-specific configuration settings and resolve any conflicts that may arise based on the configuration templates. The configuration templates can also include placeholders for secret values, and once a managed device checks in to the management server, the secret values can be retrieved from an applicable enterprise service and provided to the managed device at the time of applying the configuration template.

Secure management of devices

A system and method includes an electronic data storage device to store activity data and profile data of members of a social network including content items individually associated with a content item topic. A processor may obtain the activity data and the profile data, determine an association of the social network topic with at least one of a plurality of social network genres based on the activity data, wherein individual ones of the social network genres are based, at least in part, on a category of the profile data. The processor may store the association of the social network topic with the at one of the plurality of social network genres, and cause a user interface to display information related to the content item topic based, at least in part, on the activity data associated with content items associated with the content item type.

Analytics application program interface

A system and method for content spread visualization includes obtaining activity data related to a content item of the social network, the activity data related to interactions by members of the social network with the content item. A processor generates the visualization based on the activity data, the visualization including indicia arranged in hierarchical branches, the branches extending radially from a primary indicia of the indicia, each of the indicia individually corresponding to one of the activity data and connected to at least one other one of the indicia with a couple based on a relationship between the corresponding ones of the activity data. The processor causes a user interface to display the visualization.

Social network content spread visualization

In cases where a user of a social network has lost access to one or more email addresses on file with the social network, the social network may confirm an identity of the user before issuing a new password. The social network may confirm the identity of the user by prompting the user to correctly identify pictures of members of the social network that are connected to the user, selecting or receiving a selection of a plurality of trustees (e.g., members of the social network who are connected to the user), prompting the trustees to confirm with the user that the user has lost the access, and receiving notification that at least a specified number of the trustees have confirmed with the user that the user has lost the access. After the social network confirms the identity, the social network may provide a new password to the user.

Confirming an identity of a user of a social network

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