Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Henry Hooper Somuah

Cesare John Saretto

Kathleen Patricia Mulcahy

Nicholas Ferianc Kamuda

Peter Tobias Kinnebrew

Douglas C Hebenthal

Matthew John McCloskey

Alan Geller

Sergey Bykov

Gabriel Kliot

Felix Cheung

Jorgen Thelin

Michael William Malyuk

Tamir Melamed

Robert Louis Rodi

Andrew Alexander Hesky

Stuart Alan Wyatt

Dillon Shane Lynch

Eduardo De Mello Maia

Alan Stuart Geller

Eduardo De Maia

Matthew John Mccloskey

Kathleen P Mulcahy

A system finds and aggregates the most relevant and current information about the people and things that a user cares about. The information gathering is based on current context (e.g., where the user is, what the user is doing, what the user is saying/typing, etc.). The result of the context based information gathering is presented ubiquitously on user interfaces of any of the various physical devices operated by the user.

Contextual based information aggregation system

Technologies are described herein for event delivery and stream processing utilizing virtual processing agents. Upon receiving an event publication in a queue, a runtime system identifies one or more virtual processing agents that might be interested in, but have not explicitly subscribed to, the published event. Event information of the published event is then delivered to the identified virtual processing agents. Prior to the actual delivery, the runtime system further determines if the virtual processing agents have been activated and activates those processing agents that have not been activated. Based on the received event information, some of the virtual processing agents might decide to explicitly submit subscriptions to receive more events from the queue. The explicit subscriptions will trigger the runtime system to deliver the subscribed events to the processing agents, which might include past events that have been published in the queue before the explicit subscription is received.

Stream processing utilizing virtual processing agents

A system automatically and continuously finds and aggregates the most relevant and current information about the people and things that a user cares about. The information gathering is based on current context (e.g., where the user is, what the user is doing, what the user is saying/typing, etc.). The result of the context based information gathering is presented ubiquitously on user interfaces of any of the various physical devices operated by the user.

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for improving location awareness of a device. A device position can be determined (e.g., via GPS or some location service), and this position can be used to identify a user-experience that may be in an area around the device, such as within a desired position threshold. A near-field radio system beacon that is associated with the user-experience can be activated in order to identify a distance of the device from the beacon. The beacon can use a near-field radio system ID associated with the device to identify the device, and determine a distance to the device. When a user moves the device to within a threshold distance from the beacon, the user-experience can be activated on the device, such that the user may interact with the user-experience (e.g., to hear a description of artwork as the user navigates through a museum).

Device location detection

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