Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Ho John Lee

Chad Carson

Omar Rogelio Alonso

Karen Shiells

Daniel T L Lee

Marc Eliot Davis

Haim Somech

Peter Bailey

Scott Joseph Counts

Hadas Bitran

Michael Ching

Nikhil Dandekar

Shubha Umesh Nabar

Scott Banachowski

Sean Andrew Suchter

Oded Nahir

Jeffrey D Friedberg

Eric Wai Ho Lau

Hyun-Ju Seo

Paul Alexander Dow

Shuang Guo

Charles Carson

Yuri Romanenko

Allen G Jones

Aditya Pal

The described implementations relate to communication platforms that are provided over computer networks. One implementation provides a system that can include a storage component configured to store a plurality of communications having a common connector. The system can also include a score computation component that is configured to compute scores reflecting semantic relationships between individual communications from the plurality of communications. The system can also include a summary generation component that is configured to select one or more of the individual communications, based on the scores, and generate a summary of the common connector. The summary can represent the selected individual communications. The system can also include at least one processor configured to execute one or more of the components.

System and method for generating social summaries

Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for enhancing the privacy of a personal search index. In some aspects, a personal cleartext document may be used to generate an encrypted document digest and an encrypted document on a first device. A second device may decrypt the document digest, build a personal search index based on the decrypted document digest, and store the encrypted document in a data store. The first device may subsequently receive a cleartext search query that is used to query the personal search index on the second device for encrypted documents.

Privacy enhanced personal search index

Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for sustained data protection. In particular, a data protector may define a set of access levels associated with content within data using a set of access policies (e.g., a partial access level to inventory data for an inventory server, a full access level to inventory data and billing data for a shopping website server, etc.). The data protector may secure (e.g., encrypt) the data to create protected data, so that clients may be unable to access content of the protected data without obtaining access through the data protector. In this way, the data protector may selectively provide clients with access to content within the protected data according to respective access levels for the different clients (e.g., access to inventory data, but not billing data, may be provided to the inventory server by the data protector).

Sustained data protection

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for managing policy and permissions profiles. Individuals or organizations are permitted to author profiles utilizing a profile template and publish such authored profiles for access and adoption by others. Users are able to import desired profiles and subsequently have those imported profiles applied each time he or she accesses an application or service to which the profile pertains. User interfaces from which users may view profiles associated with them, make alterations to settings of profiles associated with them, and/or select from a plurality of profiles for a particular application or service are also provided. Still further, recommendations may be provided to users for policy and permissions profiles based upon, for instance, crowd-sourcing, profiles adopted by social network connections of a user or other users that are 'like' a user, prior profile selections made by the user, and/or prior user behavior.

Managing policy and permissions profiles

The author ranking technique described herein is a technique to rank authors in social media systems along various dimensions, using a variety of statistical methods for utilizing those dimensions. More particularly, the technique ranks authors in social media systems through a combination of statistical techniques that leverage usage metrics, and social and topical graph characteristics. In various exemplary embodiments, the technique can rank author authority by the following: 1) temporal analysis of link sharing in which authority is computed based on a user's propensity to provide early links to web pages that subsequently become popular; 2) topical authority based on the author's links and content updates in specific topic areas; and 3) popularity and influence based on nodal properties of authors.

Ranking authors in social media systems

A method and system for transferring data files from a sever entity, such as a server computer, to a client entity, such as a client process running on a remote client computer. The data files are stored in a frequency domain form by the server entity. The client entity can specify certain characteristics for the transfer that may be represented as one or more parameters. Parameters may include a compression ratio and certain data enhancements. Default or computed parameters may be used by the server entity when no client-specified parameters are available. Upon receiving a request for a data file, the server entity retrieves the frequency domain form of the data file, quantizes frequency domain coefficients included in the frequency domain form of the data file according to the parameters, compresses the quantized frequency domain coefficients into a compressed data file, and transfers the compressed data file to the client entity.

Method and system for serving data files compressed in accordance with tunable parameters

The present invention provides a computer implemented method and apparatus for modifying data to be used by a client application in a client/server network. The steps for implementing the present invention include: transmitting information to the server computer from the client computer, wherein the transmitted information defines the intended use of data in a client application stored on the client computer; based on the transmitted information, modifying the data to optimize the data for its intended use by the client application, wherein such modification is performed by the server computer before transmitting the modified data to the client application. In the preferred embodiment, the modifications to the data are made as the request is made from the server application. The data modifications are performed by the server computer and are based on information about the client application's intended use of the data. Because the computations are made on the fly, the modified data files may be customized instantaneously.

On the fly server for modifying data characteristics for client-server network applications

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Ho John Lee