Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ivan Dijan

Berit Herstad

Oleg Melnychuk

Manfred Nysted Berry

Andreas Eide

Viral Shah

Sveinar Rasmussen

Lucian Baciu

Stefan Debald

Marius Tennoe

Zoran Dovedan

Dmytro Baglai

Alexander J Pope

Alexander Distel

Vikramjeet Singh Jassal

Alexander Kempton

Janaka C Perera

Ståle Sørensen

Context and social distance aware fast live people cards are described. A user context and/or a relevant person context may be determined in response to detecting a user interest in viewing contact information. The user context may include user's attributes such as organizational position, preferences, location, working hours, which application the user is employing, etc. Relevant person context may include context information (similar to the user's) for people within a predefined social distance such as the user's peers, supervisor(s), close friends, etc. Information associated with one or more persons of interest to the user may then be selected and retrieved from a cache storage at a server a productivity service to be provided to a client application for display to the user. Information to be stored in server cache for rapid retrieval may also be selected based on user and relevant person context using observed user behavior.

Context and social distance aware fast live people cards

A network map of an individual's implicit and explicit people relationships across multiple workloads is provided. Relationships between people may be leveraged and ranking for people relationships may be performed based on activities across multiple workloads. People relationships may be displayed in the network map to provide a visual understanding of relationships and connections. Navigation to any person represented in the network map may be enabled, and commonalities in relationships between a navigating user and a given person navigated to in the network map may be exposed. Trending items and activity streams for a person or group of persons may be shown in the network map.

Displaying and navigating implicit and explicit enterprise people relationships

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