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Jacob Andrew Sabulsky

Zhaowei Charlie Jiang

Steven William Macbeth

Syed Muhammad Mujahid Hasan

Sashi Raghupathy

Manoj Kumar Biswas

Christopher Scott Dickens

Sermet Iskin

Sarjana Sheth

Ranjib Singh Badh

Harris Syed

Jayaraman Kalyana Sundaram

Zainab Hakim

Axel Andrejs

John Saxon Morrow

A bidirectional mapping is established between network content and application programs, based on declarations at both the network content and at the application. Additionally, bidirectional mapping can provide for deep links, which can associate specific network content with a specific presentation of data in an application program. The identification format for such deep links can conform to a predetermined standard or it can be custom implemented according to a format declared either as part of the network content or the application program. The bidirectional mapping is then utilized by a lookup service to provide functionality to a third-party entity. The lookup service can identify, to the entity, application programs associated with network content specified by that entity and network content associated with application programs specified by that entity.

Bidirectional mapping between applications and network content

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for dynamically maintaining user centric data. For example, a data provider app may have knowledge about user centric data associated with a user (e.g., a social network app may have contact information for a social network friend of the user). A user centric profile may be defined for the user centric data based upon information provided by the data provider app (e.g., a contact card may be generated for the social network friend). Responsive to receiving a request for the user centric profile from a requestor app (e.g., an event planning app), the user centric profile may be exposed to the user but not to the requestor app for security and/or privacy purposes. For example, an operating system may present at least some of the user centric profile within an operating system user interface.

User centric data maintenance

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