Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jeffrey R Hemmen

Eric J Horvitz

Alexander G Gounares

Lili Cheng

Gary William Flake

Kamal Jain

Michael J Connolly

David Maxwell Chickering

George P Moromisato

Leonard Smith, Jr

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate verification or feedback in association with consumer transactions. In particular the architecture can image a transaction receipt, translate the image into text-based data, and extract relevant transaction data there from. Such relevant transaction data can be saved to a data store maintained or supervised by the customer and/or transmitted to authorized components that can benefit from data related to transaction histories, verification, and/or feedback.

Feedback loop for consumer transactions

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture or extension to an operating system (or component thereof) that can facilitate extensible themes for or advertising integration with a desktop that is managed by the operating system. In particular, the architecture can acquire advertisement content such as ads or advertiser skins, select suitable content for display, and configure the operating system to display the selected content. The architecture also provides mechanisms for identifying suitable locations as well as appropriate time for displaying the content.

Ad integration and extensible themes for operating systems

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Jeffrey R Hemmen