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John D Skovron

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Louis S Harvey

Denis Lavoie

Jeffrey C Fong

Shai Guday

Joseph H Matthews, Iii

Sharad Agarwal

Joseph Spencer King

Raman Kumar Sarin

Jae Pum Park

Vishal Vikram Ghotge

Michael J Connolly

John David Bruner

Mahendra D Sekaran

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Dhigha D Sekaran

Aaron Naoyoshi Sheung Yan Woo

Jason Craig Nelson

Eric Jonathan Hull

Jeffrey B Kay

Shawn M Thomas

Joseph Alton Schrader

Matthias Baer

Andrew Paul Begun

Amey Parandekar

Gregory Alan Howard

Christopher Raykovich

Ted Tai-Yu Chen

Anish Desai

John Yovin

Sogol Malekzadeh

Jonathan Aroner

David A Braun

Frank Stephen Serdy, Jr

Michael Burt Goulding

Reid Joseph Kuhn

Alan Bennett Auerbach

Aaron Woodman

Sandipan Ganguly

Andrew Haon

Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy

Shashidhar Rajashekara

Monica Gonzalez

Jon Arnett

Ray Froelich

Stephen Speicher

Ramasubramanian Shastri

Tript Singh Lamba

Karen G Luk

Todd Myles Derksen

Bernardo Iturriaga Dubost

Ramkumar Natarajan

Eugen Pajor

James C O'Brien

Jennifer Anne Karr

Claudiu G Diaconu

David W Brodsky

Oana Silvia I Nica

Bayo Olatunji

Andrew Peter Schoorl

Karen Luk

Methods and systems for determining an upgrade readiness metric of a tenant in a cloud environment. One method includes receiving, with an electronic processor, device telemetry data for a plurality of devices associated with a first plurality of tenants in the cloud environment and receiving, with the electronic processor, software telemetry data for a second plurality of tenants in the cloud environment. The method also includes determining, with the electronic processor, the upgrade readiness metric for the tenant based on the device telemetry data and the software telemetry data and displaying the upgrade readiness metric within a user interface.

Tenant upgrade analytics

In embodiments of restricted execution modes, a mobile device can display a device lock screen on an integrated display device, and transition from the device lock screen to display a shared space user interface of a shared space. The transition to display the shared space user interface is without receiving a PIN code entered on the device lock screen. The mobile device implements a restricted execution service that is implemented to activate a restricted execution mode of the mobile device, and restrict access of a device application to device content while the restricted execution mode is activated. The restricted execution service can also allow a shared device application that is included in the shared space access to the device content while the restricted execution mode is activated.

Restricted execution modes

A mobile device having capabilities to access connections to cellular and Wi-Fi portions of a hybrid telecommunications network is configured to display a variety of different icons that graphically indicate a current connection status for both data usage and voice calling on a graphical user interface (GUI). A user can put the GUI into an expanded state to show additional information about the connection status including textual descriptions of icons to instruct the user as to the specific meaning of a given icon. The textual descriptions enable an association between the iconography and the connection state to be established for the user. The icons can then quickly and effectively convey connection state to the user in a comprehensive manner while efficiently using the available display space on the device.

Hybrid telecommunications network connection indicator

A mobile device utilizes a two-stage dialing solution when roaming on a visited mobile operator (MO) network to implement centralized routing so that a home network portion of a hybrid network is inserted into the path of outbound calls. A remote centralized routing (CR) service interoperates with a CR client on the mobile device. When a call is initiated to a remote party, the CR client calls into an arbitrary roaming routing number that is terminated in the home network. Once the call is connected between the mobile device and home network, the CR client sends a dialing string that includes a destination number of the remote party. The CR service calls the destination number and then bridges the calls to the mobile device and remote party to establish an end-to-end call path between the local and far ends of the call that traverses the home network.

Centralized routing in hybrid networks

A method for exchanging information between two communication devices includes communicating first identity information from a first communication device to a second communication device over a short-range communication link in response to an event. A second identity is received from the second communication device over the short-range communication link. The first identity information identifies a user of the first communication device and the second identity information identifies a user of the second communication device. Based on the first and second identity information, information is obtained specifying at least one attribute of the first and second users that they have in common.

Sharing of information common to two mobile device users over a near-field communication (NFC) link

An apparatus and method for an advisor referral tool for objectively matching professional services between users and advisors in an on-line or computer based environment. The advisor referral tool matches users with professional advisors by executing an advisor matching algorithm to select a subset of advisors from an advisor database based on user selected search criteria. A server computer calculates a percent match value for each advisor in the subset of advisors that corresponds to consumer responses to predetermined psychographic/profile questions. The server computer then creates a best fit advisor list of advisors from the subset of advisors that is based on the calculated percent match value. The best fit advisor list is then transmitted to and displayed on the user's computer.

Advisor referral

Advisor referral tool

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