Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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Jonathan Rabin

Dikla Dotan-Cohen

Sagi Hilleli

Ido Cohn

Daniel Avigdor

Technology for interoperability is disclosed by enabling the sharing of application state data for an application experience across computing devices, operating systems, applications, or locations. In one aspect, a secondary application shares encrypted state data along with a non-encrypted hint that describes the application experience reflected in the state data with a primary application. The primary application is then able to use the hint to determine that a user is interested in returning to the experience in the secondary application. The primary application then transfers the encrypted state data to the secondary application, which uses the state data to return the application to the application experience. A platform and an application programming interface (API) are provided for computer applications and services to store and retrieve application state data associated with an event.

Multi-application state navigation

Pieces of location history data corresponding to an identified place of interest are obtained. Each piece of the obtained location history data references one or more signals detected at the identified place of interest and also references temporal data that corresponds to the detected signal(s). Some of the obtained pieces of location history data that represent one or more short, pass-through visits at the identified place of interest are identified. Based on the identified pieces that represent the short visit(s), conditions for determining the intent of future detected location visits at the identified place of interest are generated. The generated conditions can then be employed to determine that a detected location visit of a particular computing device determined to be at the identified place of interest is an extended visit as opposed to a short visit.

Personalized identification of visit start

Technology for interoperability is disclosed by enabling the sharing of application state data for an application experience across computing devices, operating systems, applications, or locations. In one aspect, a secondary application shares encrypted state data along with a non-encrypted hint that describes the application experience reflected in the state data with a primary application. The primary application is then able to use the hint to determine that a user is interested in returning to the experience in the secondary application. The primary application then transfers the encrypted state data to the secondary application which uses the state data to return the application to the application experience. A platform and application programming interface (API) are provided for computer applications and services to store and retrieve application state data associated with an event.

Aspects of the technology described herein identify a trusted group of devices that collaborate to minimize device limitations (e.g., data use, bandwidth, battery life, and the like). Personal assistant services or cloud-based services utilize user data (e.g., web browsing, calendar entries, communication data, social networks, and the like) and device data (e.g., location data, Bluetooth beacons, Wi-Fi, and the like) provided by user devices to identify devices in the trusted group of devices. A handshake between the devices establishes a means of communication and a selected topology. A hub device is selected from the trusted group of devices to upload or download relevant data based on the selected topology. The hub device shares the relevant data with the member devices via the established means of communication.

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Jonathan Rabin