Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Dropbox, Inc.

Joshua C Zana

Kathleen Patricia Mulcahy

Nir Nice

Cyrus Kanga

Shiraz Jitendra Cupala

Neil Warren Black

John Darren Elliott

Todd R Manion

Boyd Cannon Multerer

Melissa Wood Dunn

Zhangwei Xu

Szymon Piotr Stachniak

Kenneth Alan Lobb

David Richard Reed

Jason Robert Tuck

Russell P Songco

William F Schiefelbein

Mario Esposito

Matthew Jason Pope

Clinton Chi-Wen Woon

Alain Philippe Maillot

Wyatt Douglas Jackson

Hansen Liou

Howard Benjamin Nager

Shyam Sujeewa Habarakada

Heather Grantham Brodie

Alexander D Tudor

Andrew Lawson

Tristan Pendergrass

Matthew Alan Medak

Don F Box

Eric Christopher Voreis

Ronald Oswin Pessner Jr

Marc Victor Haddah

Alexander James Soule

Shyam S Habarakada

Technologies for synchronizing content items across cloud systems are provided. An example method can include receiving, by a first content management system (CMS), authentication information associated with a second CMS; based on the authentication information, establishing a communication channel between the first CMS and second CMS; using the communication channel, providing a user interface identifying collections of content items stored on the second CMS; receiving, by the first CMS, a request to create a first collection of content items based on a second collection of content items selected by a user account from the user interface, the second collection being stored on the second CMS; creating, by the first CMS, the first collection in association with the user account; populating the first collection with placeholders corresponding to content items in the second collection; and upon detecting a change to the second collection, updating the first collection to reflect the change.

Technologies for synchronizing content items across content management systems

Embodiments of the invention provide a companion application that allows users to discover secondary content that supplements primary content that the user is enjoying and to run the secondary content within the application. Examples of primary content include, games, television shows, movies, and music. In one embodiment, a companion application runs on both the primary device, which is the device generating the primary content, and on the companion device. The companion application helps the user discover available secondary content. In addition to discovering secondary content that may be relevant to the user, the companion application includes an application-run environment in which secondary content applications may run.

Media-aware interface

Embodiments of the present invention provide secondary content that is synchronized to progress within a primary media content. The secondary content, may be a comment, an emote, a poll, a contextual advertisement, a special feature, or other communication synchronized to a particular point in the media. Examples of media include movies, games, television shows, sporting events, video conferences, online chat sessions, and others. Some events are synchronized using time sequencing to a particular spot within a time-based media content. The events may be published through social media outlets. The progress point associated with the event may be directly accessed by selecting a link within the event.

Synchronization of media interactions using context

Grouping personal accounts to tailor a web service may be accomplished by grouping information from two or more personal accounts. In some embodiments, a personal account may include a set of persons. By grouping personal accounts, a service provider may tailor a web service to multiple people based on information about those people.

Grouping personal accounts to tailor a web service

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Joshua C Zana