Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Lola Marie Ball

Song Zou

Gregory Thomas Mattox, Jr

Allison Anne O'Mahony

Brian Daniel Beck

Michael John Bray

Carmen Quan

Omobayonle AyoYinka Olatunji

Christopher Wallace Heuser

Patrick Seth Donoghue

Peter Nils Skillman

Eduardo Quijano Rivadeneyra

A computer-implemented technique is described herein for presenting notifications on a user interface presentation of a recipient computing device. The technique is considered tiered because it distinguishes between first-type (people-centric) notifications and second-type notifications, and because it processes and presents first-type notifications in a privileged manner compared to the second-type notifications. For instance, the technique presents content associated with each first-type notification in an allocated window that appears in positional association with a person indicator, where that person indicator identifies the person who sent the first-type notification; the technique presents each second-type notification in a different manner. In some implementations, an application developer who designs a custom first-type notification is given authority to draw within the allocated window that is used to present the custom first-type notification in a manner specified by the application developer.

Tiered notification framework

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Lola Marie Ball