Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Lucian Baciu

Helge Grenager Solheim

Oleg Melnychuk

Manfred Nysted Berry

Andreas Eide

Rune Djurhuus

Stefan Debald

Ivan Dijan

Marius Tennoe

Dmytro Baglai

Alexander J Pope

Janaka C Perera

Dmitry Shaporenkov

Fredrik Holm

John Toews

Morgan Larsson

Anders Fagerhaug

Sarah Brodwall

Tiago Duarte Pregueiro Jerónimo

Context and social distance aware fast live people cards are described. A user context and/or a relevant person context may be determined in response to detecting a user interest in viewing contact information. The user context may include user's attributes such as organizational position, preferences, location, working hours, which application the user is employing, etc. Relevant person context may include context information (similar to the user's) for people within a predefined social distance such as the user's peers, supervisor(s), close friends, etc. Information associated with one or more persons of interest to the user may then be selected and retrieved from a cache storage at a server a productivity service to be provided to a client application for display to the user. Information to be stored in server cache for rapid retrieval may also be selected based on user and relevant person context using observed user behavior.

Context and social distance aware fast live people cards

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating enhanced search services. In an implementation, an enhanced search service receives a search query associated with a user and responsively identifies documents relevant to the search query. The enhanced search service also identifies a social label for each of the documents that is at least partly representative of how the document relates socially to the user. The enhanced search service replies to the search query with search results indicative of at least the documents and the social label for each of the documents.

Enhancing search results with social labels

A method, system, and one or more computer-readable storage media for visualizing ranking factors for items in a search result list are provided herein. The method includes generating a search result list for a query and generating a visualization of one or more ranking factors for each of a number of items in the search result list.

Visualizing ranking factors for items in a search result list

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