Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mahendra D Sekaran

Amer A Hassan

Russell Andrew Penar

Sankaran Narayanan

Michael J Davis

John David Bruner

Vadim Eydelman

Dhigha D Sekaran

Jeffrey B Kay

Danny Levin

Krishnan Ananthanarayanan

Anish Desai

Scott Edward Van Vliet

Rajesh Ramanathan

Edward Charles Giaimo, Iii

Bimal Kumar Mehta

Humayun Mukhtar Khan

Gursharan Singh Sidhu

Amey Parandekar

Mansoor Jafry

Kerry Woolsey

Amit Kumar Dutta

Ganapathy V Raman

Vijay Manian

Ray Froelich

Mieszko G Matkowski

Eugen Pajor

Rod G Fleck

Vishal Vikram Ghotge

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Gurdeep Singh Pall

Paul D Tidwell

Namendra Kumar

Roy D Kuntz

Abhilash Chandrasekharan Nair

Vishal Soni

Arulkumar Elumalai

Sumit Garg

Eric S Hamilton

Frank Stephen Serdy, Jr

Reid Joseph Kuhn

John D Skovron

Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy

Dan Knudson

Gaurav Pancholi

Li Shen

Vinit Deshpande

Marc Boyer

Sundaram Anantharaman

Ronald F Johnson

Rui Maximo

Tript Singh Lamba

Vishak Gopal

Ken Wolfe

Tony Bell

Ramkumar Natarajan

Lingzhi Cao

Philip Ibo Ibrahima Drammeh

Michael Daum

Russell P Bennett

Bayo Olatunji

Andrew Peter Schoorl

Amer Aref Hassan

Edward C Giaimo Iii

Systems for customizing user interfaces displaying an image of multiple participants of a communication session are disclosed. A system allows a user to make one or more selections of attendees from a video stream that includes multiple attendees, such as video captured by a conference room camera. In response to the selection, the system generates new video streams or images for each of the selected attendee(s) by extracting images of the selected attendee(s) from the video stream of the conference room camera. The system displays additional renderings for the new video streams or images to accompany the rendering of the video stream of the conference room camera. By allowing users to generate additional renderings of people from images that are initially displayed in a group video, the system can allow viewers to control the display of details of each person that may not be observable from the initial group image.

Customization of a user interface displaying a rendering of multiple participants of a hybrid communication session

Methods, machine-readable mediums, devices, and systems for joining a participant to a meeting in a modified join mode. A join mode comprises one or more configurable operational parameters within an network-based communication service that specifies the manner in which a participant is integrated into a network-based real-time interactive communication session such as a network-based meeting. Specifically, the join mode encompasses various privacy and visibility options that can be applied when a participant enters the meeting. One such option includes a presence concealment feature that, when activated, hides the joining participant's presence from one participant, one or more specific participants, or all participants within the meeting.

Communication session join modes and auto join

The techniques disclosed herein provide enhanced security features for controlling access to shared content and private content of a document. A system can enable multiple users to access a common content file, such as a Word document. Each user can add additional private content unique to each individual user. Private content associated with a particular user is restricted from being shared with any other user. Thus, when a first user opens a file authored and/or owned by other users stored in a cloud storage service, the system allows that first user to see the common content that is shared by the other users plus private content that is unique to the first user, but not allow the first user to view other private content provided by the other users.

Enhanced security features for controlling access to shared content and private content of a shared document

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums which automatically initiate a connection to a network-based communication session using a second communication application responsive to the communication service detecting that the user is unable to join the network-based communication session using a first communication application. The first and second communication applications may be on a same or different computing device. For example, if a user's desktop device is unavailable or experiencing connection issues, then the communication server may automatically request that a communication application on a mobile phone of the user join the network-based communication session.

Server initiated communication session join after endpoint status check failure

A system that can coordinate user interface formats having customized threads comprising messages from a common thread. Each client device can be managed by a data structure that defines thread containers, where individual thread containers define threads and topics for each thread. Each thread can also be associated with unique groups of messages. The data structure can cause each client computer to display different user interface formats, with each format showing different threads for each user. Individual devices can control displayed threads according to a topic limit so that displayed messages can be limited for optimizing the use of a display screen and other computing resources. The system provides more granular control of user interface formats to allow users to separate messages of high-priority topics.

Coordination of message thread groupings across devices of a communication system

In some embodiments, a location of a mobile terminal is determined by obtaining a location of a first access point (AP), receiving a visibility indication indicating that a second AP received a signal from the first AP or the first AP received a signal from the second AP, determining a location of the second AP based on the received visibility indication and the location of the first AP, determining a location of the mobile terminal in communication with the second AP based on the determined location of the second AP, and transmitting a message indicating the location of the mobile terminal on a digital communication network.

Distributed location determination in wireless networks

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, machine-readable mediums that provide for multiple concurrent message input elements in a messaging application to allow for saved draft messages. The improved interfaces allow a user to compose separate, respective responses to multiple incoming messages of a same messaging thread. As noted, the current messaging user interface (UI) only allows users to compose a response to a single message of a same messaging thread. In the present disclosed interface, if during composition of a 'reply' to message A, and a user decides to first reply to message B, the in-process reply message is saved in a separate selectable input element. The user may edit and send the reply to message A at a later time—e.g., once they are done replying to message B. In some examples, the separate selectable input element may be positioned in the thread in a manner to indicate that it is a draft reply message and to which message it is a reply.

Messaging multi-reply

A system and method for identifying the next speaker from multiple meeting participants requesting to speak in a virtual meeting and persistently displaying a visual interruption symbol for the next speaker is disclosed. The system is configured to maintain a display of the visual interruption symbol along with a visual representation of the next speaker at a position of each meeting interface associated with meeting participants while changing displays of other visual representations of other participants at other positions of each meeting interface. The system is also configured to suppress displays of other visual interruption symbols from other participants of the virtual meeting.

Queue management for visual interruption symbols in a virtual meeting

A system provides dynamically controlled participation allocations for communication sessions. A system can create a queue for participants of a communication session, such as an online meeting. The queue can be generated for a communication session having an intended format that allows participants to individually speak in succession, such as a Question and Answer (Q&A) session. The system manages a user interface (UI) of the communication session displaying a timer that changes dynamically for each participant indicating a total time for his or her questions or comments based on an amount of time left for the meeting to end. The system displays, augments, and associates a timer for each participant indicating a total time for his or her questions or comments, which is based on an amount of time left for the meeting to end, number of users providing a 'hand raise' input, and history of participation for each participant.

Dynamically controlled participation allocations for communication sessions

A system that can coordinate user interface formats having customized threads comprising messages from a common thread. Each client device can be managed by a data structure that defines thread containers, where individual thread containers define threads and topics for each thread. Each thread can also be associated with unique groups of messages. The data structure can cause each client computer to display different user interface formats, with each format showing different threads for each user. Users engaged in a chat on a parent thread can split the parent thread into multiple child threads, that can each be associated with unique topics. The system can then associate individual messages of the parent thread with each child thread. The system provides more granular control of user interface formats to allow users to separate messages of high-priority topics.

Disclosed in some examples are systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums for improved communications between a software-defined radio front-end device and a network-based computing device. Rather than packetize samples together, same bit positions from multiple ADC samples may be packetized together. If a Quality of Service (QoS) metric of the network connection between the RF front-end device and the network-based processing computing drops below a threshold, the RF front-end device may prioritize sending packets with the more significant bits over packets with less significant bits. In other examples, the RF front-end device may prioritize samples corresponding to certain data types over other data types.

Packet prioritization for network-based software-defined radio

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Mahendra D Sekaran