Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mansoor A Malik

Kevin D Morrison

Shiraz Jitendra Cupala

Eric Jonathan Hull

Archana Saseetharan

Siddharth Uppal

Yuri Dogandjiev

Rajiv Ramaiah

Rajesh Rangarajan

Aaron William Linne

Alexander Tobias Powell

Manasi Sharma

Beste Nazilli

Lei Yang

Sagar Nagaraja Shastry

Jason Thomas Faulkner

Thaddeus Adam Scott

Marcelo Daniel Truffat

Ekaterina Bassova

Matthew Benjamin Blank

Timothy Michael Cleary

John David Dunagan

Helen Jiahe Wang

Xiaofeng Fan

Mark H Masterson

Rajesh S Batheja

Sunitha Gorty

Scott Tomlin

Hyejin Yun

Kevin Daniel Morrison

Updating user-specific instances of a second application for individual users of a group based on a data file for the second application being shared via a collaboration object that corresponds to the group within a first application. The instances of the second application present each individual user with their own custom user experience that is configured to provide access to specific content based on object permissions data. An application extension is executable, by the first application, to extend content editing functionalities of the second application into the collaboration object. Responsive to specific content being associated with the collaboration object via the application extension, each of the instances of the second application may be automatically updated to provide direct access to the specific content. Thus, each user within the group defined for collaboration object can access the data file via the collaboration object and their own instance of the second application.

Updating user-specific application instances based on collaborative object activity

Systems and methods for displaying a teleconference session are described. Teleconference data including display streams is transmitted to a number of client computers. Each of the streams may include at least a video and an audio component. A user interface includes a first display area rendering a first stream and a second display area rendering a second stream. An event may occur that removes a video component from the first stream. In response to the event, the rendering of the first stream may be removed from the first display area, and one or more streams of the plurality of streams may be displayed in at least a portion of the first display area. Such techniques for modifying user interface displays based on the actions of select users that have transitioned to an audio-only mode can optimize the use of a display area.

Event conditioned views for communication sessions

Event conditioned views for teleconferencing sessions

A user interface may be utilized to allow a user to control display properties of online ad content on a hosting webpage (e.g., hosting ads from one domain on a webpage from a different domain). This may be accomplished by creating a cross-domain frame in the hosting webpage, which can contain the ad content. An instantiation of a user interface may be created on the hosting webpage that has an ability to control display properties of the cross-domain frame, thereby controlling display properties of the ad content in the cross-domain frame. Further, a task manager may be utilized as part of the user interface to facilitate a host of the hosting webpage to manage ad content.

User interface for online ads

Embodiments of the invention provide ways to update and permit third-party advertising content of a webpage developed using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML ('AJAX') techniques. An illustrative method includes registering a set of possible triggering events that can invoke an advertisement-update process, registering advertisement containers (portions of the webpage that can present the advertisements), receiving an indication that a triggering event has occurred, identifying (in some cases) advertisement containers whose advertisement content is to be updated, accessing third-party advertisement data that is stored outside of the domain of the webpage to receive the fresh advertising content, and presenting the fresh advertising content in the one or more advertisement containers.

Updating contents of asynchronously refreshable webpages

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