Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Other

Zhigu Holdings Limited

Marc Adam Silbey

Cornelis K Van Dok

Venkatraman V Kudallur

Roberto Anthony Franco

Jonathan David Perlow

Aaron J Sauve

Paul Pak

Denise L Chen

Fabio Pettinati

Shankar Ganesh

Eric M Lawrence

John-Anthony Owens

Carl A Edlund

Govind Varshney

Robert Impollonia

Jim A Moore

John Green Bedworth

Peter T Brundrett

Paul Cutsinger

Vivien Park

Jianrong Gu

Roland Tokumi

Lane Merrifield

Jeremiah S Epling

Vita G Markman

Anantha P Ganjam

Sean O'Dell

Kevin Yockey

Drew Beechum

Christopher E Adamson

Bogdan M Tepordei

Michael L Vanloon

James C Warnock

Charity J Gerbrandt

Amanda D Penner

Daniel Sie

Vidya Nallathimmayyagari

Adam Semeniuk

Gail Giacobbe

Joel K Grossman

Zeke Book Odins-Lucas

Christopher W Heatherly

Li-Hsin Huang

John Holbrook Crocker

Ahsan Syed Kabir

Samuel R Fortiner

Christian P Shrigley

Arkady G Trestman

Jordan Luther King Schwartz

Cees Van Dok

Kip Martin

Scott Lahay

Herman H Ng

Stephane Jankowski

Kevin O'Sullivan

Shawn Clark

Stephen A Turton

Bhargavi Hiremagalur

Hilary Palmen

Sandra Barnet

Koichi Tsunoda

Michael Vanloon

Paul L Cutsinger, Jr

A method and system is disclosed for evaluating a chat message sent between users of an online environment. The method may include receiving a chat message and parsing the message into words. The method determines the acceptability of the message by matching the message to a plurality of acceptable messages stored in a data structure. Upon determining the message does not match any acceptable messages, the method replaces each word in the message with grammatical metadata. The method may use templates to determine if the message has acceptable word combinations based on the metadata. The method may also compare the metadata to rules wherein the rules determine if the message has unacceptable word combinations based on the metadata. The method may send the message to a user upon determining words in the message do not match any word in a list of unacceptable words.

Real-time search and validation of phrases using linguistic phrase components

Techniques for receiving user feedback for an instance of content. Embodiments provide an interface that includes an interactive element through which users can provide feedback for an instance of content. Responsive to a first user interacting with the interactive element, an indication of user feedback from the first user is registered for the instance of content. Upon determining that the indication of user feedback from the first user has been registered for the instance of content, the interactive element is disabled within the interface for the first user. Embodiments monitor the instance of content to detect changes to the instance of content and, upon detecting a change to the instance of content since the first user provided the user feedback for the content, automatically and without user interaction, re-enable the interactive element for the first user such that the first user can again interact with the interactive element.

Selectively reenabling an interactive element for the collection of user feedback

Described are a system and method for presenting security information about a current site or communications session. Briefly stated, a browsing software is configured to receive a certificate during a negotiation of a secure session between a local device and a remote device. The certificate includes security information about a site maintained at the remote device. The security information is displayed to a user of the browsing software in a meaningful fashion to allow the user to make a trust determination about the site. Displaying the security information may include presenting a certificate summary that includes the most relevant information about the certificate, such as the name of the owner of the site and the name of the certificating authority of the certificate.

Visualization of trust in an address bar

Various embodiments provide an add-on advisor that is designed to assist users in managing add-ons for a browser and/or other application programs. In at least some embodiments, the add-on advisor can be implemented to detect newly installed add-ons and provide notifications to a user of the detected add-ons. The notifications regarding new add-ons can be configured with options to permit the user to enable or disable the add-ons. Add-ons that are not explicitly enabled by a user can be prevented from operating by the add-on advisor. Further, in at least some embodiments, the add-on advisor can be implemented to monitor performance impact of add-ons and provide notifications to a user when add-ons adversely affect performance. The user can then interact with the add-on advisor to improve performance by selectively enabling and disabling add-ons.

Add-on performance advisor

Various embodiments provide compatibility shims that can be utilized by a web browser to dynamically change web browser platform features per domain or website. The compatibility shims can be deployed to the web browser and updated in a manner similar to that of a webpage. In one or more embodiments, the compatibility shims can be utilized to change a browser's behavior and/or the manner in which the browser represents itself per domain or website. Further, the compatibility shims can enable the web browser to dynamically remove or change support for web platform features. In addition, in at least some embodiments, users can apply their own compatibility shims to their own list of websites or webpages.

Website compatibility shims

Various embodiments pertain to ascertaining domain contexts. In one embodiment, an application receives content that may contain a script (i.e. code). In this case, the domain context is ascertained and the script is executed in the context of the domain associated with the received content, rather than requiring the application or some other component to navigate to a location, such as a web location, to attempt to ascertain the domain context of the script. In another embodiment, third party objects or code are required to provide their domain context to an application in order for the application to make a security-based decision.

Ascertaining domain contexts

There is provided a method and system for an approval based economy. The method comprises, receiving input corresponding to media content associated with a user, determining a number of approval units corresponding to the input, retrieving a user account associated with the user, and saving the approval units in the user account. The user account may include past approval units and an approval total. The approval total may account for the approval units and the past approval units, the approval units and the past approval units of active users and available media content only, or a maximum lifetime total of active users and available media content only. The approval based economy may provide new media content to users based on their respective approval total in their user account.

Approval based economy

Techniques are disclosed for supplying users in an online environment with a safe and effective chat facility. The chat facility is 'safe' in the sense that the ability of users to compose inappropriate messages is greatly restricted, while 'effective' in the sense that users are still allowed a broad range of expressivity in composing and exchanging chat messages.

Dynamically generated phrase-based assisted input

Website compatability shims

Techniques for receiving user feedback for an instance of content. Embodiments provide an interface that includes an interactive element through which users can provide feedback for an instance of content. Responsive to a first user interacting with the interactive element, an indication of user feedback from the first user is registered for the instance of content, and the interactive element within the interface is disabled for the first user. Embodiments monitor the instance of content to detect changes to the instance of content. Additionally, upon detecting a change to the instance of content, the interactive element is enabled for the first user, such that the first user can again interact with the interactive element.

Techniques are disclosed for presenting information related to a user's friends within a virtual environment. For example, when a user requests to view a friends list, the virtual environment may respond by identifying interactions between that user and their friends. From this, the virtual environment may determine an order to present the users in the list. For example, individual with whom the user interacts with frequently may be more prominently displayed. However, the user may fix or 'pin' the position of certain users (e.g., a close friend with whom contact is infrequent). Further, in addition to displaying friends' names, the list may display an animation of a user's friend generated based on the then current activity, location, or appearance of that friend within a virtual environment.

Friends lists with dynamic ordering and dynamic avatar appearance

Techniques are disclosed that allow a user to efficiently move their online presence from a current location in a virtual world to a target location near a friend or character. The target location may be in another instance of the virtual world or in another virtual world. Further, the movement of the user&#x2014;referred to as a jump&#x2014;may be in response to a request from the user to jump their online presence to the target location of a friend or character. In the other direction, a user can send a 'jump to me' request to their friends.

Relocating a user's online presence across virtual rooms, servers, and worlds based on locations of friends and characters

Described herein is a technique of protecting users against certain types of Internet attacks. The technique involves obtaining certificates from visited web sites and qualifying communications with those web sites based on the content of the certificates.

Validating the origin of web content

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Marc Adam Silbey