Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Martin D Hall

Michael A LaJoie

Zhangwei Xu

Raymond Alexander Malkiewicz

Andrew M Pickard

Sergey Kisselev

Conroy Williamson

Alexander Frank

Thomas G Phillips

Kristie E Smith

Kelly Rose McArthur

Evan Amarante Soares

Jeremy Lee Dewey

Mark James McNulty

David Ruzyski

James Duffus

Isaac P Ahdout

Jason Kepner

Evelyn R Thomas

Ali Khan

Joshua R McCammon

Stephen E Giscombe

Jeffrey Alan Herold

Curt Andrew Steeb

Dana Ludwig

Thomas Cooper

William Jefferson Westerinen

David Andrew Howell

Bohdan W Raciborski

Martin Holladay

Paul C Sutton

Rajagopal Venkatachalam

Fei Chen

Ricardo Lopez-Barquilla

David C Tse

Kedar Hirve

William L Poole

Sameer Dilip Bedekar

Guruprakash Rao

Siddhartha Roy

Mark Curtis Light

Xiaofeng Gao

Nicholas Temple

Alexander Bussmann

Luca Beltrami

Heather Grantham Brodie

Jaya B Rayasam

Dhiresh Kumar

Gaurav Singhal

Jennifer Hilary Kays

Irena K Andonova

Travis St Onge

Aaron Cardwell

Matthew Labunka

Danilo Pérez Solano

Andrew A George

Danilo PÉREZ Solano

A system is described herein. The system includes an agent and a transmitter. The agent is to a capture room specific data signals from peripheral devices within a conference room, operating system data signals, and application data signals, wherein the application data signals are obtained from a conferencing service application and wherein the agent is to package the room specific data signals, the operating system data signals, and the application data signals with system metadata into room health data. The transmitter is to transmit the room health data to a management cloud via a communications broker.

Managed rooms backbone

Examples described herein provide various devices that enable users to participate in a multiplayer session. The examples allow a user that is unable to speak, or that is incapable of speaking, to participate in an in-session voice chat by inputting text and having the text converted to speech (e.g., synthesized voice data) that can then be sent to other devices participating in the session. The user enables a text-to-speech conversion feature on his or her own device. Based on the enabled feature, functionality enabling text to be entered is activated and the entered text is converted into speech data.

Session text-to-speech conversion

Examples described herein provide various devices that enable users to participate in a session. The examples allow a user that is unable to hear, or that is incapable of hearing, to participate in an in-session voice chat by receiving text messages that have been converted from speech to text (e.g., transcribed messages). The user enables a speech-to-text conversion feature on his or her own device. Based on the enabled feature, a notification can be sent to other devices participating in the session. Based on the notification, the other devices are tasked with capturing utterances and sending corresponding speech data to a speech-to-text conversion device so that voice communications can be converted to text messages. Subsequent to conversion, the text messages can be displayed in a chat interface presented as part of the displayed content for the session.

Session speech-to-text conversion

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

Display screen with icon group and display screen with icon set

Embodiments related to network video messaging are disclosed. One disclosed embodiment provides a method that comprises receiving a video message from a client application of a source client; associating a navigation link with the video message; transmitting a notification message to the recipient client including the navigation link; receiving a retrieval request from the recipient client to access the video content via the navigation link; and transmitting the video content to the recipient client responsive to receiving the retrieval request by providing a persistent download of the video content from the storage server if the download condition indicates that a persistent download of the video content is permissible; and providing a transient download of the video content to the recipient client while prohibiting a persistent download of the video content if the download condition indicates that a persistent download of the video content is not permissible.

Network video messaging

Systems and methods are provided for delivering contextual advertising to a vehicle. An example system may include a profiler module executed by an onboard computing device of the vehicle, and configured to aggregate vehicle event data from a plurality of vehicle-based event sources, and to develop user profile data based on the vehicle event data. A communication agent may also be executed by the onboard computing device, and configured to transmit the user profile data to an advertising service executed on an advertising server via a communication network. The communication agent may also be configured to retrieve an advertisement from the advertising service. The advertisement may be selected based on content of the user profile data. The system may also include an interface module executed by the onboard computing device, and configured to present the advertisement via a display, and/or speaker associated with the onboard computing device.

Delivering contextual advertising to a vehicle

Systems and methods are provided for linking a web identity and a portable device to provide web access to a user from a vehicle. An example system includes a presence agent that may be configured to validate the presence of the portable device in the vehicle by recognizing a device identifier saved on the portable device. After the presence of the portable device is validated, a security manager may receive a user identifier, and verify if the user identifier corresponds with a known user value. Then, the security manager may send a user identity secure proxy to a credential manager. The credential manager may be configured to receive the user identity secure proxy, and in response, pass one or more credentials to a computing device onboard the vehicle. The credentials may indicate that the user is authorized to access one or more web services from the computing device.

Linking web identity and access to devices

A hardware-based security module is used to protect an electronic device, especially a portable electronic device. The security module may determine either via timeout of a watchdog timer or via an explicit message to encrypt selected data on the electronic device. In addition, the electronic device may enter a limited function mode that only allows display of simplistic messages and supports network traffic with a recovery service. The recovery service may be able to use the network traffic to locate the electronic device. The security module may include a secure memory, a cryptographic function, a timer, and support for direct display of data on a monitor.

Hardware-based computer theft deterrence

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Martin D Hall