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Matthew Graham Dyor

Roderick A Hyde

Nathan P Myhrvold

Robert W Lord

Richard T Lord

Clarence T Tegreene

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Mark A Malamud

Royce A Levien

Jordin T Kare

William Henry Gates, Iii

Marc Eliot Davis

Muriel Y Ishikawa

Craig J Mundie

Edward K Y Jung

Xuedong D Huang

Desney S Tan

Victoria Y H Wood

Charles Whitmer

Qi Lu

Satya Nadella

Harry Shum

Paramvir Bahl

Ranveer Chandra

Douglas Christopher Burger

Lin Zhong

Tim Paek

Daniel Reed

Robert C Petroski

Jesse R Cheatham, Iii

Daniel A Gerrity

Pablos Holman

Michael Koenig

Peter N Glaskowsky

John D Rinaldo, Jr

Paul D Holman

Kimberly D A Hallman

Danny Allen Reed

Steven Nabil Bathiche

Kenneth Paul Hinckley

Anoop Gupta

Philip Andrew Eckhoff

Paul Henry Dietz

Andreas Georg Nowatzyk

Xeudong Huang

Gur Kimchi

Lili Cheng

Joseph Futty

Eric J Horvitz

Andrew David Wilson

Michael Anthony Hall

Steven Wayne Ickman

Miller Thomas Abel

Steven William Macbeth

Danny B Lange

David Raskino

Paul Andrew Steckler

Richard Junqiang Qian

Ira Snyder

Mats Eric Myrberg

Patrick Kinsel

Stefan David Weitz

Kimberly Denise Auyang Hallman

John Charles Krumm

Paul A Viola

Sreenivas Gollapudi

Zhaowei Charlie Jiang

Christopher Clayton McConnell

Stelios Paparizos

John Christopher Shafer

Dan E Walther

Mohammed Moinuddin

Greg Shirakyan

Oliver Taggart Graham

Christopher C Mcconnell

Dave Rohn

Pablo Tapia

Andrew Wilson

Michael Hall

Peter Glaskowsky

Making an information retrieval process public, so that it can be followed by others, allows capturing of an interest graph that allows people to learn more about shared interests with other people. This also allows items of interest to a trusted resource (such as an expert) to be identified. These items can then be brought to the attention of other users that share the same interest as the expert. In addition, by keeping track of what particular content a user has already seen, the system can bring items of interest to the user's attention, where the user has not yet seen those items.

Identifying unseen content of interest

Location-based notification includes establishment of a rally point and subsequent notification of a user when another user enters the rally point. Senders may set up rally points at various physical locations and specify one or more target recipients that are to be notified when the sender enters the rally point. Target recipients may specify communication settings that dictate whether and/or how they wish to receive notifications under a variety of circumstances. When a sender having a computing device enters a rally point location, a notification is sent from the computing device to a location-based notification service, which notifies each of the target recipients in a manner that complies with the target recipient's individual communication settings.

Location-based notification

Techniques for content customization with security for client preferences are described herein. The techniques describe the customization of content provided by websites according to preferences, such as the interests, 'likes' and demographic and/or geographic information of users. Additional techniques describe aspects of keeping the users' preferences secure from the website, so that the users' privacy and anonymity are protected. In one implementation, a 'trusted entity' is trusted by users to obtain and store the preferences. Content may be obtained by the trusted entity from a content provider, such as a website. The content may be changed according to the preferences. The content is then provided to the users. In view of the changes made by the trusted entity, the user enjoys a customized version of the content. Additional techniques describe limits to customization, based on permissible customizations and frameworks generated by the content providers.

Content customization with security for client preferences

Techniques for ability enhancement are described. In some embodiments, devices and systems located in a transportation network share threat information with one another, in order to enhance a user's ability to operate or function in a transportation-related context. In one embodiment, a process in a vehicle receives threat information from a remote device, the threat information based on information about objects or conditions proximate to the remote device. The process then determines that the threat information is relevant to the safe operation of the vehicle. Then, the process modifies operation of the vehicle based on the threat information, such as by presenting a message to the operator of the vehicle and/or controlling the vehicle itself.

Ability enhancement

Systems, methods, computer-readable storage mediums including computer-readable instructions and/or circuitry for control of transmission to a target device with communicating with one or more sensors in an ad-hoc sensor network may implement operations including, but not limited to: receiving electrical power via at least one structurally integrated electrically conductive element; and powering one or more sensing operations of one or more sensors via the electrical power.

Ad-hoc wireless sensor package

Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accessing at least one persona that includes a unique identifier that is at least partly based on a first user's device-identifier data and the first user's network-participation data; verifying the persona by comparing the first user's device-identifier data and the first user's network-participation data of the unique identifier to a second user's device-identifier data and the second user's network-participation data; and presenting the persona in response to a request for personal information.

Computational systems and methods for verifying personal information during transactions

A gravity-powered golf putting ramp configured to receive a golf ball in motion in a first direction, guide the golf ball using an arced ramp in a second direction that increases gravitational potential energy, and guides the golf ball in a third direction that is substantially the opposite the first direction. The gravity-powered golf putting ramp includes: a planar base that supports the gravity-powered golf putting ramp when it is placed on a planar surface; a leading edge connected to the planar base, the leading edge having a small height relative to a width of the leading edge; a putting arc configured to receive a golf ball in motion, the putting arc connected to the leading edge and oriented in a direction substantially similar to the planar base. The putting arc is configured to: guide the golf ball having a first amount of kinetic energy and having a first path that is at least partially in an upward direction from the planar base until the golf ball reaches an apex, at which point it has substantially no kinetic energy and does have an amount of potential energy relative to the planar base; and guide the golf ball in a return path that is substantially directionally different than the first path and that is downward from the apex.

Gravity-powered golf putting ramp

Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting at least one request for personal information from a party to a transaction; evaluating the transaction; and negotiating presentation of at least one persona to the party to the transaction at least partly based on an evaluation of the transaction.

Computational systems and methods for regulating information flow during interactions

Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting at least one persona from a party to a transaction; evaluating the transaction; and negotiating receipt of at least one different persona from the party to the transaction at least partly based on an evaluation of the transaction.

A system for detecting a type of stroke includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive heart data regarding a heart rhythm of a patient and physiological data regarding a physiological characteristic of the patient. The heart data is indicative of an occurrence of atrial fibrillation and the physiological data is indicative of an occurrence of a stroke. The processing circuit is further configured to determine a likelihood that the stroke was an embolic stroke based on the heart data and to provide an output including an indication of the likelihood that the stroke was an embolic stroke.

Systems and methods for detecting strokes

Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting at least one email communication from at least one member of a network; disambiguating the at least one search term including associating the at least one search term with at least one of network-participation identifier data or device-identifier data; and presenting the sender profile in association with the at least one email communication.

Computational systems and methods for identifying a communications partner

Systems, methods, computer-readable storage mediums including computer-readable instructions and/or circuitry for control of transmission to a target device with communicating with one or more sensors in an ad-hoc sensor network may implement operations including, but not limited to: generating electrical power from at least one ambient source via at least one structurally integrated electromagnetic transducer; powering at least one transmitter via the electrical power to wirelessly transmit one or more sensor operation activation signals to one or more sensors; and at least one of powering one or more sensing operations of one or more sensors via the electrical power or charging one or more power storage devices electrically coupled to the one or more sensors via the electrical power.

Ad hoc wireless sensor package

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