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Microsoft Corporation

Melissa Wood Dunn

Ashvin Mathew

Puhazholi Vetrivel

Vivien Park

Charles W Kaufman

Butler W Lampson

Carl Melvin Ellison

Oliver Griffith Fisher

Ravindra Pandya

Paul J Leach

Kim Cameron

Jonathan David Perlow

Alexander G Gounares

Cornelis K Van Dok

Nir Nice

Sean Olin Blagsvedt

Paul R Erickson

Joel K Grossman

Walter R Smith

Peyman Oreizy

Eric J Horvitz

Jie Jerry Liu

Christopher G Kaler

Brian M Jones

Jason Garms

Mary P Czerwinski

Ying Li

Todd R Manion

Richard L Hasha

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

Boyd Cannon Multerer

Brett David Brewer

Milind V Mahajan

Michael Joseph Toutonghi

Arun K Nanda

Murli D Satagopan

Karim Taji Farouki

Cynthia Dwork

Timothy David Sharpe

Colin Harrison Brace

David Richard Reed

Iulian Doroftei Calinov

Fabio Pettinati

Shankar Vaidyanathan

Fang Wang

Cem Paya

Tomasz Janczuk

Uri Barash

Donald J Hacherl

Joseph N Coco

Nayana Ramdas Mutha

Marcus Harvey

Stephen John Mooney

John-Anthony Owens

Joseph J Brychell

Kevin R Moore

Jon Perlow

J Patrick Thompson

Teresa Mah

Darrell Leroy Blegen

Douglas A Walter

Matthew Jason Pope

Ashwini Kumar Varma

Danpo Zhang

Balbir Singh

Joshua C Zana

Dimitrios Lymperopoulos

Dejan Subotic

Don Hacherl

Jayaram Nm Nanduri

Boaz Feldbaum

Darrell J Cannon

Stuart Kwan

Shyam Sujeewa Habarakada

Arvind Kumar

Sefy Ophir

Vu Anh Ha

Eric Picard

Marcus S H Harvey

Laurel S Abbott

Eric Don Van Valkenburg

Friedman Arie

Xiang Xian

Matt C Jones

Paul J Lach

Jen-Hsien Kenny Chien

Amit Shaked

Matthew J Pope

David R Reed

Shyam S Habarakada

Colin Brace

Walter Smith

Murli Satagopan

Arun Nanda

Consent management between a client and a network server. In response to a request for consent, a central server determines if requested user information is included in a user profile associated with a user and if the user has granted consent to share the requested user information. A user interface is provided to the user via a browser of the client to collect the requested user information that is not included in the user profile and the consent to share the requested user information from the user. After receiving the user information provided by the user via the user interface, the service provided by the network server is allowed access to the received user information, and the central server updates the user profile. Other aspects of the invention are directed to computer-readable media for use with profile and consent accrual.

Profile and consent accrual

Various technologies, methods, systems, processes, and compositions of matter pertaining to advertisements, and advertisement interactions with users and applications may be described. A single advertisement may be selected for a user based on a single lookup of the user profile at an advertisement server. The advertisement server may send a single adget to the user. This single adget is then seamlessly used on multiple devices. Each device may automatically select a different View of the advertisement. Each device may automatically render a different Actions as supported by a device.

Interaction between ads and applications

The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods that facilitate managing access control utilizing certificates. The systems and methods described herein are directed to mapping an access policy as expressed in an access control list to a set of certificates. The set of certificates can be used to grant access to resources in the manner described by the ACL. The certificates can be distributed to entities for use in obtaining access to resources. Entities can present certificates to resources as evidence of their right to access the resources. The access logic of the sequential ACL can be transformed or mapped to a set of order independent certificates. In particular, each entry, position of the entry in the list and any preceding entries can be analyzed. The analysis can be used to generate order independent certificates that provide access in accordance with the access policy communicated in the ACL.

Transformation of sequential access control lists utilizing certificates

A location-related entity ranking technique is described that allows a user see the ranking of location-related entities near a desired location in response to a query. The technique can leverage the searches performed by a community of mobile device users at a given location and at a given time to infer the location-related entities that are popular at this specific location and time window. The technique can also filter out or re-rank these location-related entities based on the personal preferences of the person that submits the query and group preferences of a group to which the user belongs. The personal preferences can also be context specific (i.e. different restaurant preferences for lunch and dinner times).

Real-time personalized recommendation of location-related entities

Upon requesting to share one or more types of identity information, a user is automatically presented with an interface through which the user can interact in selecting an amount of identity items to share. A subset of the total identity items selected may then be shared with specified entities. Interfaces can also be used to assist the user in managing identity information that has been shared with others by providing the user with a visual list of entities for which the user has shared specified identity information and to whom updated information can be sent.

Identity management user experience

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can mitigate privacy concerns in connection with ad targeting or data collection. In particular, architecture can be included in a personal mobile communication device such as a cell phone. During communication transactions between the host device and a peer device, shared information can be extracted either from content included in the communication or from metadata. Based upon the shared information, a social graph maintained on the host device can be updated. In addition, the host device can receive a large set of ads and select or tailor a custom ad from the set based upon the social graph.

Privacy-centric ad models that leverage social graphs

Grouping personal accounts to tailor a web service may be accomplished by grouping information from two or more personal accounts. In some embodiments, a personal account may include a set of persons. By grouping personal accounts, a service provider may tailor a web service to multiple people based on information about those people.

Grouping personal accounts to tailor a web service

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for facilitating personalization of web content is provided, while protecting the privacy of the user data utilized to personalize the user's experience. A privacy vault may collect user data including user activity data, demographic data, and user interests submitted by a user. In one embodiment, the privacy vault operates on a user client device. The privacy vault sends the user data to a community vault that collects user data from multiple users. The community vault generates segment rules that whether a user belongs to a user segment, which expresses a user's interest. The segment rules are then communicated back to the privacy vault, which assigns one or more user segments to the user based on the user data available to the privacy vault and the segment rules. The privacy vault may communicate user segments to one or more content providers that supply personalized content that is selected based on the user segments provided.

Privacy vault for maintaining the privacy of user profiles

A system and method is provided for publication and discovery of the presence of nearby users on a network. When the system is enabled, the presence of the local user is published on the network. Nearby users that also have a similar system enabled can discover the local user's presence on the network. Furthermore, the local user may discovery the presence of the other nearby users that are currently publishing their presence on the network.

System and method for discovering and publishing of presence information on a network

The present invention is directed to utilizing contact data controls to simplify access to schematized contact data. Contact data controls abstract the formatting of schematized contact data from applications. In some embodiments, applications that lack the configuration to natively access schematized contact data (e.g., lack the functionality to convert between schematized and non-schematized data or are not authorized) forward requests to access schematized contact data to an external contact data control. In other embodiments, applications that lack the configuration to natively access schematized contact data forward non-schematized data, which is to be used to update schematized contact data, to an external contact data control. External contact data controls appropriately interact with the schematized data and can provide user-interface such that an application designer need not have extensive knowledge of contact schemas associated with the schematized contact data.

Simplifying application access to schematized contact data

In a network computing environment, a user-centric system and method for controlling access to user-specific information maintained in association with a web-services service. When a web-services client desires access to the user-specific information, the client sends a request. The request identifies the reasons/intentions for accessing the desired information. The request is compared to the user's existing access permissions. If there is no existing access permission, the request is compared to the user's default preferences. If the default preferences permit the requested access, an access rule is created dynamically and the client's request is filled, without interrupting the user. If the default preferences do not permit the request to be filled, a consent user interface may be invoked. The consent user interface presents the user with one or more consent options, thereby permitting the user to control whether the client will be given access to the user-specific information.

System and method for user-centric authorization to access user-specific information

Example embodiment of the present invention provide for assisting a user in managing the user's shared persona on a request-by-request basis. Upon requesting to share one or more types of identity information, the user is automatically presented with an interface through which the user can interact in selecting an amount of identity items to share. A subset of the total identity items selected may then be shared with specified entities. In another embodiment, the present invention assists a user in managing identity information that has been shared with others by providing the user with a visual list of entities for which the user has shared specified identity information. Other embodiments of the present invention use shared information about an entity to automatically provide the user with the ability to update identity information that has subsequently been edited.

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Melissa Wood Dunn