Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Oludare Victor Obasanjo

Robert Michael Dolin

Seung-Hae Park

Bhupinder Singh Sethi

Michael I Torres

Douglas Ray Pearce

David A Nichols

Stephen R Gordon

Jason C Fluegel

Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer

David J Cheng

Jithendra K Veeramachaneni

Kerstin Weinberg

Ken H Chin

Jennie Park Telehowski

Benjamin C Walters

Wolfram Schulte

Eric Fleischman

Matthew S Augustine

Rob Dolin

Austin Longino

Paul Richard Chen Ming

John R Kountz

Deepa Chandramouli

Jiahe Liu

Omar H Shahine

Philip Joseph Hallin

Jeffrey Craig Kunins

Sarah Faulkner

Michael J McCann

Christopher Geiger Parker

Keiji Kanazawa

Robert Warren Piper

Mohammed Arshad Hussain

Vikas Rajvanshy

Paul A Elliott

Jacob D Kim

Charles D Bassett

Gyorgy K Schadt

Bhuvan Middha

Bradley J Barrows

DeEtte M Day

Weiqing Tu

Xinguang Albert Chen

Jeremy Dominic Viegas

Aleksandr Radutskiy

Michelle M Aleong

György K Schadt

Hasrat Godil

Rui Zhou

Jared A Russell

Atanas D Oskov

Daniel C Kitchener

Pankesh Jhaveri

Paul R C Ming

Paul Ming

John P Bruno

Jeremy D Viegas

Michael J Mccann

Xinguang Chen

A computer-implemented technique is described herein for assisting an administrative user in generating negative feature information. The negative feature information, which includes a list of negative features (e.g., negative keywords), defines when queries submitted by end users are expressly disqualified as matching one or more parts of an identified web resource. The technique then automatically assesses the manner in which the negative feature information conflicts with matching between the queries submitted by end users and positive trigger information associated with the web resource, to provide conflict output information. The technique then modifies the negative feature information based on the conflict output information, e.g., by eliminating one or more negative keywords that contribute to conflicts.

Controlling use of negative features in a matching operation

A method of providing updates from a social network to a desktop application is provided. An update is created in an application and if the application has permission, it creates an entry in a recent activity queue. The queue is then subject to analysis to reduce the number of entries in the queue. Subscribers that have permission to receive updates from the publisher and the publishing application then receive updates from the publisher.

Providing localized individually customized updates from a social network site to a desktop application

The claimed subject matter decreases duplicate entries and loops in an activity record. An exemplary method comprises analyzing a new entry from a user to determine an originating service and a type of activity and extracting an identifying portion of the new entry. The identifying portion includes a predetermined number of characters at a beginning of the entry. Additionally, the predetermined number of characters is based on a likelihood of duplicates in the activity record. The identifying portion is compared to a list of prior entries from the user, and an exclusion action is performed, if the new entry matches one in the list of prior entries. The exclusion action may be to hide the new entry, to delete the new entry, or to collapse the new entry into a matching prior entry.

Decreasing duplicates and loops in an activity record

News feed techniques are described. In implementations, content is parsed from one or more emails that are addressed to a user. The parsed content from the email is exposed, automatically and without user intervention, for output in a news feed of the user.

News feed techniques

People often trust ratings provided by those with whom they have an existing relationship more than they would trust ratings provided by strangers. A system that provides ratings can combine the ratings with information about a person's social network, in order to provide information that a person seeking the rating may find more reliable. The information provided to a person may, in some manner, differentiate between ratings that were provided by members of the person's social network and ratings that were provided by those outside of the persons' social network.

Rating based on relationship

Adaptable layouts for social feeds are described. In embodiments, shared content is received as a social network action initiated at a user device by a social network user. An activity is generated based on the social network action to collect metadata associated with the shared content. The shared content and the metadata is then mapped to layout templates that are each generated for different display layout formats associated with different types of client devices. Additionally, the shared content and the metadata is mapped to additional layout templates that are each generated for different social network form factors.

Adaptable layouts for social feeds

Localization techniques are described. In an implementation, data is parsed from a feed of data that is public and not localized. A template is formed from the data for each locale that is to be supported. The data that is localized for a particular locale is presented is based on a particular template for the particular locale.

Data localization templates and parsing

Techniques for resource access authorization are described. In one or more implementations, an application identifier is used to control access to user resources by an application. A determination is made whether to allow the application to access the user resources by comparing an application identifier received from an authorization service with a system application identifier for the application obtained from a computing device on which the application is executing.

Resource access authorization

Web feed presence techniques are described herein. In an implementation, a method includes obtaining a web feed describing content of the user and presence data of the user. The web feed is output with the presence data concurrently.

Web feed presence

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method for decreasing duplicate entries and loops in an activity record such as on a user's page on a social networking site. An exemplary method comprises analyzing a new entry from a user to determine an originating service and a type of activity and extracting an identifying portion of the new entry. The identifying portion is compared to a list of prior entries from the user, and an exclusion action is performed, if the new entry matches one in the list of prior entries. The exclusion action may be to hide the new entry, to delete the new entry, or to collapse the new entry into a matching prior entry.

Information aggregation techniques are described. In an implementation, a communication is received that includes an indication of a source of information associated with a non-member of the social network. Information associated with the non-member is aggregated from the source. The aggregation may be performed in response to receipt of a selection by a member of the social network service to interact with the information from the source. The aggregated information may then be presented to a member in conjunction with webpages output for interaction with the social network.

Information aggregation service

A data center system includes a memory cache coupled to a data center controller. The memory cache includes volatile memory and stores data that is persisted in a database in a different data center system that is located remotely from the data center system rather than in the first data center system. The data center controller reads data from the memory cache and writes data to the memory cache.

Memory cache data center

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Oludare Victor Obasanjo