Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Parinkumar D Shah

Shubham Gupta

Ankit Gupta

Swapnil Ghike

Vivek Nelamangala

Shaunak Chatterjee

Zheng Li

Tomer Cohen

Shipeng Yu

Chao Zhang

Curtis Wang

Roshan Rajesh Sumbaly

Ying Xuan

Erran Berger

Raghu Ram Hiremagalur Venkatesh

Ali Sadiq Mohamed

Rushi P Bhatt

Changji Shi

Pujita Mathur

Suruchi H Shah

Divye Kapoor

Strahinja Markovic

Sara F Todd

Pingjie Xiao

Banu Muthukumar

Heidi Jaywing Wang

Eric Brownrout

Brett Konold

Hari Shankar Sreekumar Menon

Marco Varela Alvarado

The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system stores a conversation containing a series of messages exchanged among a number of participants in a first document containing metadata for the conversation; a second document containing message content for the series of messages, wherein the message content includes a fixed position gap between starting or ending positions in consecutive messages in the series of messages; and one or more additional documents storing message metadata for individual messages in the conversation. Next, the system processes a first search across the series of messages in the conversation using an index of the set of documents. The system also processes, using the index, a second search within individual messages in the series of messages as a span query with a distance that is shorter than the fixed position gap.

Document structures for searching within and across messages

Techniques for enhancing usability and electronic resource efficiency using comment relevance are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a comment relevance system receives member feature data, including professional identity data such as professional experience or professional skill, and at least one of comment feature data and commenter feature data for comments for post on a social networking service, generates a score for each comment based on the member feature data and the comment or commenter feature data, ranks the comments based on the scores, and causes one or more of the comments to be displayed in a particular position based on the ranking. In some embodiments, the member feature data comprises professional identity data of a member of the social networking service, the comment feature data indicates at least one attribute of the comment, and the commenter feature data indicates at least one attribute of the commenter of the comment.

Usability and resource efficiency using comment relevance

A system, method, and apparatus are provided for propagating a status among related events. A relationship component of the system maintains a graph of the related events and, upon assignment of a status to an event identifies one or more related events (e.g., the root event, other ancestor events, descendant events). A retention component of the system includes multiple nodes that maintain user records (e.g., sharded by user identifier) storing events associated with the members and that also maintain separate event status tables to identify statuses of selected events. For example, an event status table may store statuses of root events and/or other ancestor events from which a given subsequent event may inherit or derive a status. An event status may reflect a quality or characteristic of the event (e.g., spam, low quality, language of the event), a status of the associated user (e.g., fame, level of influence), etc.

Propagating a status among related events

A notification platform for distribution of notification content in an on-line social network system, on-line and in near real time, is described. As a new notification is detected in the continuous stream of notifications triggered by time-sensitive events, the near real time notifications distribution system determines member profiles representing potential recipients of the notification by traversing a relationship graph. The relationship graph has nodes representing member profiles, as well as other entities maintained in the on-line social network system. The edges of the relationship graph represent relationships between entities represented by the associated nodes. For each member profile representing a potential recipient of the notification, the near real time notifications distribution system generates a relevance score, which is used to determine whether the notification is to be delivered to the potential recipient.

Near real time notifications distribution platform

The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system stores a set of feed updates associated with a set of entities in descending chronological order within a set of resizable blocks. For each entity in the set of entities, the system generates an index containing one or more lists of resizable blocks storing a subset of the feed updates associated with the entity, wherein the one or more lists are sorted in descending chronological order. The system then uses the index to generate a content feed containing a selection of the feed updates for outputting to a viewer.

Efficient indexing of feed updates for content feeds

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Milpitas, CA, United States of America

Parinkumar D Shah