Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ebay, Incorporated

Rachel Kumar

Mark Hull

Sammy Shreibati

Jesse Jyh-Cherng Hsia

Gaganpreet Singh Shah

Vivian Mak Urata

Steven Brooks

Chamila Amithrigala

Chong Ho Lee

Jacek Suliga

Xin Sun

Christopher Randall Arrowood

Hariharan Gopalakrishnan

Haider Sabri

Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure discussed herein may be used to receive, analyze, and distribute queries about various topics from a member of an online social network to other members of the social network. The embodiments of the present disclosure may additionally assess the quality of responses to queries by members, as well as expand or narrow the distribution of the query among the social network based on various events and criteria.

Query processing for online social networks

Techniques are provided for sharing data among computing devices. In one technique, a first device broadcasts wireless data and establishes a wireless connection with a second device. The first device receives authorization data and first entity data from the second device. The first device authorizes the second device based on the authorization data. The first device then sends second entity data through the wireless connection to the second computing device. The first device sends the first entity data over a network to a remote server system. The first device receives, from the remote server system, entity data that pertains to an entity that is identified by the first entity data. The first device may then display at least a portion of the entity data on a screen of the first device.

Transmitting data among mobile devices

A system generates an encoded identifier representing shipping data associated with the first party, wherein the shipping data is associated with a transaction between the first party and a second party. The system then communicates the encoded identifier to the second party and the second party creates a shipping label including the encoded identifier. The encoded identifier is decoded by a shipping service provider thus providing the shipping data of the first party.

Method and system for generating shipping labels

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Rachel Kumar