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Ranjib Singh Badh

Jeroen Vanturennout

Asta Jane Roseway

George Joy

Melora Zaner-Godsey

Nicole Danielle Steinbok

Steven Abrahams

Vasudha Chandrasekaran

Geeven Singh

Troy A Schauls

Marcella C S Rader

Aarthi Natarajan

Seshagiri Panchapagesan

Vlad Cretu

Eyal Axelrod

Brian Scott Moudy

Amy Wai-Yee Ip

Richard Michael Eames

Jeroen Van Turennout

Yuanquan Zhang

Jason Randall Wadsworth

Hari R Pulapaka

Sashi Raghupathy

Cesare John Saretto

Manoj Kumar Biswas

Alain Franck Gefflaut

Christopher Scott Dickens

Sarjana Sheth

Sermet Iskin

Christian Fortini

Alexandra K Heron

Adam Christopher Czeisler

Harris Syed

Jayaraman Kalyana Sundaram

Eyal Schwartz

Jacob Andrew Sabulsky

Axel Andrejs

Ryan M Hurst

Zainab Hakim

John Saxon Morrow

Alexander K Heron

Rui Chen

Trevin M Chow

Kim Pascal Pimmel

Jeffrey Earl Steinbok

Walter V Von Koch

Naizhi Li

Alton Kwok

Jason C Fluegel

Erren Dusan Lester

Yosef Firstenberg

Matthew A Goldberg

Satvir Randhawa

Walter Von Koch

Katrina M Blanch

Jiashi Zhang

Ritu Varma

Mark Wong

Vipul Bansal

Taylor Lehman

Maimoon Nasim

Arimand Samuel

Alex Odle

Xerxes Beharry

Marcella CS Rader

In one embodiment, an application modulemay adjust a synchronization schemebased on the operational state of a computing deviceAn operating systemmay determine an operational state for a computing deviceThe operating systemmay assign a synchronization allotmentto the application modulebased on the operational state. A synchronization engineof the application modulemay implement a synchronization schemebased on the synchronization allotment

Adaptive data synchronization

A gaze target is recognized via an eye tracking camera. An application launcher is displayed, via a display, at the gaze target based on a user trigger. The application launcher presents a plurality of applications selectable for launching. A user selection of one of the plurality of applications is recognized. The application launcher is replaced with the selected one of the plurality of applications at the gaze target via the display.

Gaze target application launcher

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing awareness of user availability. A user may activate a device, and a request to manage an availability status can be sent from the device to a communication service. The communication service may resultantly set up monitoring of the user status, and the availability status of the user can be set to available. If an active status update is not received from the user device, the availability status of the user can be changed from available to away. If an active status update for the user continues not to be received (e.g., for a few hours) and/or device connectivity seems lost, the availability status of the user can be changed from away to offline. This can be done in a resource/power efficient manner by not requiring continual execution of an associated application and/or continual network connectivity of the device.

User availability awareness

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for dynamically maintaining user centric data. For example, a data provider app may have knowledge about user centric data associated with a user (e.g., a social network app may have contact information for a social network friend of the user). A user centric profile may be defined for the user centric data based upon information provided by the data provider app (e.g., a contact card may be generated for the social network friend). Responsive to receiving a request for the user centric profile from a requestor app (e.g., an event planning app), the user centric profile may be exposed to the user but not to the requestor app for security and/or privacy purposes. For example, an operating system may present at least some of the user centric profile within an operating system user interface.

User centric data maintenance

In one embodiment, a synchronization engineof an application modulemay adjust a synchronization schemebased on the implicit data classification of a data item. A synchronization enginemay detect a user actionexecuted by a user on a data item. The synchronization enginemay determine an action typefor the user action. The synchronization enginemay assign an item synchronization priority to the data itembased on the action type

Data classification for adaptive synchronization

In one embodiment, an application modulemay adjust a synchronization schemebased on the operational state of a computing device. An operating systemmay determine an operational state for a computing device. The operating systemmay assign a synchronization allotmentto the application modulebased on the operational state. A synchronization engineof the application modulemay implement a synchronization schemebased on the synchronization allotment

Various technologies pertaining to instant messaging are described herein. A persistent instant messaging group is created, wherein the persistent instant messaging group comprises a plurality of members and persists over a plurality of instant messaging sessions. Instances of an instant messaging application are installed on mobile telephones, and the instant messaging application is used to transmit instant messages between members of the persistent instant messaging group. Messages directed towards offline members of the persistent instant messaging group are transmitted to such members when they come online.

Persisting a group in an instant messaging application

Techniques to share binary content are described. An apparatus may comprise a first related client having a message platform with a file share feature and an object store, the file share feature operative to retrieve a data object for a publishing client having a defined relationship with the first related client and a second related client, the first related client to send the data object to the second related client on behalf of the publishing client, and the object store operative to store and manage the data object using a unique name identifier received with the data object. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to share binary content

Strategies are described for validating content transferred over a communication channel using a more effective approach than heretofore provided in the art. A content registration authority is provided which registers the content disseminated by one or more content providers to one or more client devices. A client device which receives content that has been registered can securely consume the content, based on an assumption that a content provider which furnishes the content is entrusted by the content registration authority to provide the content, and without prompting a user of the client device to expressly approve the content provider. In a first solution, the content registration authority registers the content by issuing a certification stamp; in a second solution, the content registration authority registers the content by storing registration information in a central repository. The content may contain instructions which perform operations in the context of an instant messenger application.

Provisions for validating content using a content registration authority

A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a request to create a persistent messaging group for an instant messaging application, wherein the request includes an indication of one or more entities that are desired to be members of the persistent messaging group. The system further includes a group creator component that creates the persistent messaging group based at least in part upon the received group creation request, wherein the persistent messaging group is persisted over multiple instant messaging sessions.

Techniques are described which may be employed to provide a login screen with identifying data. In an implementation, a login screen is displayed having an image that identifies a user. Credentials are received via the login screen to log the user onto a service provider over a network.

Login screen with identifying data

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Ranjib Singh Badh