Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

Robert McKee Howard

Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton

Robert Lee Pipkin

Lee Dicks Clark

Titus Constantin Miron

Shawn Michael Brown

Paul Robert Nash

John Yovin

Sogol Malekzadeh

Jared Adam Brown

Iosif Joseph Hriscu

Shaofeng Zhu

Eray Aydin

Sandeep Paruchuri

Yordan Ivanov Rouskov

Murli D Satagopan

Anthony Christopher Bloesch

James Charles Kleewein

William R Taylor

Venkatesh Veeraraghavan

Vikrant Arora

Michael Brent Bailey

Daniel Kershaw

Muhammad Asif Ehtesham

Sriram Dhanasekaran

Andrei Chtcherbatchenko

Dmitry Pugachev

Jon Rosenberg

Naganandhini Kohareswaran

Yina Arenas

Marek Rycharski

Vijaya Manohararaj

Joseph C Chang

Colleen Hamilton

Shawn Brown

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that enable users to provide explicit declarations that are used to generate recommendations for the users. An explicit declaration is received from a user of a user device. The explicit declaration is configured to influence a subsequent recommendation. The words of the explicit declaration are processed to generate a record. A recommendation rule is generated based on the generated record. The recommendation rule is executed to generate a recommendation for the user. The generated recommendation is provided to the user.

Explicit signals personalized search

Network services may include data associated with one or more entities. An aggregator service may host respective application programming interfaces (APIs) of the services at a single endpoint of the network such that the entities, including associations and relationships between entities, may be federated. For example, the services may register the entities of which the data of each of the services is associated with through a declarative entity model to establish an API schema for each of the services, which may be published at the aggregator service. In response to receipt of a request for entity related data from a client, the aggregator service may employ the declarative entity model to determine which of the services are associated with the entity related data such that a query may be submitted to the services, and how to aggregate responses to the query received from the services for transmission to the client.

Aggregation and federation of distributed service entities and associations

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that address issues related to data privacy by enabling users to elect various levels of data sharing. A user of a user device is enabled to indicate their comfort level with sharing, transmitting, or otherwise exposing individual activity records (data entities) with respect to various activity categories. The exposure of activity records may be controlled with respect to on-device and off-device components. Furthermore, privacy profiles may be automatically generated for the user, and the privacy profiles may be automatically activated in corresponding situations.

Privacy-based degradation of activity signals and automatic activation of privacy modes

An application submits a permission request to a resource server. In response to receiving the request, the resource server generates a user interface that asks the user to grant or deny the requested permissions. If the permissions are granted, data is stored indicating that the application has the requested permissions. When a runtime request for a resource is received, the resource server determines whether the request has been made by a user, by an application, or by an application on behalf of a user. If the request is made by an application only, the request is granted only if the application has permission to access the resource by way of a direct call not on behalf of a user. If the request is made by an application on behalf of a user, the request is granted only if both the user and the application have sufficient permission.

Authorizing application access to secure resources

Remote event receivers can register with a document repository computing system to receive notifications of events occurring at a document repository. The remote event receivers may register to receive notifications synchronously, whereby the remote event receivers can provide a response to the notification prior to the occurrence of the event, or asynchronously, whereby the remote event receivers provide no response. Synchronous remote event receivers can also specify in a response to the notification that the event should be canceled or may specify properties that should be changed. Remote event receivers can be pre-event receivers that receive notifications prior to the occurrence of an event, or post-event receivers that receive notifications following the event. When an event is to occur at the document repository, notifications are provided to the pre-event remote event receivers. Once the event has occurred, notifications are provided to the post-event remote event receivers.

Providing notification of document repository events to external systems

A web page editor displays a web page including at least two elements that are at least partially overlapping. The web page editor includes an element selection mechanism displaying a list of overlapping elements of the web page at a selected point on the web page. The element selection mechanism allows a user to unambiguously select between the elements of the web page at the selected location from the displayed list.

Web page editor with element selection mechanism

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