Google Inc.

Bea Systems, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Oracle International Corporation

Roderick Adonis Chavez

David Bau

Gary Steven Burd

Kyle W Marvin

Alexander J Zotov

Adam Bosworth

Anand Ramakrishna

Christian Fortini

Reza Behforooz

David H Massy

Richard John Gardner

Jonas Lindberg

Loren Kohnfelder

David Lawrence Remy

Kenneth Eric Vasilik

David Read

Neilfred Picciotto

Sean Edward Purcell

Phillip R Cooper

A system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to create a first identifier associated with a first user and including profile information of the first user; determine a second identifier associated with the first user and with an application, the second identifier including a subset of the profile information of the first user; receive an interaction request from a second user, the interaction request including a third identifier associated with the first user; associate the third identifier with the first identifier associated with the first user and the application; enable the interaction between the first user and the second user on the application; and provide for display to the second user information associated with the first user based on the second identifier.

Enabling communication while limiting access to user information

In one embodiment, a method for maintaining real-time communications of a user includes receiving a user's real-time communications of different types over a network, presenting the real-time communications in an email inbox of the user in a uniform manner, and allowing the user to search contents of the real-time communications presented in the email inbox.

Method and system for storing real-time communications in an email inbox

A computer-implemented method of introducing users of a service includes sending a suggestion to a first user of a service and suggesting an introduction of a second user to a third user of the service. The second and third users are both identified as contacts of the first user in a contact list of the first user and the second and third users satisfy predefined selection criteria with respect to shared contacts, comprising users identified in contact lists of both the second and third users. The method also includes receiving, from the first user, a response to the suggestion; and upon receiving a positive response to the suggestion from the first user, sending the introduction to at least one of the second and third users.

System and method for creating relationships among users of an instant messaging service

Method and system for managing real-time communications in an email inbox

A system and method for creating a proxy object capable of communication with an external entity, comprising specifying a proxy object definition for the proxy object wherein the proxy object definition defines a first function for communicating with the external entity, specifying at least one implementation class for the proxy object definition, wherein the at least one implementation class does not implement the first function, and wherein the at least one implementation class includes functionality to support one of: proxy object design, software compilation and software execution.

Systems and methods for an extensible software proxy

In some embodiments, code can be encapsulated in an external behavior component for affecting the behavior of an element inserted into an HTML document. A reference can be attached to the element in the document to associate the element with the external behavior component. A renderer can parse the element in the HTML document and access the external component to modify a behavior of a page image. For example, the properties or location of a displayed element associated with the external behavior component may be changed on an event, the external behavior component can control user data input, or the external behavior component can draw on the page image. Multiple documents can reuse external behavior components, and an element can be associated with multiple external behavior components. The associations between elements and external behavior components may be maintained in cascading style sheets, inline with the elements, and in various formats.

Dynamic web page behavior

A developer can express the logic offered by a Web service, or other network accessible service, using a standard programming language augmented with declarative annotations specifying preferences for exposing that logic as a Web service. At compile time, an enhanced compiler can analyze the annotated source file and automatically generate the mechanisms required to expose its functionality as a Web service or network accessible service.

Systems and methods for creating network-based software services using source code annotations

A method and system for rendering dynamic web page images on a display is disclosed. Code is encapsulated in an external behavior component for affecting the behavior of elements inserted into an HTML document. A simple reference is attached to the element in the document to associate the element with the external behavior component. When the document is provided to a renderer and the renderer parses the element in the document, the renderer accesses the external component to modify a behavior of the page image. Multiple documents can reuse external behavior components, and an element can be associated with multiple external behavior components. The associations between elements and external behavior components may be maintained in cascading style sheets, inline with the elements, and in various formats.

Dynamic web page behaviors

An entity is abstracted through implementation of a proxy object of the present invention, including functions for a software application to programmatically interact with the entity at runtime, as well as optional compile and design time implementation classes to support the development and customization of declarative proxy object definitions. In one embodiment, builder and resource interfaces are provided to assist in the creation of the implementation classes. In one embodiment, an extension interface is also provided to facilitate extension of an implementation of the proxy object. Software applications including programmatic usage of proxy object functions are compiled into object codes with proxy objects and meta data files. The compiled object codes are executed using a runtime engine, which includes proxy context objects to facilitate interaction on an instance basis, and an asynchronous event router to route asynchronous events for the entity.

Methods and apparatus for building, customizing and using software abstractions of external entities

An annotation based development platform for stateful web services is described. In one embodiment, the developer expresses logic offered by the web service using a standard programming language augmented with declarative annotations specifying preferences for exposing that logic as a stateful web service. At compile time, an enhanced compiler analyzes the annotated source file and automatically generates the mechanisms required to expose its functionality as a stateful web service.

Annotation based development platform for stateful web services

An annotation based development platform for asynchronous web services is described. In one embodiment, the developer expresses logic offered by the web service using a standard programming language augmented with declarative annotations specifying preferences for exposing that logic as an asynchronous web service. At compile time, an enhanced compiler analyzes the annotated source file and automatically generates the mechanisms required to expose its functionality as an asynchronous web service.

Annotation based development platform for asynchronous web services

An iterative software development environment is provided to perform modified dependency analyses for use in building a target file and all the files on which it depends from one or more source files using a set of prioritized build rules. In one embodiment, the build rules indicate how different types of target files can be generated from different source file types. A given target file type may be associated with several rules, each having a different priority, for building the target from different source file types. In one embodiment, if more than one source file exists that can be used to generate a given target file, the rule with the highest priority is used. In one embodiment, the build environment identifies how to generate a particular target file by identifying the highest priority rule for which an associated source file type exists. Moreover, the development environment identifies the presence of a new source file having a corresponding build rule with a higher priority than that of the source file type(s) previously used in the generation of the target file. In one embodiment of the invention, the target file is rebuilt if such a new source file is identified, or if one or more source files previously used to build the target file are determined to have been modified more recently than that indicated by the build date/time of the target file itself.

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Roderick Adonis Chavez