Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rubaiyat Khan

Peter Eberhardy

Daniel Larsen

Elizabeth Ann Holz

March Rogers

Christina M Meyer

Kelly Elizabeth Rollin

Bojana Ostojic

Choon-mun Hooi

Stefanie J Danhope

Alice Jane Brush

Nathaniel Eric Breskin Auer

Joseph T Wyman

Jaclyn Konzelmann

Abigail Welborn

Richard Lee Dickinson

Humberto Lezama Guadarrama

Bharath Swaminathan

Andrew Nathan Magee

Alisa Yujin So

Hong Lin

Mesganaw Anteneh

Tyler M Peelen

James S Head

Ronghua Jin

John C Robinson

Brandon J Simons

Nicholas J Patrick

Vicentiu Adrian Omusoru

Ankini Shah

Abigail Welbom

Atul Shenoy

Daniel Stiner

A user sends a location request to a user of a group that requests the user's current location. For example, one family member may send a location request to another family member that is part of their family group for their current location. The user receiving the request may accept the location request or reject the location request. When the location request is reject, the requesting user is not provided with the current location information of the user. When the location request is accepted, the requesting user is provided with the current location information of the user. In addition to providing the location information to the requesting user, the location may also be shared with other members of the group. For example, a message may be sent to each of the family members that are part of the group that informs them that a member has updated their location.

Requesting a location of a user

A system for controlling a device to track the location of the device is provided. The system identifies an initial location of the device. The system then identifies a plurality of areas having different sizes. Each area encompasses the identified location. For each of the areas, the system registers the area with a location provider to receive a notification when the location provider detects that the device has left the area. Upon receiving a notification that the device has left an area, the system may repeat the process of identifying the location and the areas and registering the areas to continue tracking the location of the device.

Location tracking based on overlapping geo-fences

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with user interface

An application displays a user interface (UI) component. A client can apply customizations to this UI component. After the client applies customizations to the UI component, the client modifies a solution set containing solutions that modify the UI component. After the client modifies the solution set, the application displays a new version of the UI component. Modifications provided by the solutions in the solution set are applied to the new version of the UI component. In addition, the customizations remain applied to the UI component without the client manually re-applying the customizations to the UI component.

Merging modifications to user interface components while preserving user customizations

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Rubaiyat Khan