Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sam Franklin Williams, Iii

March Rogers

Kathleen R Thompson

Amanda A Alvarado

Keri Talbot

Matthew James Ruhlen

Brian Kenneth Dewey

Matthew Eckstein

Jennifer Hui-ni Hwang

Ariel Nicolas Gordon

Hani Saliba

Sarat Chandra Subramaniam

Eric Wayne Doerr

Kiran Akella Venkata

William Thomas

Michael Robert Van Waardhuizen

Aaron Everett Erlandson

Jeremy Scott Barton

Michael Vandekerkhof

Valentin Nikolaev Razmov

Jonathan Yoder Brenner

Chad Arthur Nedzlek

Tia Bianca Caldwell

Amy Caryl Nathanson

Systems, methods, and software are described herein for enhancing features within program applications. In an implementation, a user associated with a productivity application is identified and a service application associated with the user is identified. A service feature that corresponds to the service is enabled within the productivity application. The service feature allows the user to perform a function on content generated with the productivity application that is related to the service.

Enabling service features within productivity applications

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for discovering and disambiguating identity providers such that user knowledge of appropriate identity providers is minimized. Users are presented with options for selecting appropriate providers only when multiple providers have user profiles matching a user identifier. When users are presented with options for selecting appropriate providers, providers that have user profiles matching the identifier are identified utilizing identity information for the application that utilizes the identity provider for its users rather than information identifying the identity provider itself. Where it is determined that no identity provider has a user profile associated with the user identifier (or where it is determined that a particular identity provider would generally be appropriate to be utilized with the user identifier), the opportunity for users to create an authentication account with one or more identity providers or to retry with a different user identifier is provided.

Discovering and disambiguating identity providers

A determination is made as to whether a user has been logged off from the web-based application accessed through a web browser on a computer. If it is determined that the user has been logged off from the web-based application, then a new user interface is provided through the web browser. The new user interface may enable the user to enter user credentials. The user credentials are received through the new user interface. A request to validate the user based on the user credentials is transmitted. Upon transmitting the request to validate the user, an instruction to remove the new user interface is received when the user is validated. Upon receiving the instruction, a display of the web-based application is transformed by removing the new user interface.

Asynchronous identity establishment through a web-based application

According to some embodiments, a callback interface for web accessible services is provided. A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or similar address is issued by a host associated service to the user. User's browser provides the URL to an activity service, which on the user's behalf contacts the host service indicated by the URL and supporting the callback interface. The activity service then facilitates the user's requests on documents maintained by the host service through stateless calls to the host service providing web accessible services such as document manipulation, image processing, and similar ones.

Interfacing distinct services for providing web based document manipulation access

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Tools and techniques for routing users to receive online services based on online behavior are provided. These tools may receive representations of activity involving different users in interacting with online services, and may analyze these representations of user activity. The tools may also compute scores for the users based on this previous user activity. The scores may indicate a server system, out of several server systems, which the user is to be routed to obtain online services. The tools may also store the user's score as associated with the user.

Routing users to receive online services based on online behavior

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