Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Shivaram Prabhakar

Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie

Ashish Mehta

Kruthika Ponnusamy

Shiraz Jitendra Cupala

Kevin D Morrison

Eric Jonathan Hull

Szymon Madejczyk

Lan Ye

James Paul Kardos

Kshitij Mahendru

Sabra Alexis Wieditz Rossman

Samarth Gupta

Julia Nancy Foran

Prasad Thiruveedu

Sharad Bajaj

Shri Vidhya Alagesan

Julia Foran

Alexey Goloshubin

Rama Krishna Prasad Satya Prakash

Traditionally, meetings are widely utilized in business and personal communications, whether in-person and/or virtual. Organizing such meetings typically involves multiple exchanges of content and messages between users before, during, and after the meeting. In some cases, meetings may occur impromptu and may result in inefficient and unproductive collaboration. A collaboration object configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate before, during, and after a meeting is provided. In aspects, the collaboration object links content generated before, during, and after the meeting in a single location and provides functionality for concurrent multi-user interaction and synchronization of the content across applications. The collaboration object may be available from a variety of application platforms, enabling and persisting real-time editing and collaboration before, during and after the meeting.

Object for pre- to post-meeting collaboration

Techniques for providing unified user interfaces among actively paired devices, including that first and second devices are actively paired together at a first time based on a determination that the first device is in physical proximity to the second device when the first and second devices are both authenticated for a same user service account; receiving, at the first time, an indication of an actuation of a first user interface control associated with a teleconferencing session and presented by the first device; and causing, in response the receipt of the indication and the determination that the first and second devices are actively paired together at the first time, a real-time component of the teleconferencing session to be rendered by the second device while a first user associated with the user service account is joined to the teleconferencing session as a participant.

Teleconferencing interfaces and controls for paired user computing devices

A server allows pairing of a computing device with a companion computing device so that they may automatically connect to one another in the future. Pairing is accomplished by responding to a user request to pair a particular companion device by identifying computing devices associated with a particular user account, and directing those devices to monitor whether they are in range of a proximity signal (such as a BLUETOOTH&#xae; signal). A user interface on the companion device displays a list of devices specific to the user that are in proximity to the companion computing device, so that the user can choose a device to pair with the companion computing device.

Proximity-based pairing and operation of user-specific companion devices

Techniques for providing unified user interfaces among actively paired devices, including determining that first and second devices are actively paired together at a first time based on a determination that the first device is in physical proximity to the second device when the first and second devices are both authenticated for a same user service account; receiving, at the first time, an indication of an actuation of a user interface control associated with a user activity and presented by the first device; and causing, in response to the receipt of the indication and the determination that the first and second devices are actively paired together at the first time, the second device to present a user interface associated with the user activity.

Unified interfaces for paired user computing devices

A server device may host a communication application that remotely accessed by a computing device. Display data generated by a remotely accessed application is communicated to the computing device from the server device. The display data generated by the remotely accessed application is communicated from the computing device to another computing device associated with a user participating in the communication session hosted by the communication application. A communication application executing on the other computing device displays a user interface of the remotely accessed application by processing the display data.

Screen sharing via a thin client application

A device is disclosed, which includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The memory includes executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the device to perform functions of receiving user interaction data from a remote device via a communication network, the user interaction data indicating user interaction with a graphical user interface of the remote device; determining, based on the user interaction data, that the user interaction causes a display conflict between the graphical user interface of the remote device and visual information displayed on the graphical user interface of the remote device; and resolving the display conflict by causing the remote device to display modified visual information. The device thus allows a user to see and interact with the graphical user interface without needing to stop or pause displaying the visual information or to wait for the visual information display to be over.

Display conflict elimination in videoconferencing

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Shivaram Prabhakar