Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Siddharth Uppal

Yuri Dogandjiev

Shiraz Jitendra Cupala

Kevin D Morrison

Eric Jonathan Hull

Mansoor A Malik

Archana Saseetharan

Rajiv Ramaiah

Rajesh Rangarajan

Aaron William Linne

Alexander Tobias Powell

Lei Yang

Manasi Sharma

Beste Nazilli

Sagar Nagaraja Shastry

William J Bliss

Larry Jin

Adrian Orbita Solis

Mao Yu

Ruben Delgado

Kollen Glynn

Prem Sai Reddy Kareti

Kevin Daniel Morrison

Yuri Georgiev Dogandjiev

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable medium that enable a seamless handoff of authentication states between an application of a first service (e.g., a web-application) and a component of the first service that invokes a function within the second application (e.g., such as bots or agents of the first service executing within collaborative platforms of a second service). This may be accomplished through the use of a link that encodes a nonce.

Web-app authentication and agent handoff

Updating user-specific instances of a second application for individual users of a group based on a data file for the second application being shared via a collaboration object that corresponds to the group within a first application. The instances of the second application present each individual user with their own custom user experience that is configured to provide access to specific content based on object permissions data. An application extension is executable, by the first application, to extend content editing functionalities of the second application into the collaboration object. Responsive to specific content being associated with the collaboration object via the application extension, each of the instances of the second application may be automatically updated to provide direct access to the specific content. Thus, each user within the group defined for collaboration object can access the data file via the collaboration object and their own instance of the second application.

Updating user-specific application instances based on collaborative object activity

Systems and methods are provided that securely authenticate a user of a web application. For example, the user may utilize a bot from within a first application, such as a chat application. The user may request the bot to access a second application (e.g., a social-networking application) that is remote from the first application. If the bot does not have authorization, the bot may redirect the user to a webpage for the second application, where the user may enter login credentials. Upon verification, the second application may provide an access token to a webpage associated with the bot. To authenticate the bot user, the bot webpage may generate and cache a nonce that is transmitted back to the first application, which then transmits it to the bot. The bot may then compare the received nonce with the cached nonce. If the nonces match, the user may be securely authenticated.

Securely authenticating a bot user

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to providing a cross-iframe solution for instructing embedded content to reuse current in-browser app instances but to load different content. In this manner, a new in-browser app instance does not have to be loaded each time a context switch is performed. More specifically, cross-iframe communications are used to instruct an existing in-browser app instance to load new content such as, for example, a new embedded document.

Re-homing embedded web content via cross-iframe signaling

Targeted customer loyalty promotions are managed by an application through a point of sale contact. The application recognizes a customer visiting a store through communication (e.g. near field communication) with a customer device. The application receives a customer identifier (ID) from the customer device. Using the customer ID, the application retrieves a customer record matching the customer ID from a local data store of the point of sale, a networked data store, or a social network data store. The application determines customer loyalty promotions associated with the customer record and transmits the customer loyalty promotions to the customer.

Managing targeted customer loyalty promotions

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