Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sreeharsha Kamireddy

Ramez Naam

Emre Mehmet Kiciman

Silviu-Petru Cucerzan

Chun-Kai Wang

Michael Austin Schechter

Cory Hicks

Rick Gruenhagen

Technologies pertaining to the creation of personalized data for an individual, including personalized data based on a social networking participant's social networking data, entity extraction, and automatic collage generation are described herein. In one implementation, the personalized data is used to provide a personalized, social-based replacement for a default UI element. In one implementation, a disambiguated named entity is extracted from user generated content in a social networking application, a socially interesting photomontage is automatically generated based on photographs from a social networking application, and the photomontage is rendered with hotspots containing socially relevant annotations.

Social home page

Sharing of search histories is facilitated with a computer based system and method that allow a searcher to share search results generated without prior authentication of an identity with a search engine. Sharing and collaboration are further facilitated by allowing search history items to be shared with a minimum of additional searcher input. Context for the search history items is provided by associating a search query with an accessed document link without requiring separate tagging of the link by the searcher.

Sharing and collaboration of search findings

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Sreeharsha Kamireddy