Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Steven Kafka

Eliot Carleton Gillum

Omar H Shahine

Jennifer I Shen

Jason Fergus Moore

Ashutosh Tewari

Sara Liu Yang

Thomas Jan Stovicek

Aby John

Michael James Ahiakpor

Jennie Park Telehowski

Richard Craddock

Krish Vitaldevara

Gandhimathi Vaithilingam

An authentication process receives information identifying a user, a device used by the user and a location in which the device is being used. That authentication process determines whether the location is among a set of familiar locations stored about the user for a service being accessed. If the location is not among the set of familiar locations, then the user is not authenticated. A desirable user experience can be obtained by using information about any existing relationship, such as a synchronization relationship, between the device and the service established at a prior familiar location. Instead of challenging a user whose device is in an unfamiliar location, the authentication process determines whether the device has a relationship established with the service. If the device has a relationship established with the service, then the set of familiar locations is updated to include the location in which the device is being used.

Using trusted devices to augment location-based account protection

A communication confirmation message provides social networking events in combination with information regarding addresses to a member. The message can be used to suggest additional social network friends to members of a social network. The communication confirmation message is utilized to provide additional information on the social network member's friends, information from third party social networks, and recommendations to add individuals or second parties with whom the social network member communicates as friends.

Email confirmation page for social network notifications

Techniques involving unified messaging and other functionality are described. In one or more implementations, the techniques describe receiving a message at a web service from a messaging client and identifying a communication device that includes telephone functionality and is configured to format the message as a short messaging service (SMS) message. The SMS message may be identified by a phone number associated with the communication device. The message may then be sent to the communication device for automatic transmission of the SMS message by the communication device over a phone network.

Techniques for unified messaging

Scheduled message cleanup techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a method implemented by one or more computing devices includes detecting that a message has been received from a sender for delivery via a user account. Responsive to a determination that an option has been selected for the sender in association with the user account, a previous message from the sender that is to be delivered via the user account is removed and the detected message is kept for delivery via the user account.

Scheduled message cleanup

A computer implemented method for assisting email users. The method determines the relevance of email addresses to users and utilizes the relevance information to assist users in addressing emails. The method may include gathering email addresses from one or more sources including inbound user emails associated with an email user, and determining a relevance of the email address to the user based on a heuristic. Once relevance is determined, the method includes applying relevant email addresses to a user's store of relevant addresses.

Email addresses relevance determination and uses

A method for determining whether to recommend a social relationship between a social network member and another party is disclosed. Electronic communication activity of the social network member and the other party is monitored. Based on a number of characteristics of the communication, a determination is made as to whether to recommend the party to the member as a social network friend. The characteristics can include how the parties communicate&#x2014;whether through email, instant messaging and/or voice communication, whether the parties send direct email messages to each other, whether they communicate as part of a group email message, the location of each parties address in the email message and whether communication includes sharing activity.

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