Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Facebook, Inc.

Aol Inc.

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Oath Inc.

Verizon Media Inc.

Socrata, Inc.

Steven Miles Greenberg

Adrienne C Meisels

Stephen J Coughlin

Rakesh Agrawal

Alan Keister

Jennifer Granito

Michael Sommers

Lark Dunham

Carol A Glover

Christopher Armstrong

Jeffrey E Larsson

Barry Appelman

Kevin Joseph Fischer

Shen Wang

Eric A LeVine

Brian Eugene Kihneman

Clinton Dee Covington

Andrew Robert Miller

Gregory Scott Lindhorst

Kirk A Glerum

Thomas Scott Coon

Pavel R Karimov

Michael Ronn Marcelais

Vijay Mital

Matthew James Ruhlen

Todd Haugen

Neil Warren Black

Peter Alan Carlin

David Charles LeBlanc

Daan Lindhout

Benjamin E Canning

Brian T Hill

Konrad Tupaj

Sumit Chauhan

David Jon Conger

Zachary P Woodall

Christopher Cushen White

Joseph Milan Filcik

Aaron E Erlandson

Vijayalakshmi Ramkumar

Robert Scott Cooper

Meredith Anne McClurg

Michael Hopkins Smith

Chris Seitzinger

Stephen I Lesser

Vitore Selca

Christopher Cameron White

Ryan Christopher McMinn

Benjamin Neiman Hodes

Amarinder Singh Grewal

Alexander Alexandrovich Spiridonov

Aaron Everett Erlandson

Gregory L Chan

Daniel J Cole

Jeff David Mitchell

Ritu Singh

Russell Sinclair

Michael J Eatough

Tobias Joakim Bertil Ternström

Christopher Todd Seitzinger

Jeffery D Mitchell

David Michael Jade

Karin Hellman

Marc Slemko

Jessica Locke

Franklin Williams

Saf Rabah

Giacomo Ferrari

Randy Antler

Marc Millstone

Ben McInnis

Thomas S Coon

Eric A Levine

Collecting and distributing information related to recent content publication activity of an instant messaging (IM) user provides other users in a network with timely, relevant information about people known to the user or within the same social network. A user participating in a social network can quickly and efficiently perceive new information related to other users (referred to as co-users) in a social network by reviewing the co-users' recent content publication activity. A user may be made able to do so without requiring the co-user to send a communication directly to the user regarding the new facts or new content, and also without requiring the user to actively browse or request information about the co-user.

Systems and methods for distributing published content among users of a social network

Social network information may be shared across online service providers. Thus, one online service provider M that maintains a membership separate from a second online service provider N may nevertheless use the social network maintained by the second online service provider N to tailor content and/or services base on such social network information.

Sharing social network information

Social network information may be shared across online service providers. Thus, one online service provider M that maintains a membership separate from a second online service provider N may nevertheless use the social network maintained by the second online service provider N to tailor content and/or services based on such social network information.

Indicating recent content publication activity by a user

Embodiments described herein provide enhanced computer- and network-based methods, techniques, and systems for automatically accessing large bodies of potentially disparate data in a compelling environment without the limitations of access provided by spreadsheet systems and in a uniform manner for all types of data. Example embodiments provide an Automated Data Visualization System ('ADVS'), which enables users to access data typically provided by backend systems of organizations in an environment that automatically presents the data using user interface patterns that align with the data. In an example embodiment, the ADVS comprises one or more functional components/modules including an attribute determination logic/engine, a visualization logic/engine, a resizing logic/engine, and a scaling logic/engine in addition to a user interface. Also, in one example embodiment the visualization utilizes a user interface card metaphor to present information.

Automated computer visualization and interaction with big data

Techniques are described for providing a meeting notification and automatic modification service. A system may be configured to identify an appointment in a calendar application, identify a geographic location of the appointment, and identify, before the appointment time, a geographic location of a first participant of the appointment. Based on the geographic information, the system may identify a route extending from the geographic location of the first participant to the geographic location of the appointment, and may identify a travel time associated with the route. Based on the travel time and the appointment time, the system may determine whether the first participant is estimated to arrive at the appointment on time and, based on the determination, the system may send a message to participants of the appointment or dynamically reschedule the appointment.

Meeting notification and modification service

Technologies are described herein for providing a two-tier failover service. A request to access content by an application associated with an application identifier may be identified. A first record corresponding to the application identifier may be retrieved from a database information table. The first record may include a reference identifier, a database name of a database, and a failover value. A second record corresponding to the reference identifier may be retrieved from a server information table. The second record may include an indication of a first server computer as a primary server computer and an indication of a second server computer as a secondary server computer. A connection specification to either the first server computer or the second server computer may be generated based on the first record and the second record.

Two-tier failover service for data disaster recovery

Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing adaptive timeline views of data. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, data is displayed in an adaptive timeline view in which data is presented using a time scale. The time scale can be modified to increase or decrease a span of time displayed by the adaptive timeline view, or a span of time can be shifted without affecting the time scale applied to the data. Motion can be used to convey information about the data during transitions from a first view to a modified view. As such, the adaptive timeline view can convey various layers of information to a user interacting with the adaptive timeline view.

Adaptive timeline views of data

Technologies are described herein for generating a platform-independent data application. In one method, a definition of a data schema is received for defining data types. A definition of a user interface is also received for access data stored in the data types. Further, a definition of business logic is received for enforcing validation rules and actions associated with the data types. The definitions of the data schema, the user interface, and the business logic are each received in a platform-independent format and used to generate the platform-independent data application.

Platform-independent data application description language

A method and apparatus are provided for displaying help content corresponding to the occurrence of an event occurring within a computer. An alert help data file is periodically downloaded at a client computer. When a program alert occurs within a client computer, the alert help data file is searched to identify help content corresponding to the particular occurrence of the alert. An alert identifier may be uniquely assigned to each alert to assist in locating the corresponding help content. Moreover, an assert tag and a function result value may also be utilized to define and locate particular help content. Once located, the help content may be displayed to a user.

Method and apparatus for providing help content corresponding to the occurrence of an event within a computer

An application module generates a query that may involve retrieving data from a local data storage source or from an external data storage source. The application module retrieves metadata to form a query tree stored in the local data storage source and uses the query tree to ascertain one or more sub-queries necessary to complete the query and whether the necessary data for each sub-query is stored locally or externally. Based on the location of the data to complete a sub-query, the application module uses the services of an internal query processing layer if external data is involved for the sub-query. The application module uses the services of a query processing layer in the local data storage source if the data is local. Once all the sub-queries associated with the query tree are performed, then the overall query results are returned to the application module.

Dynamic query for external data connections

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