Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Subash Kumar Bhamidipati

Abhishek Kumar

Rui Hu

Venkat Pradeep Chilakamarri

Brian Thomas Albrecht

Jill Kathleen Larson

Gargee Sharma

Ying Zhe Chong

Cancan Shi

Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan

Bhanu Samyal

Matthew Carlo Razza

Vidya Kotteri

A system for determining qualified contributors of a document is provided. A system can analyze user activities associated with a document to provide meaningful insights indicating the key contributors of the document based on a contributor policy. The contributor policy defines contribution factors and criteria that is used to determine when a user is deemed as a qualified contributor. The contribution factors can be used in an analysis of one or more user activities to determine a contribution score for each user associated with a document. The contribution scores of the users can be compared with a threshold to identify qualified contributors. The identified users are listed as qualified contributors of the document and associated with the document in the metadata. The contributor information can be utilized to inform readers of the document, identity expertise of these contributors, or recommend relevant documents to the contributors.

Determining key contributors for documents

Changing user settings across applications and/or across devices via a dialog within one application is provided herein. The systems and methods discussed herein provide for an improved user experience and fewer computing resources to be expended when changing user settings by aggregating the changeable settings, allowing for their modification via a single dialog, and distributing settings changes to remote hosts, which in turn provide consistent settings across devices. The settings available to the user may be governed in association with the user's licenses to access programs and may be affected by domain level controls by an administrator.

User settings across programs

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Subash Kumar Bhamidipati