Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Bloomreach Inc.

Sumit Garg

Murari Sridharan

Arulkumar Elumalai

Ratul Mahajan

Girija Bhagavatula

Ashutosh Garg

Deepak Bansal

Rajesh Ramanathan

David G Thaler

Eran Shtiegman

Mahendra D Sekaran

Danny Levin

Romil Shah

Alexander Darrow

Vinit Deshpande

Scott A Plette

Divya Jindal

Marc Boyer

Ramkumar Rajendran

Apurva Kumar Gupta

Soubhik Bhattacharya

Alexander W Darrow

A system for ranking search results can be utilized to make a search engine more effective in finding relevant search results. In embodiments, an e-commerce search engine can identify one or more generic identifiers and one or more nonessential search terms in a search query. The nonessential search terms can be disregarded to generate a set of candidate search results from a product and/or service index.

Search ranking

Sleeping device(s) may be changed from a sleeping state to an awake state using a multicast packet that sent to a multicast address of a multicast wake-up group. The packet may include an identifier for one or more particular device(s) in the multicast group, which, when received by the device(s), causes the device(s) to wake up.

Remote device waking using a multicast packet

Techniques for managing and applying an availability profile are described. An apparatus may comprise a profile management component operative to store a profile for a user having a condition for activation, a user agent component operative to determine whether the condition is satisfied, a user location component operative to determine a location of the user, and a communication component operative to apply the profile to communication for the user if the condition is satisfied. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for managing and applying an availability profile

A mobile device roaming architecture for use with a mobile device, such as a cellular phone, roaming a WiFi network. In instances where the mobile device attempts to roam to a different wireless access point managed by a controller using a different authentication key, the roam process can be excessively long such that the voice signal is disrupted or fails entirely. A detection component detects the roaming attempt, and a connection component switches the call back to the original access point controller before the call has a chance to drop. In this way, a connection is maintained to the network. A mitigation component performs an operation to maintain a connection to the call as the mobile device moves out of range of the original access point.

Inter-controller roam management and prediction for voice communications

Call forwarding profiles corresponding to call forwarding settings based on time, location, and/or presence states of a called party are created. Different call forwarding settings are then activated based on corresponding predefined call forwarding profiles. Users are enabled to pre-configure their call forwarding profiles based on one or more rules.

Managing call forwarding profiles

A computer may be capable of communicating with devices via network through multiple interfaces. When a new connection is to be established, the computer may select an interface to use for the connection. In some embodiments, the interface may be selected based on historical connection information representing the performance of previous network connections that the computer has established through the interfaces.

Network interface selection using historical connection information

A method for transferring a telephone call from a client computer to a second electronic device includes establishing a connection for a telephone call between the client computer and a first electronic device, and sending a request to a server computer to transfer the telephone call from the client computer to the second electronic device, the client computer and the second electronic device having the same user, the request initiating a consultation call to the second electronic device. The method also includes receiving a response from the server computer that the second electronic device has accepted the telephone call, and replacing the client computer with the second electronic device as a party in the telephone call with the first electronic device, the continuity of the telephone call being maintained at the first electronic device during the time that the client computer is replaced with the second electronic device.

Using consultation call to transfer call across endpoints

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Sumit Garg