Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Swati Jhawar

Chad A Voss

Mira Lane

Michael Brasket

Larry Waldman

Srivathsan Jagadeesan

A centralized skills management server, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer-implemented method for standardized skill tagging are described herein. The method includes accessing, via a processor of the computing system, a property graph including data objects corresponding to a tenant and extracting skills-related terms from object metadata corresponding to the data objects within the property graph. The method also includes interfacing with a global skills graph via an API and importing standardized skill tags from the global skills graph, where the imported standardized skill tags relate to the extracted skills-related terms from the object metadata. The method further includes incorporating the standardized skill tags into the object metadata for the corresponding data objects within the property graph.

Centralized skills management via standardized skill tagging across tenant resources

A centralized skills management server, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer-implemented method for skills inference are described herein. The method includes executing a web-based application on a remote computing system operated by a user associated with a tenant and extracting skills-related terms associated with the execution of the web-based application. The method includes interfacing with the global skills graph via an API and importing standardized skill tags relating to the extracted skills-related terms. The method also includes accessing a property graph including data objects corresponding to the tenant that include object metadata with incorporated standardized skill tags, extracting a portion of the data objects including object metadata with incorporated standardized skill tags that match the imported standardized skill tags relating to the skills-related terms, and surfacing a skills-related functionality on the display of the remote computing system, where the skills-related functionality utilizes the extracted portion of the data objects.

Centralized skills management via skills inference within context of global skills graph

A unified messaging platform is described which provides a comprehensive environment for collaboration, file sharing, and project management. In one aspects, a system includes hardware processing circuitry configured to receive a message, the message identifying a user via a user callout, identify a device associated with the user, identify a device type of the identified device and one or more applications on the identified device, generate, based on the device type and the one or more applications, a notification including machine-executable instructions that, when accessed and executed by the device, cause the one or more applications to display a notice about the user callout, and send the notification to the device.

Unified messaging platform and interface for providing user callouts

A unified messaging platform is described which provides a comprehensive environment for collaboration, file sharing, and project management. In aspects, the unified messaging platform is organized based on one or more teams or projects, where each team or project is further organized by customizable categories. A user interface is provided for ready access to information related to each category (e.g., communications, files, tasks, work product, etc.), which information is automatically and seamlessly synchronized across the platform such that each team member remains abreast of the current progress and status of a project. For instance, cooperation and collaboration are facilitated by features such as user callouts, which operate to easily join or notify team members of a current conversation or request.

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