Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Tanya L Swartz

Gagan Chopra

Ahmad Mahdi El Husseini

Arif Kureshy

Dmitry V Zhiyanov

Jayadev Pillai

Girish Premchandran

Misha H St Lorant

Eric J Horvitz

Eyal Ofek

Jin Li

Xin Wu

Jeffrey Darren Couckuyt

Srikanth Avadhanam

Joseph Schwartz

David Ethan Zoller

Steve Lombardi

Alan Paulin

Zhenyu Qian

Yue Zhuge

A method of facilitating customization of a software-implemented business process includes storing, within a mobile computing device, a subscription list of entities. The subscription list is defined by subscription metadata. Customized data is received. The customized data corresponds to the entities identified in the subscription list. The received customized metadata is stored on the mobile computing device.

Metadata driven customization of a computer application

A method of facilitating customization of a software-implemented business process includes storing, within a mobile computing device, a subscription list of entities. The subscription list being defined by subscription metadata. Customized data is received. The customized data corresponds to the entities identified in the subscription list. The received customized metadata is stored on the mobile computing device.

Metadata driven customization of a software-implemented business process

Driving directions can be helpful if in addition to spatial information, landmark information is provided. Landmarks assist in adding context to directions as well as allowing for a greater likelihood of success of an operator following directions. There can be employment of physical identification of landmarks as well as processing regarding the utility of a landmark in regards to driving directions. Driving directions can be highly useful if integrated landmarks relate to knowledge possessed by an operator of a vehicle. Landmark based driving direction can be integrated with advertisements that relate to the directions.

Landmark-based routing

In a method of customizing a software-implemented business process on a mobile computing device, customized metadata defining customizations of the business process are provided. Next, the metadata is deployed to the mobile computing device and stored in a data store of the mobile computing device. The customizations defined by the metadata are then applied to the software-implemented business process.

The present system aggregates information from a plurality of different context sources. The present system also makes that aggregated information available to requesting components by abstracting it into a generalized form. Thus, the developer of a context-aware application need only know how to interact with the context service of the present invention, rather than knowing how to interact with each and every one of the context sources.

Context service system

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