Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Docugami, Inc.

Taqi Jaffri

Marcin Sawicki

Michael Brian Palmer

Jean Paoli

Andrew Paul Begun

Michael Taron

Zubin Rustom Wadia

Christina Pavlopoulou

Kush Gupta

Andrew Minh Hoang

David Watson

Zhanlin Liu

Jerome George Paliakkara

Zhaofeng Wu

Manar Shehadeh

Yue Zhang

Xiaoquan Zhou

Swagatika Sarangi

Bhaven Toprani

Elena Pricoiu

Eric White

Steven DeRose

Joshua Yongshin Fan

Luis Marti Orosa

Vishal Vikram Ghotge

Gregory Alan Howard

Kaushik Sethuraman

Edward C Chung

John David Bruner

Omar Aftab

Xin Liu

Sapna Mahendra Bafna

Michael V Sliger

Thomas Dee McGuire

Syed Mansoor Jafry

Alexander Petrov

Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other computer-implemented methods are used to identify various semantically important chunks in documents, automatically label them with appropriate datatypes and semantic roles, and use this enhanced information to assist authors and to support downstream processes. Chunk locations, datatypes, and semantic roles can often be automatically determined from what is here called 'context', to wit, the combination of their formatting, structure, and content; those of adjacent or nearby content; overall patterns of occurrence in a document, and similarities of all these things across documents (mainly but not exclusively among documents in the same document set). Similarity is not limited to exact or fuzzy string or property comparisons, but may include similarity of natural language grammatical structure, ML (machine learning) techniques such as measuring similarity of word, chunk, and other embeddings, and the datatypes and semantic roles of previously-identified chunks.

Cross-document intelligent authoring and processing, with arbitration for semantically-annotated documents

Enabling flexible processing of semantically-annotated documents

Automatically identifying chunks in sets of documents

Automatically assigning semantic role labels to parts of documents

Assisting authors via semantically-annotated documents

Cross-document intelligent authoring and processing, including format for semantically-annotated documents

Systems and methods for controlling ad delivery to mobile clients while maintaining user privacy are herein provided. One exemplary method involves a location broker service. The method includes receiving, at an ad delivery service, a location use token from a mobile client, which may be a single use token. The method includes sending, from the ad delivery service, the location use token to the location broker service for verification at the location broker service. The method includes receiving, at the ad delivery service, the mobile client location from the location broker service based on the verification. The method includes delivering, from the ad delivery service, a location-targeted ad to the mobile client at the mobile client location, where the delivering is further based on a geographic density of a plurality of mobile clients. An advertiser using the ad delivery service may be billed based on location use token history.

Controlling ad delivery to mobile clients

An application may be integrated into an operating system component of a mobile computing platform. The application communicates registration information to an extension mechanism within the mobile computing platform. The extension mechanism registers the application and modifies the operating system component to provide interoperability with the application based on the registration information. The extension mechanism couples the operating system component with content from a counterpart application to the application, which corresponds to information presented on the operating system component.

Integrating an application into operating system components of a mobile computing platform

The subject disclosure is directed towards integrating an application into an operating system component of a mobile computing platform. The application communicates registration information to an extension mechanism within the mobile computing platform. The extension mechanism registers the application and modifies the operating system component to provide interoperability with the application based on the registration information. The extension mechanism couples the operating system component with content from a counterpart application to the application, which corresponds to information presented on the operating system component.

A method is used to develop and maintain a user's lifetrail, which is a historical record specifying the location of the user while in possession of a mobile communication device. A mobile device determines its current location by extracting a beacon ID from a signal source and transmitting it to a remotely-located server, which accesses a look-up table to find the corresponding location of the signal source represented by the beacon ID. The location may be specified in accordance with a spatial compression technique. The server transmits the signal source location back to the mobile device so that the mobile device knows that it is located within the coverage area of the signal source. Battery power is conserved by collecting the beacon IDs when it is receiving the beacon signals for some other purpose and not necessarily solely for the purpose of determining its current location. Battery power can be further conserved by deferring the resolution of the beacon IDs so that they are not necessarily associated with their corresponding location when they are received, but only at some later convenient time. In some cases resolution of the beacon IDs may be performed using social graph data received from a social network.

Mobile communication device maintaining lifetrails in a battery efficient manner

Controlling resource access by entities hosted by an execution extension environment via entity identifiers associated with the resources or with the execution extension environment. Policy sets define the access to the resources. Each policy set includes a principal identifier for execution extension environment, a resource identifier for one of the resources, and access rights. The principal identifier or the resource identifier includes one of the entity identifiers. Access requests from entities are evaluated by comparing the entity identifiers to the policy sets. In some embodiments, the policy sets implement access control for web browsers hosting executable code that attempts to access resources on a computing device.

Controlling access to resources by hosted entities

Selecting and providing context information relevant to a user at a particular time and location. Input parameters such as a location and time are selected. Context information is obtained for the selected location and time based on the input parameters. Exemplary input parameters include a user activity history, user content such as calendar appointments, social networking data, and a state of a computing device of the user (e.g., as collected by sensors of the computing device). The computing device of the user presents the obtained context information to the user at the selected location and time.

Providing information to users based on context

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