Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Teekam Chand Goyal

Rajiv Kumar

Prashant Gupta

Deepak Pratinidhi

Nitin Jaiswal

Ashutosh Tripathi

Arun Rajappa

Vinay Kumar

Rohit Bhatia

Rakesh Midha

Apoorv Seth

Techniques for enrolling a user in an organization directory include receiving a first request from a first user for inclusion in the directory configured to facilitate access to a collaboration application, the first request including a least a first user profile item for the first user; generating a first user account for the user assigned a first set of permissions and including a first user profile listing the first user profile item; providing a first level of access to the directory; receiving a second request from a second user transitioning the first user account from the first set of permissions to a second, broader set of permissions; verifying a first user identity for the first user based on the second request; assigning the first user account the second set of permissions; automatically updating the directory; and providing a second level of access to the directory to the first user.

System and method for directory decentralization

A messaging system comprising: computer storage holding messaging accounts for users of the messaging system, each comprising a user identifier of a first type; an account manager for managing the messaging accounts; a group manager configured to grant participant users access to messaging groups by creating, in the computer storage, associations between the messaging groups and the messaging accounts of the participant users; a group messaging service configured for use in transmitting and receiving messages, in each of the plurality of messaging groups, between the participant users granted access to that messaging group, using the user identifiers of the first type in their messaging accounts.

Creating groups in a messaging system

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Hyderabad Telangana, India

Teekam Chand Goyal