Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Thomas Forsythe

Arthur Charles Tomlin

Jason Bradley Scott

Cameron Graeme Brown

Jeffrey Alan Kohler

Brian Murphy

Jonathan Gustav Paulovich

Evan Michael Keibler

Dave Hill

Christopher Bruce Weare

Eric Jonathan Hull

Various embodiments relating to detecting at least one of conversation, the presence and the identity of others during presentation of digital content on a computing device. When another person is detected, one or more actions may be taken with respect to the digital content. For example, the digital content may be minimized, moved, resized or otherwise modified.

Conversation, presence and context detection for hologram suppression

Digital content items are shared using content-recommendation messages by recognizing an indication of a digital content item to be recommended and recognizing an indication of an intended recipient of the digital content item. A content-recommendation message for that digital content item is then built. The content-recommendation message includes first instructions for displaying, with a first visual appearance and a first feature set, information relating to the digital content item if the intended recipient belongs to a first class. The content-recommendation message includes second instructions for displaying, with a second visual appearance and a second feature set, information relating to the digital content item if the intended recipient belongs to a second class.

Content-recommendation message

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Thomas Forsythe