Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Thomas Jan Stovicek

Erez Kikin-Gil

Tyler J Schnoebelen

Christine Anderson

Sara Liu Yang

Wendy Chan

Nancy Jane Bell

Sandra Hirsh

Omar H Shahine

Jackie Sandoval

Jennifer I Shen

Steven Kafka

Providing a user interface (UI) on a web page. A toolbar section is defined on the web page. The web page includes a content section being different and separate from the toolbar section, and the content section displays additional content of the web page. One or more groups are specified to include one or more action controls associated therewith. Each of the specified groups has a group identifier associated therewith. The one or more action controls are displayed according to the specified groups in the toolbar section of the web page. Each of the one or more displayed action controls includes properties associated therewith, and the included properties define at least one of the following: a name of the action control, a link of the action control, the group identifier of the action control, and a classification identifier of the action control.

Extensible and application-adaptable toolbar for web services

A communication confirmation message provides social networking events in combination with information regarding addresses to a member. The message can be used to suggest additional social network friends to members of a social network. The communication confirmation message is utilized to provide additional information on the social network member's friends, information from third party social networks, and recommendations to add individuals or second parties with whom the social network member communicates as friends.

Email confirmation page for social network notifications

A method for automatically generating a friend subset from contacts of a user based on future events is provided. Future social events data from an online social network including events to be attended by the user are received. Contacts having identity information from a contact list of the user are identified. Future social events data associated with the identified contacts, including events to be attended by the contacts, are received. Whether the identified contacts are scheduled to attend the same future social events as the user is determined. A friend subset of the determined contacts having future social events corresponding to the future social events of the user is selected and displayed on a web page. The user selects one of the contacts of the displayed friend subset, and the future social events to be attended by both the selected contact and the user is provided to the user.

Automatic friends selection and association based on events

Focusing electronic mail messages in a list of messages. Category information is received for classifying particular e-mail messages or senders of the messages in the list of e-mail messages according to a category. The method also includes setting a status data associated with each of the particular messages. The status data indicates the category classified by the user. A first instruction is received from the user for focusing the particular messages according to the category. The particular messages having the status data therewith in the list are focused collectively without altering a preexisting order of the messages in the list.

Inbox with focused messages according to categories

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Thomas Jan Stovicek