Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Umashree Narayanaswamy

Vindana Madhuwantha

Di Li

Sanjay H Ramaswamy

Dheepak Ramaswamy

Sreeram Nivarthi

Aaron James Harrison

Aleksey Ashikhmin

Nagendra Kalyan Nanduru

Tannaz Sattari Tabrizi

Mathew Kuzhithattil Aniyan

Koushik Dasgupta

Andrew C Owen

Yaming Liu

Marilyn Nicole Harris

Pramod Dhandapani

Brian Quistorff

Eric Radtke

Navid Ahmed Tahiri

Andrei Catalin Zlati

Omar Mustafa

A system and method for validating user profile data from a directory application is described. The system accesses user collaboration data of a plurality of users of an application. The system also accesses a directory application that manages user profile data for each user of the plurality of users. A set of heuristics is applied on the user profile data. The system validates results of the applied set of heuristics on the user profile data with the user collaboration data. The quality of the user profile data is assessed based on the validation.

Assessing quality of an active directory

A method may include retrieving metric data on a plurality of groups of users, the metric data including: a value of a performance metric for each of the plurality of groups; and an indication that a first group of the plurality of groups is anomalous with respect to a value of the performance metric of a control group of the plurality of groups; and presenting a user interface, the user interface including: a first portion including a visualization of a comparison of the value of the performance metric for the first group and values of the performance metric of other groups in the plurality of groups; and a second portion including a visualization of trend data of the performance metric for the first group over a period of time.

System for identification of outlier groups

Instant message servers configured for automatic instant message usage control in an instant message system are disclosed herein. In one example, an instant message server can be configured to determine an IM usage time of the user during the one or more IM sessions based on numbers of the detected occurrences of the IM events and weight factors corresponding to each type of the IM events. The weight factors correlate the numbers of occurrences of each type of the IM events to a corresponding IM usage period for each occurrence. The instant message server can then perform a comparison of the determined IM usage time of the user with a preset threshold and when the IM usage time of the user exceeds the threshold based on the comparison, automatically adjust the IM service provided to the user by the instant message server.

Automatic usage control of instant messages in computing systems

Growing community of inventors

Redmond, WA, United States of America

Umashree Narayanaswamy