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Vasudha Chandrasekaran

Asta Jane Roseway

Gerrit H Hofmeester

George Joy

Seung Yang

Melora Zaner-Godsey

Nicole Danielle Steinbok

Ranjib Singh Badh

Finbarr Duggan

Steven Abrahams

Geeven Singh

Troy A Schauls

Marcella C S Rader

Aarthi Natarajan

Seshagiri Panchapagesan

Vlad Cretu

Brian Scott Moudy

Amy Wai-Yee Ip

Richard Michael Eames

Jeroen Van Turennout

Jonathan Eric Gleasman

Leslie Macneil

Francislav Petrov Penov

Benjamin N Truelove

Jeffrey Jon Weir

Moneta K Ho Kushner

Wissam S Kazan

Alexandra K Heron

Amanda Font

Mona Akmal

Shazaan Bahrainwala

Alexander K Heron

Samuel DeKoven Grossberg

Kieran M Phelan

Daniel L Odell

Marcella CS Rader

Techniques involving selective modification of keyboard presentation and functionality. A commanding mode is selectively activated on a virtual keyboard. Activating the commanding mode attributes commands to respective individual keys of the virtual keyboard. Also in response to the commanding mode, indicia suggestive of the command is presented on those individual keys to which the commands were attributed. The commands can be executed in an application in response to selection of the respective individual keys when in commanding mode.

Dynamic command presentation and key configuration for keyboards

Within a social network, a user may establish a set of contacts who share with the user various content items and comments related thereto. However, these content items are often hosted by a content source outside of the social network, and the user may have to transition to the content source to view the content item, and then transition back to the social network to submit a comment. Instead, a device may monitor the social network to record shared content items. When the user requests a presentation of the content source, the content items hosted by the content source that have been shared with the user may be included in the presentation. The presentation of the content source may also accept comments from the user regarding a content item, and send the comments to the social network where the content item was shared with the user.

Presenting content items shared within social networks

Various technologies pertaining to instant messaging are described herein. A persistent instant messaging group is created, wherein the persistent instant messaging group comprises a plurality of members and persists over a plurality of instant messaging sessions. Instances of an instant messaging application are installed on mobile telephones, and the instant messaging application is used to transmit instant messages between members of the persistent instant messaging group. Messages directed towards offline members of the persistent instant messaging group are transmitted to such members when they come online.

Persisting a group in an instant messaging application

Display screen with keyboard graphical user interface

Display screen with keyboard user interface

A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a request to create a persistent messaging group for an instant messaging application, wherein the request includes an indication of one or more entities that are desired to be members of the persistent messaging group. The system further includes a group creator component that creates the persistent messaging group based at least in part upon the received group creation request, wherein the persistent messaging group is persisted over multiple instant messaging sessions.

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Vasudha Chandrasekaran