Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Vikas Rajvanshy

Yordan Ivanov Rouskov

Jane T Kim

Michael J Patten

Rui Chen

Aaron Michael Butcher

Warren G Stevens

Anthony T Chor

Yan Ke

Wei-qiang Guo

Robert J Mauceri, Jr

Sarah J Bowers

John B Bravenec

Daniel Tomko

Louis A Martinez

Mark H Schmidt

Michael Gradek

David B Flink

Jaime Martin Sanchez Lopez

Yi Lang Mok

Xuedong D Huang

David Steeves

Geoffrey John Hulten

Oludare Victor Obasanjo

Wei-Quiang Michael Guo

Vaishali De

Habtamu M Feyessa

William John Pardi

John Lynn

Pui-Yin Winfred Wong

Michael J McCann

Lin Huang

Sean Christian Wohlgemuth

Tarek Bahaa El-Din Mahmoud Kamel

Bradley J Barrows

Orville Charles McDonald

Xinguang Albert Chen

WeiQiang Michael Guo

Rammohan Nagasubramani

Hasrat Godil

Zhaowei (Charlie) Jiang

Vikrant Minhas

Paul R C Ming

Qing (Alex) Lu

Daniel Jason Tomko

Michael J Mccann

Xinguang Chen

Orville C Mcdonald

A search of displayed content may be automatically performed in response to receipt of a search gesture that defines a scope of the search and initiates the search. The search gesture may define a region of content within the displayed content. A search query may be formulated based on the region of content defined by the search gesture. In response to completion of the search gesture, a search may be automatically initiated. In some examples, the search gesture comprises a generally circular gesture that substantially bounds the region of content.

Gesture-based search

A plurality of queries associated with a plurality of user query object submissions to a scratch pad application executing asynchronously as a background application to a first user application may be obtained. One or more search requests may be initiated to one or more search engines based on each one of the plurality of obtained queries. Cumulative search results of the one or more search requests may be obtained, the cumulative search results accumulated over the plurality of obtained queries. A set of accumulated results metadata may be obtained based on an analysis of the accumulated cumulative search results. A display of a summary of the cumulative search results based on a relevance analysis of the accumulated results metadata may be initiated.

Search scratch pad

In one or more embodiments, a flip ahead input, such as a gesture, provides touch users with an ability to easily navigate various websites. The flip ahead input can be utilized to advance to the next portion of relevant content. In at least some embodiments, the flip ahead input resides in the form of a forward swipe. In one or more embodiments, the flip ahead input is configured to be utilized in association with an aggregated browsing history from multiple users. The aggregated browsing history is analyzed to generate rules that are then downloaded to a client device and used by a suitably-configured web browser to ascertain the next portion of content when a flip ahead input is received.

Rules for navigating to next content in a browser

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing topical search suggestions are provided. Topical search suggestions allow a user to receive search results related to the designated topic or subject matter. The present invention may generate multiple topics based on search input provided by a user. The search input may be a search prefix that includes one or more words entered into the search query box before the completed search query is submitted to the search engine. A search interface then presents the topics derived from the search prefix to a user before the user submits the query. In another embodiment, the user designates multiple search inputs. The present invention generates search results based on the search inputs and then presents topics extracted from the search results. In one embodiment, the topics are extracted by performing a natural language analysis of search result metadata.

Providing topic based search guidance

One or more strong proofs are maintained as associated with an account of a user. In response to a request to change a security setting of the account, an attempt is made to confirm the request by using one of the one or more strong proofs to notify the user. The change is permitted if the request is confirmed via one or more of the strong proofs, and otherwise the change to the security setting of the account is kept unchanged.

Protecting account security settings using strong proofs

A data center system includes a memory cache coupled to a data center controller. The memory cache includes volatile memory and stores data that is persisted in a database in a different data center system that is located remotely from the data center system rather than in the first data center system. The data center controller reads data from the memory cache and writes data to the memory cache.

Memory cache data center

A centralized account reputation system differentiates between illegitimate users and legitimate users using reputation scores associated with the users' online accounts. The system restricts the access of illegitimate users to certain network services while minimizing its negative effects on legitimate users. The system can manage the life cycle of an online account, considering data about the account that is obtained throughout the account network to compute the online account reputation score and allocating access to network services based on the online account reputation score. For example, a reputation score may be embedded in a security token that can be accessed by multiple services on the account network, so that each service can determine the appropriate level of access to be granted to the associated user account based on the reputation score. Various types of online account behavior over time can improve or diminish the online account's reputation.

Centralized account reputation

A device identifier (ID) is used across enterprise boundaries. A user can use the device ID to publish a device for sharing with other remote users. The remote users can discover devices that are shared by other users based on device IDs, connect to a selected device, and then verify that they have connected to the correct device based on its device ID. An account authority service may be used to manage the publication and/or discovery of the shared devices and their device IDs.

Device-specific identity

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Vikas Rajvanshy