Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Vivek Yogesh Tripathi

Adrian James Garside

Milena Salman

Samish Chandra Kolli

Manas Haribhai Somaiya

Tomer Cohen

Madhulekha Arunmozhi

Xin Hu

Ali Sadiq Mohamed

Shunlin Liang

Muhammad Hassan Khan

Manish Swaminathan

Prateek Sachdev

Aarthi Jayaram

Strahinja Markovic

Caitlin Marie O'Connor

Zeesha Currimbhoy

Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for reducing latency for providing a user feed containing one or more posts. One method includes operations for receiving a request to access the user feed and for performing a first query to search posts. The first query uses a first time horizon delimiting a creation time of posts and a first maximum number of posts selected for ranking. The posts from the first query are sent to the client device for presentation on a user interface. Further, a second query is performed to search posts, where the second query uses a second time horizon that is greater than the first time horizon and a second maximum number of posts for ranking that is greater than the first maximum number of posts. The posts from the first query and the second query are merged and sent to the client device for presentation.

Latency optimization for online service feed

Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for identifying unread elements and presentation context to generate real-time indicators for the unread elements. The systems and methods receive an indication identifying a member and identify content for presentation to the member. The systems and methods determine one or more presentation parameters for the content and one or more content parameters for the content. The systems and methods generate a content representation of the content for presentation within a user interface based on the presentation parameters and the content parameters, and cause presentation of the content representation at the client device associated with the member.

Real-time unread indicator

A system, method, apparatus and graphical user interface are provided for navigating a multi-component application or service&#x2014;such as an application that executes on a mobile device and that includes multiple features, pages, content items, utilities, settings, etc. A shortcut bar provides rapid access to application components that correspond to multiple shortcuts, and the shortcut bar can be opened, by swiping it, to reveal a set of options associated with an open shortcut (e.g., the shortcut closest to where the user swiped on the bar). The options can be scrolled (e.g., vertically) or swiped in another direction (e.g., sideways) to access options associated with other shortcuts. The shortcut bar and the options provide set paths of navigation to desired content, without regard to the current context (e.g., the displayed content). Navigation paths to the content via the current context will vary, depending on the displayed content.

Context-independent navigation of electronic content

Tile cache techniques are described. In at least some embodiments, a tile cache is maintained that stores tile content for a plurality of tiles. The tile content is ordered in the tile cache to match a visual order of tiles in a graphical user interface. When tiles are moved (e.g., panned and/or scrolled) in the graphical user interface, tile content can be retrieved from the tile cache and displayed.

Tile cache

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