Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Xin Hu

Raghu Ram Hiremagalur Venkatesh

Shunlin Liang

Manas Haribhai Somaiya

Tao Cai

Madhulekha Arunmozhi

Vivek Yogesh Tripathi

Mohak Shroff

Ali Sadiq Mohamed

Muhammad Hassan Khan

Manish Swaminathan

Prateek Sachdev

Strahinja Markovic

Caitlin Marie O'Connor

Zeesha Currimbhoy

Hiroto Udagawa

Yingxia Shi

Embodiments of the disclosed technologies receive a first signal from a user session and create a first ranked list of content items. Based on the first signal, a first subset of the first ranked list is assigned to a first set of slots of the user session. A second subset of the first ranked list is assigned to a second set of slots of the user session. Based on user activity data and position context data, a second ranked list of content items is created. The second ranked list is assigned instead of the second subset to the second plurality of slots.

Asynchronous content switching

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

In various example embodiments, a system and method for generating a proxy email address for routing messages are presented. An email directed to a user with a proxy email address assigned by the system and with no registered email address is received at a proxy email address. Whether or not the email contains an action message identifier is ascertained. Based on the email containing an action message identifier, a forward email is identified. Text content from the forward email is extracted. A short message based on the extracted text content is generated. At least one communication channel to send the short message is selected based on an engagement level associated with the at least one communication channel. The short message may be caused to be presented at a mobile device associated with the user via the selected communication channel.

Proxy email server for routing messages

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