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Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 16, 2019
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Jason Thomas Faulkner, Seattle, WA (US);

Rajiv Ramaiah, Bellevue, WA (US);

Tiphanie Lau, Seattle, WA (US);

Sonu Arora, Kirkland, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/043 (2013.01); H04L 51/046 (2013.01); H04L 51/16 (2013.01); H04L 51/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method directed to determining one or more polls that a user may have missed during a period of inactivity is provided. Initially, a polling system may determine that a user is now active and may determine one or more polls that were created for or assigned to a user, or a group to which the user belongs, during the period of inactivity. The polling system may then surface a notification and/or an input window such that a user may provide polling input. In some instances, a user may have missed multiple polls; the polls presented to the user may be based on recent user activity and/or whether such missed polls are still live, or open.


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