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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Satish Kumar Musukula, San Jose, CA (US);
Zengzhong Li, Bellevue, WA (US);
Vinod Shanbhag, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vivek Bhaskaran Iyer, San Jose, CA (US);
Vikas Sabharwal, Sammamish, WA (US);
Bi Xue, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems, apparatuses, services, platforms, and methods are discussed herein that provide user search services to a communication platform. An example user search service receives a query indicted by a user to find users of a communication platform associated with one or more search terms. The example user search service also presents to the user a search result view comprising resultant users on the communication platform, where the search result view includes one or more graphical annotations in association with ones of the resultant users that indicate a quantity of common users on the communication platform between the user and the ones of the resultant users.