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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Ramesh T. Bangalore, Redmond, WA (US);
Charles D. McClintock, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sushma Ashwin Rao, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Neelanjana Sachdev, Redmond, WA (US);
Dhruv Malhotra, Redmond, WA (US);
Scott Garrett Thompson, Seattle, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system to obtain multiple feedback inquiries associated with an application and to ensure that at least a minimum duration passes between successive inquiries being shown to a user. The system may receive dynamic inquiries from an inquiry server that is external to the client device running the application and also receive static inquiries included within computer code of the application. The system may order (e.g., rank) the multiple inquiries according to priority to generate a prioritized inquiry sequence. The system may then refrain from exposing low priority inquiries if higher priority inquiries have yet to be exposed to solicit user input. Individual inquiries can include a classifier to enable the system to determine associations between discrete inquiries and to govern a rate at which groups of associated inquiries are shown to a user.