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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2007
Kori M Quinn, Redmond, WA (US);
James Wallace, Ontario, CA;
Mary P Czerwinski, Woodinville, WA (US);
Roland Fernandez, Woodinville, WA (US);
Kori M Quinn, Redmond, WA (US);
James Wallace, Ontario, CA;
Mary P Czerwinski, Woodinville, WA (US);
Roland Fernandez, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed functionality enables non-sessions users of an activity session to be provided awareness of the session. The non-sessions users are made aware of the session and can then choose to join (or not join) the session in an ad hoc manner based on the exposed session information. This functionality encourages serendipitous group interactions (or participations) that might not otherwise occur, does not require that all relevant and/or interested people be identified, and removes the overhead of explicitly inviting everyone who might be interested in the activity and managing responses received from each of the users. Rather than requiring an explicit invitation to join as in conventional applications systems, users can implicitly invite friends to join an activity.