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Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012

Filed:

Aug. 11, 2006
Applicants:

Sharat Shroff, Bellevue, WA (US);

Justin D Ronco, Bellevue, WA (US);

Joedy K Blackstad, Bothell, WA (US);

Wilhelmina P Dietrich, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Sharat Shroff, Bellevue, WA (US);

Justin D Ronco, Bellevue, WA (US);

Joedy K Blackstad, Bothell, WA (US);

Wilhelmina P Dietrich, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Community driven prioritization of customer issues is described. In an implementation, a selectable portion of a user interface providing interaction with a community forum is selectable by a user to indicate agreement and associate with a posting in the community forum. The user may then automatically be provided results generated in response to the posting. In another implementation, associations matching a plurality of users and postings are utilized to assign priority to the postings and to prioritize responses to the postings.


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