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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 22, 2007
Applicants:

Raymond E. Ozzie, Seattle, WA (US);

George P. Moromisato, Seattle, WA (US);

Abhay V Parasnis, Sammamish, WA (US);

Noah B Edelstein, Medina, WA (US);

William D. Devlin, Sammamish, WA (US);

Anthony D Andrews, Sammamish, WA (US);

Inventors:

Raymond E. Ozzie, Seattle, WA (US);

George P. Moromisato, Seattle, WA (US);

Abhay V Parasnis, Sammamish, WA (US);

Noah B Edelstein, Medina, WA (US);

William D. Devlin, Sammamish, WA (US);

Anthony D Andrews, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); H04L 29/08684 (2013.01); G06Q 10/103 (2013.01); H04L 29/08675 (2013.01); H04L 12/582 (2013.01); H04L 12/5815 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and user interfaces for gathering and using awareness information with common awareness functionality accessible to multiple applications are disclosed. Such systems, methods, and user interfaces may aggregate awareness information from multiple sources and provide awareness data and other derived information to multiple destinations. In some implementations, such systems and methods may provide additional functionality related to awareness information, such as common user interfaces that display awareness information or mechanisms for determining the relevance of particular pieces of awareness information.


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