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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2010
Nathan James Fish, Seattle, WA (US);
Leslie Rae Ferguson, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey Berg, Seattle, WA (US);
Nina F. Shih, Redmond, WA (US);
Joo Young Lee, Redmond, WA (US);
Derek Matthias Hans, Seattle, WA (US);
Kuldeep Karnawat, Seattle, WA (US);
Nicole Danielle Steinbok, Redmond, WA (US);
Xiping Zuo, Kirkland, WA (US);
Nathan James Fish, Seattle, WA (US);
Leslie Rae Ferguson, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey Berg, Seattle, WA (US);
Nina F. Shih, Redmond, WA (US);
Joo Young Lee, Redmond, WA (US);
Derek Matthias Hans, Seattle, WA (US);
Kuldeep Karnawat, Seattle, WA (US);
Nicole Danielle Steinbok, Redmond, WA (US);
Xiping Zuo, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A state client is configured to allow a user to specify a meeting-specific state, such as that the user is running late for a meeting, checked in to the meeting, or unable to attend the meeting. A state service stores data identifying the user's meeting-specific state. The state service also responds to requests for the state of the user. In one implementation, when such a request is received, the state service determines whether the user is an invitee to the same meeting as the user requesting the state. If not, the state service returns a general-purpose state indicator for the user. If both users are invitees to the same meeting, the state service returns the meeting-specific state indicator, which may then be displayed by a state client.