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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2013
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Steven Ickman, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Thomas Matthew Laird-McConnell, Kirkland, WA (US);
William Lawrence Portnoy, Woodinville, WA (US);
Christopher McConnell, Redmond, WA (US);
Lili Cheng, Bellevue, WA (US);
David Arthur Raskino, Kirkland, WA (US);
Gregory Scott Melander, Renton, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A topic feed is generated for publication or distribution to a set of followers or recipients who have elected to receive the topic feed from the user or based on the subject matter content of a topic input in the topic feed. The topic feed is distributed and includes the topic input. Experts in subject matter can be identified based on the user's topic input and/or text in the topic feed that the followers interact with.