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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:
May. 15, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 19, 2015
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Jinchun Xia, San Jose, CA (US);

Jacob Kessler, Mountain View, CA (US);

Elaine Chien, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Zhijun Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment, a technique is disclosed herein to determine a first group of users for which a particular user is a member and automatically generate a first ranking of users in the first group. For the particular user, automatically generate one or more first action recommendations to increase rank among the users in the first group. And to a device accessible by the particular user, automatically provide a particular ranking of the particular user from among the first ranking and the one or more first action recommendations.


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