Ho O Lee

20120117059, May 10, 2012

Nov 9, 2010

12/942577

Peter Richard Bailey - Kirkland WA, US
Chad Carson - Cupertino CA, US
Scott Joseph Counts - Seattle WA, US
Nikhil Bharat Dandekar - Bellevue WA, US
Ho John Lee - Palo Alto CA, US
Shubha Umesh Nabar - Mountain View CA, US
Aditya Pal - Minneapolis MN, US
Michael Ching - San Jose CA, US
Paul Alexander Dow - San Francisco CA, US
Shuang Guo - San Jose CA, US
Hyun-Ju Seo - Mountain View CA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30

707723, 707E17084

The author ranking technique described herein is a technique to rank authors in social media systems along various dimensions, using a variety of statistical methods for utilizing those dimensions. More particularly, the technique ranks authors in social media systems through a combination of statistical techniques that leverage usage metrics, and social and topical graph characteristics. In various exemplary embodiments, the technique can rank author authority by the following: 1) temporal analysis of link sharing in which authority is computed based on a user's propensity to provide early links to web pages that subsequently become popular; 2) topical authority based on the author's links and content updates in specific topic areas; and 3) popularity and influence based on nodal properties of authors.

20140282825, Sep 18, 2014

Mar 15, 2013

13/838078

- Redmond WA, US
MARC E. DAVIS - Redmond WA, US
HAIM SOMECH - Ramat Gan, IS
HO JOHN LEE - Palo Alto CA, US
ALLEN G. JONES - Redmond WA, US
ODED NAHIR - Herzliya, IS
JEFFREY D. FRIEDBERG - Redmond WA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06F 21/00

726 1

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for managing policy and permissions profiles. Individuals or organizations are permitted to author profiles utilizing a profile template and publish such authored profiles for access and adoption by others. Users are able to import desired profiles and subsequently have those imported profiles applied each time he or she accesses an application or service to which the profile pertains. User interfaces from which users may view profiles associated with them, make alterations to settings of profiles associated with them, and/or select from a plurality of profiles for a particular application or service are also provided. Still further, recommendations may be provided to users for policy and permissions profiles based upon, for instance, crowd-sourcing, profiles adopted by social network connections of a user or other users that are “like” a user, prior profile selections made by the user, and/or prior user behavior.