Venkatesh Veeraraghavan

US Patent:

7698407, Apr 13, 2010

Filed:

May 22, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/419698

Inventors:

Bryant Fong - Kirkland WA, US
James C. Hilke - Redmond WA, US
Shane M. DeSeranno - Snohomish WA, US
Venkatesh Veeraraghavan - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/173

US Classification:

709223, 709220

Abstract:

Providing enterprise and targeted content to a personalized portal at a client device in a distributed environment. An administrator managing the distributed environment defines a plurality of workspace pages to be displayed to a user via the portal. The portal also includes a personalized page. The administrator determines workspace content to be provided to the user on the workspace pages via the portal, and the workspace content includes a set of predetermined content parameters. Targeted content is selected from the workspace content as a function of user profile data and the set of predetermined content parameters. The arranged targeted content and personalized content are rendered on the pages via the portal.

US Patent:

7853665, Dec 14, 2010

Filed:

Feb 18, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/782563

Inventors:

Venkatesh Veeraraghavan - Seattle WA, US
Lin Huang - Redmond WA, US
Targo Tennisberg - Bothell WA, US
Nathan Fink - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 3/00

US Classification:

709217, 715700, 707700

Abstract:

The present invention provides a system and method for targeting content to audiences. The audience is defined by rules that may be based on properties as well as organizational structure associated with the users. Each of the rules is compiled to determine the group of members belonging to the rule. Logical operators are then applied to the groups to determine the audience membership. Compiling the rules enhances performance as the rules do not have to be run each time. Instead, a simple check against the rules results is performed. The rules making up the audience may be compiled at predetermined times in order to keep the audience up-to-date. Audiences are then selected and tagged to content so that the content may be viewed by the selected audiences.

US Patent:

7979411, Jul 12, 2011

Filed:

May 22, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/438423

Inventors:

Puneet Narula - Redmond WA, US
Venkatesh Veeraraghavan - Seattle WA, US
Bryant Fong - Kirkland WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 7/00

US Classification:

707706, 707726, 707732, 705319

Abstract:

Search results are displayed according to relevance and grouped by the social distance between the person associated with the profile and the user performing the search. Metadata is defined of each of the profiles indicating groups affiliated the profile and a relevance value is determined as a function of the metadata for each of the profiles in the result set. The social distance is determined as a function of a colleague designation associated with the profile.

US Patent:

8145678, Mar 27, 2012

Filed:

Aug 29, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/201290

Inventors:

Gary Caldwell - Redmond WA, US
Ning Jiang - Bellevue WA, US
Venkatesh Veeraraghavan - Seattle WA, US
Gail Borod Giacobbe - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707802

Abstract:

Various embodiments can be configured to provide a social networking computing environment. In an embodiment, a networked computing system can be used to provide informational feeds and commenting functionality to users of a social computing environment. In one embodiment, an enterprise-based social computing system can be configured to provide informational feeds to social networking application users. An informational feed can be populated with events and other information associated with one or more users of interest of an application user, but is not so limited. In one embodiment, a social computing environment can be configured to allow user commenting to feed items or events that are associated with a user or group of users.

US Patent:

8364781, Jan 29, 2013

Filed:

Dec 14, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/967055

Inventors:

Venkatesh Veeraraghavan - Seattle WA, US
Lin Huang - Redmond WA, US
Targo Tennisberg - Bothell WA, US
Nathan Fink - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 3/00

US Classification:

709217, 715730

Abstract:

The present invention provides a system and method for targeting content to audiences. The audience is defined by rules that may be based on properties as well as organizational structure associated with the users. Each of the rules is compiled to determine the group of members belonging to the rule. Logical operators are then applied to the groups to determine the audience membership. Compiling the rules enhances performance as the rules do not have to be run each time. Instead, a simple check against the rules results is performed. The rules making up the audience may be compiled at predetermined times in order to keep the audience up-to-date. Audiences are then selected and tagged to content so that the content may be viewed by the selected audiences.

US Patent:

8370914, Feb 5, 2013

Filed:

Dec 15, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/968823

Inventors:

Javier Dalzell - Issaquah WA, US
Christian Roy - Redmond WA, US
William David Taylor - Redmond WA, US
Venkatesh Veeraraghavan - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 21/00

US Classification:

726 9, 726 5

Abstract:

A server system sends a first credential request to a passive requestor at a client device. After sending the first credential request, the server system receives a credential for a user of the client device. If the credential is valid, the server system can provide the passive requestor with access to a resource provided by the server system. After providing the passive requestor with access to the resource, the server system provides an active requestor at the client device with access to the resource without sending a second credential request to the active requestor. Consequently, it may not be necessary for a user of the client device to provide credentials twice in order for the passive requestor and the active requestor to access the resource.

US Patent:

8646095, Feb 4, 2014

Filed:

Nov 30, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/565432

Inventors:

Venkatesh Veeraraghavan - Seattle WA, US
Bryant Fong - Kirkland WA, US
Shunri Guo - Sammamish WA, US
James C. Hilke - Redmond WA, US
Rachel A. Elfenbein - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04L 29/06

US Classification:

726 27, 726 1, 726 2, 726 3, 726 4, 726 17, 726 26, 726 28, 726 29, 726 30, 713182, 709217, 709219, 709225, 709229

Abstract:

A request, from a requester, is received to view user information on a user's personal site associated with a user. A relationship is determined between the requester and the user. User information is provided to the requester based on the requester's relationship to the user.

US Patent:

20060074932, Apr 6, 2006

Filed:

Sep 30, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/955471

Inventors:

Bryant Fong - Kirkland WA, US
James Hilke - Redmond WA, US
Venkatesh Veeraraghavan - Seattle WA, US
Pawan Deshpande - Andover MA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707100000

Abstract:

Systems and methods for automatically recommending a personal network. The systems can include a review module programmed to review communication information. The systems can also include a recommend module in data communication with the review module, the recommend module being programmed to identify one or more contacts from the communication information to be included in a personal network. The recommend module can use a significance function to weight the communication information and rank the contacts identified in the communication information.