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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsSandhya D. Jain, Ning Jiang, Gary L. Caldwell, Donald A. Ramsay, JR., Gail Borod Giacobbe, Venkatesh Veeraraghavan
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An enterprise-based social networking application. Events for individuals may be collected from various enterprise-based information systems automatically using adaptors that are specially tailored for particular types of information systems. Such events may then be used to populate event feeds regarding individuals in that enterprise. A filtering model for formulating event feeds identifies events by individual, event type, and event time. The filter also identifies which individuals are in which group of a participant, and identifies which groups correspond to which event types. Incoming events may then be filtered into the event feeds depending on the group to which the individual belongs. A user interface for a participant to view and edit group membership is also provided.
A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable media having thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one of more processors of the computing system, cause the computing system to instantiate the following:
A method for preparing to provide an event feed to a participant in a social networking application, the event feed prepared from events in an events pool, the events pool containing events regarding a plurality of individuals, the method comprising:
A method for presenting a user interface to a participant in an enterprise-based social networking application, the method comprising:
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