Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatically sharing a document with user access permissions
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Application No.: US15172058Application Date: 2016-06-02
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Publication No.: US10230731B2Publication Date: 2019-03-12
- Inventor: Joan Catharine Weaver , Benjamin Gustav Wilde , Patrick Michael Gan , Jade Kessler , Erin M. O'Connell , Suzan Marashi , Derik Stenerson
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
- Current Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Merchant & Gould P.C.
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F17/30 ; G06F17/24 ; G06Q10/10 ; G06F21/62

Abstract:
Inline command functionality for automatically sharing a document with user access permissions is provided. Automatic sharing of a document is performed in response to a trigger entry within the document. When a trigger entry and a user identifier entry is received, an auto-share system automatically resolves user access permissions in the background, detects sharing permissions, and shares the document with user access permissions without requiring the user who is sharing the document to manually input data. A notification is provided to the sharing user informing the user that the document is being shared, and another notification is provided to the user with whom the document is being shared including a link to the document. If the document was unintentionally shared, the sharing user is enabled to select the notification, and quickly and easily make modifications to the user access permissions for the document.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170353466A1 AUTOMATICALLY SHARING A DOCUMENT WITH USER ACCESS PERMISSIONS Public/Granted day:2017-12-07
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