- Patent Title: Providing collaboration communication tools within document editor
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Application No.: US14857980Application Date: 2015-09-18
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Publication No.: US10409901B2Publication Date: 2019-09-10
- Inventor: Ruth Kikin-Gil , Patrick Davis , Shikha Desai , Seyit Yilmaz , Wesley Hodgson
- 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
- Main IPC: G06Q10/10
- IPC: G06Q10/10 ; G06F17/24 ; H04L12/58

Abstract:
Collaboration communication tools within a document editor are provided. An application such as a document authoring application displays a document and a communication panel adjacent to the document. The communication panel presents a conversation associated with the document. Communications and/or conversations associated with the documents may be obtained from different applications and aggregated to be presented in conjunction with the document. A new entry is detected for an insertion into the conversation associated with the document. The new entry is inserted into the conversation. An insertion of a section of the document into the conversation is also detected. The section of the document is tracked. The section of the document is displayed embedded into the conversation within the communication panel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170083490A1 PROVIDING COLLABORATION COMMUNICATION TOOLS WITHIN DOCUMENT EDITOR Public/Granted day:2017-03-23
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