Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Abraham Mathew

Heidi McAllister

William Guthrie Morein

Apeksha Godiyal

Emil Cicos

Raveendrnathan Loganathan

Fergal Burke

Sung Won Shin

Hani Saliba

Thomas Charles Underhill

Cynthia Dahl Wessling

John Zhongqi Wang

Charles Duze

Cassandra Lewis

Heidi Munson

Subalakshmi Venugopal

Po-Yan Tsang

Philippe-Joseph Arida

Phillippe-Joseph Arida

Mustafa Bilal

David Peter Cole

Matthew T Adereth

Mairead Therese Droney

Loic Henry-Greard

Chad Nedzlek

Jade Bissat

Charles Burns

James M Krantz

A method for providing linked note-taking includes receiving a notification from an online presentation service presenting a document that a note file relating to the document has been created in a client application, requesting at least a portion of the document and document information from the online presentation service, receiving, from the online presentation service, the at least a portion of the document and document information retrieved from a client application where the document resides, receiving a note within the note file and associating the note with at least a portion of the document and document information without locally opening the document in the client application.

System and method for providing linked note-taking

A generic means for synchronizing information about a user's view of a document or other content within an application across native client and web applications is provided. Attendees of an online broadcast are enabled to see what the presenter is seeing within their own application. In addition, meeting-specific information such as the meeting time and notes may be synchronized enabling nearly real time synchronization. Moreover, by enabling attendees to view the presented document within their own applications, the attendees are afforded the capabilities provided by that application, such as navigating through the document manually.

Real time document presentation data synchronization through generic service

Extensible architecture and data flow in a web based diagram visualization service is accomplished by enabling a diagram update engine to launch custom data modules. Data modules for data sources that are not inherently supported are created by third parties through a specially defined interface (e.g. .NET&#xae; assemblies) and made visible for the web based diagram services and callable from a diagram update engine. Thus, a number of data sources from which diagram data can be retrieved and the way incoming data is manipulated and aggregated is extensible through code.

Extensibility for web based diagram visualization

Technologies are described herein for refreshing data-linked diagrams on a server computer and viewing and consuming the refreshed diagrams via a Web browser. A drawing program allows equations within a diagram definition to define how external data is utilized to modify the attributes of a diagram element. When the diagram is published to a server computer, the definition is converted to server-legible definition. A published diagram is generated that includes a diagram representation defined by the server-legible definition. Upon a request for the published diagram, the external data is refreshed and the diagram definition is updated. The equations are recalculated to generate new element attributes. The diagram representation is then updated with the new attributes and returned for display by a client Web browser. An interface provides exploration tools and a client API exposes methods for surfacing external data and annotating the diagram.

Web-based visualization, refresh, and consumption of data-linked diagrams

Technologies are described herein for high-performance rasterization of a vector graphic on a server computer. A vector graphic loader receives the vector graphic and generates an intermediate data structure from the vector graphic. A vector graphic renderer receives the intermediate data structure and renders the intermediate data structure to a render surface. An imaging component encodes the contents of the render surface to a raster image in a standard image format. The vector graphic loader and the vector graphic renderer are configured for multi-threaded and multi-processor execution on a server computer, which provides high performance.

Server-based rasterization of vector graphics

A computer-implemented method and system for designing shapes for a software module. Drawing software modules typically provide master shapes that are used as templates in creating drawings. The function of master shapes is generally controlled by behaviors. The invention improves upon existing approaches to designing master shapes by providing a uniform procedure for creating master shapes. The present invention supports the creation of a uniform set of behaviors that are stored independently of the master shapes. The stored behaviors are the preferred methods for controlling the functions of the master shapes. Individual stored behaviors can be selected and used to create the characteristics of a master shape. Using a uniform set of stored behaviors that are implemented in a preferred manner facilitates the management and maintenance of the behaviors and the master shapes they control.

Method and system for designing and implementing shapes in a software module

A facility for linking data from an external data source to shapes in a diagram is provided. The facility is implemented as a component of a graphical visualization program, and provides a modeless data window that is operable to display data from a data source through a two dimensional table. Users can use the facility to import data from a data source and display the imported data in the modeless data window. Users can then use the modeless data window to select and drag rows displayed in the modeless data window onto shapes on a drawing surface of the graphical visualization program to link the dragged rows to the shapes. Users can also drag rows displayed in the modeless data window onto a blank section of the drawing surface to create shapes on the drawing surface and link the rows to the created shapes.

System and method for interactively linking data to shapes in a diagram

An Object Instruction Language (OIL) provides a method for recording macros in a computer language independent syntax so that the macro can be converted into the source code of multiple computer languages without having to re-record the macro or translate the macro from the recorded language to an alternate language, thereby reducing the time needed to create macros for multiple computer languages, reducing the likelihood of error inherent in repeating a single task multiple times, and providing users of the software with an opportunity to record macros in the users' preferred language.

Method and system for recording macros in a language independent syntax

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