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Andrew Boktor

Patrick Michael Gan

Sugandha SudeshKumar Kapoor

Brian Daniel Meersma

Theo Lorrain-Hale

Simoune Rebekah Morena Valerio Lucas

Orkhan Muradov

Cosmin Catrinescu

Vivek Mogalapalli

Nikhil Vilas Kulkarni

Kori Michelle Loomis

The present disclosure is directed to automated notification generation, where a generated notification comprises a live representation of a content update that is linked and synchronized with a distributed collaborative canvas (or other source content) comprising the content portion which is being updated. A non-limiting example of a content update is a message notification, such as an at-mention (@mention), that is included inline within a content portion. Other triggers for automated notification generation are also described. Generation of an exemplary notification comprises a contextual relevance analysis that not only selects, for a recipient of the message notification, a specific host application/service endpoint to present the notification in but also determines how/what specific content to present inline within the selected host application/service endpoint. The notification is automatically generated and provided to a selected host application/service endpoint for rendering of the notification inline with content of the host application/service endpoint.

Automated notification of content update providing live representation of content inline through host service endpoint(s)

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