Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Apurv Suman

Robin Emily Wakefield

Sophia Isabel Vennix

Harold S Gomez

Victor E Kozyrev

Derik Bjorn Stenerson

Elaine Y Law

Benjamin J Bunker

Nicholas Michael Simons

Yu-Hsuan Wang

Daniel John Niezgocki Chattan

Michael Augustine Tavis

Kathleen Anna Cachel

Sneha Jayaprakash

Dheeraj Agarwal

Allison Hirt

Lee Chang

Brian Rhoades

Described herein is a system and method for displaying annotation(s) of an electronic document. User input to review (e.g., scroll) the electronic document is received, until a selected portion of the electronic document is displayed within a viewport pane of a display. In response to the review input, annotation(s) (e.g., comment(s), comment thread(s), annotation thread(s)) anchored within the selected portion of the electronic document displayed within the viewport pane are identified. Which annotation of the annotation(s) to visually distinguish for a focus of the user is determined. The identified annotation(s) are displayed in an annotation pane, with the determined annotation visually distinguished (highlighted) for the focus of the user. In some embodiments, the anchor associated with the determined annotation is also visually distinguished to provide a contextual link to the user and/or hint(s) that provided a visual signal of annotation(s) associated with an anchor on a particular line are displayed.

Top-align comments: just-in-time highlights and automatic scrolling

Systems and methods for displaying annotations associated with an electronic document. One system includes an electronic computing device with an electronic processor configured to display a user interface on a display device. The user interface includes a canvas displaying a first subset of content included in the electronic document and a region scrollable independent from the canvas. The electronic processor is also configured to display a first plurality of annotations in the region. Each of the first plurality of annotations are associated with an anchor within the first subset of the content and displayed spaced within the region in at least one dimension based on spacing of the associated anchors. The electronic processor is further configured to change the region to display a second plurality of annotations in the region in response to changing the canvas to display a second subset of the content included in the electronic document.

Scrollable annotations associated with a subset of content in an electronic document

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