Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Arun Rajappa

Rajiv Kumar

Praveen Upadhyay

Mahesh Sridharan

Prashant Gupta

Deepak Pratinidhi

Sanjib Biswas

Apoorv Seth

Sunny Mitra

Mitali Jain

Aloka Sanjib Kumar Mitra

Sukanya Rajagopal

Rakesh Midha

Nikhil Maryala

Nitin Jaiswal

Manohar Kumar

Aayushi Joshi

Teekam Chand Goyal

Vikhyat Khosla

Harshvardhan Singh

Jayawant Tewari

Abhisek Kumar Behera

Techniques for annotating electronic content items include receiving over a communication network a first request to associate a first tag from among a plurality different of tags with first electronic content, wherein each tag from among the plurality of tags is: configured to label electronic content, and associated with a respective task from among a plurality of tasks; recording, in response to receiving the first request, a first association between the first electronic content and the first tag; and transmitting over the communication network to a first recipient client: the first electronic content, and an instruction to the first recipient client to cause the first recipient client to execute, in response to receiving the first electronic content, the respective task associated with the first tag on the first electronic content.

Extensible framework for executable annotations in electronic content

Methods and systems for revoking electronic messages. One method includes storing, for each of a plurality of forwarded messages, a record in a data store, each record including a link to an original message for the forwarded message, and receiving a request to revoke a forwarded message. In response to receiving the request, the method includes identifying an original message the forwarded message via a record stored in the data store and notifying, with an electronic processor, a user associated with the original message of the request to revoke the forwarded message. In response to receiving an instruction revoking the original source message from the user, the method includes identifying each forward of the original message via records stored in the data store and revoking the original message and each message associated with each record stored in the data store including a link to the original message.

Revoking messages within a message chain

Insertion of an executable command or instructions in the form of an annotation to electronic content, such that the receiver can benefit from a more precise and detailed context as they interpret and/or act on the sender's request. The system can, upon detecting an appropriate trigger, be configured to 'translate' or convert the annotation across multiple applications and platforms and perform one or more tasks that facilitate the receiver's access to and interaction with the item. The sender enjoys a much finer control over the manner, presentation, and overall context of the electronic content item as it is shared, and becomes able to offer the receiver a more precise understanding of their own intentions in sharing this item. Similarly, a receiver can be guided toward actions or responses that are expected or desired by the receipt of the electronic content item.

A messaging system for effecting effect instant messaging communication sessions (chats) between users of the messaging system allows 'actions' to be exchanged in chats. The actions are generated in an action database. A template-creating user can create a custom action template for generating actions, which is only available to certain users.

Actions in a messaging system

A messaging system comprising: computer storage holding messaging accounts for users of the messaging system, each comprising a user identifier of a first type; an account manager for managing the messaging accounts; a group manager configured to grant participant users access to messaging groups by creating, in the computer storage, associations between the messaging groups and the messaging accounts of the participant users; a group messaging service configured for use in transmitting and receiving messages, in each of the plurality of messaging groups, between the participant users granted access to that messaging group, using the user identifiers of the first type in their messaging accounts.

Creating groups in a messaging system

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Hyderabad Telangana, India

Arun Rajappa