Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Daniel Robert Amirault

Sanyam Sharma

Gareth Alun Jones

Gregory Akselrod

Omeed Chandra

Allison Gallant

Scott Kurtzeborn

Eun Ju Nam

Ginger Elizabeth Fang

Prashant Thiruvengadachari

Ignacio Omar Venado Estrada

Bharathwaj Raam Sampathkumar

Koushik Bhattacharjee

William Joseph Bishop

Nicholas Jordan Barnwell

Systems and techniques are disclosed for enabling structured data to be associated with visual content in a manner that preserves the ability to edit the visual content using a content application such as a notebook application. Techniques and systems enable semantic notation to be introduced into selected regions of the visual content that indicate the visual content's structured data, allowing the content to be searched and accessed more easily by common search technologies and search engines. The semantic notation is assigned to the visual content so that the introduction of the semantic notation does not hinder the user's viewing or editing of the visual content with a content application. The inclusion of the semantic notation does not cause existing visual editing tools that do not understand the semantic notation to cease to function properly.

Storage and retrieval of structured content in unstructured user-editable content stores

Technology is disclosed herein that enhances collaboration notifications. In various implementations, a notification queue is maintained for internal notifications that are generated as editing events that occur in relation to a shared document. The notification queue is periodically queried to determine which of the notifications qualify at a given time to be communicated externally to a group of users. An individual notification is communicated when only a single internal notification qualifies. But when multiple internal notifications are present that qualify, then a group notification is sent. Thus, users are presented with fewer notifications than otherwise, improving the user experience and conserving communication and computing resources.

Enhanced notification of editing events in shared documents

Reducing computational load for systems tracking tasks performed in a shared electronic environment allows for users to receive more nuanced notifications about the use of the shared of the electronic environment, more frequent notifications, or let the systems use those resources for other purposes. The systems and methods discussed herein provide for batching and queueing of tasks to reduce the computational load of systems and thereby improve the systems themselves and the user experience.

Batched tasks

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Daniel Robert Amirault