Google Inc.

Gregory George Galante

Behnoosh Hariri

Luiz Do Amaral De Franca Pereira Filho

Victoria Hsiao-tsung Chou Fritz

Igor Kopylov

Kevin Winter

Olga Sergeyevna Saviano

Haluk Burcin Tunali

Jacob Robert Voytko

Etan Bukiet

Samuel Benjamin Messing

Emily Cahill

Norbert Zsolt Kenderesi

Shamil Parbhoo

Jeffery Hoehl

Lloyd Mckenzie

John Gabriel D'Angelo

Joy Xi

Matthew Jay Isison

Mathieu Turcotte

Leeran Raphaely

Bikin Chiu

Ali Abdelhadi

Jeffrey De Blanc Palm

Lindsay Grace Hall

Dennis Jing Jing Liang

Yu Xin Cheng

Miles Henrichs

Blake Kaplan

Dennis Hu

Shawn Thomas Leslie

Matthew Izatt

John Gabriel D'ANGELO

A method includes providing, by a collaborative electronic data platform, a collaborative electronic document for presentation on a first device of a first user. The collaborative electronic document includes a table associated with a third-party platform. The method includes determining a table synchronization option is activated, and sending via an API, a request to synchronize content of the table in the collaborative electronic document with content associated with the third-party platform. The method includes receiving, via the API, data for the table and updating the table. In response to input of the first user, the method includes adding data to the table and causing the table to be presented on the first device. In response to input of a second user, the method includes adding data to the table and causing the table to be presented on the first device.

Automated synchronization of third-party data from within a collaborative electronic data platform

An electronic document associated with users of a collaborative document platform is identified. The electronic document is associated with a data structure including entries that each correspond to an approval request for a respective user to approve at least a portion of content of the electronic document. At least a portion of the data structure is embedded within the content of the electronic document for presentation to a first user. A first user updating a first entry of at least a portion of the data structure is detected. The update to the first entry corresponds to a first approval request for a second user to approve one or more portions of the content of the electronic document. The data structure is updated to include data of the first entry in accordance with the update to the first entry by the first user.

Tracking approvals for an electronic document managed by an electronic document platform

Techniques are described herein for implementing collaborative poll elements within a document in a document editing application. A method includes: receiving first user interface input that indicates a first vote, associated with a first user, in an interactive poll element embedded in a first document; determining that the first user interface input is received via a first instance of the document editing application; and in response to determining that the first user interface input is received via the first instance of the document editing application: updating a list of votes associated with the interactive poll element by adding the vote, corresponding to the first user, to the list of votes associated with the interactive poll element; updating a cryptographic digital signature associated with the interactive poll element; and providing the updated list of votes and the updated cryptographic digital signature to each of the plurality of users.

Secure voting in a collaborative online document editor

An electronic document associated with users of a collaborative document platform is identified. The electronic document is associated with an approval data structure including entries that correspond to approval requests. A portion of an approval data structure is included within the content of the electronic document for presentation to a first user. A first user updates a first entry of the portion of the approval data structure included within the content of the electronic is detected. The update to the first entry corresponds to a first approval request for a second user to approve a portion of the electronic document. A first notification is transmitted to a second client device associated with the second user. The first notification indicates the first approval request. The approval data structure is updated to include data of the first entry.

The technology herein involves accessing content of an electronic document and a shared layout for the electronic document, wherein the shared layout provides a layout for user devices having different dimensions of display areas; rendering the content of the electronic document onto a primary rendering surface and a secondary rendering surface, wherein the primary rendering surface is associated with a native platform of a user device and the secondary rendering surface is associated with the shared layout of a server; applying operation commands to modify the primary rendering surface, the operation commands resulting from a user interaction with the electronic document; merging the operation commands into a merged operation call; and invoking the merged operation call to modify the secondary rendering surface, wherein the merged operation call reduces a number of operation calls that modify the secondary rendering surface and is shared with the server to modify the shared layout.

Interactively presenting a visible portion of a rendering surface on a user device

Systems and methods disclosed herein provide a method that includes obtaining, at a user device from a remote storage server, content relating to an electronic document, and rendering the content of the electronic document onto a first virtual rendering surface. The method further includes maintaining a second virtual rendering surface that stores a current state of the first virtual rendering surface. The method further includes obtaining an operation command relating to the electronic document, and retrieving first state information of the first virtual rendering surface and second state information of the second virtual rendering surface. The method further includes applying the operation command to the rendered content of the electronic document on the first virtual rendering surface, and updating at least one of the first state information or the second state information based on a type of the operation command.

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for resolving a change to a table. A processing circuitry receives, from a user in a collaborative document editing environment, the change to the table, wherein the change comprises an expansion of a first cell in the table. A first state of the first cell is identified, wherein the state is indicative of a number of columns and a number of rows over which the first cell spans, and at least one of the number of columns and the number of rows is greater than one. A second state of a second cell that is adjacent to the first cell is identified, and the processing circuitry selects whether to allow the expansion of the first cell based on the second state of the second cell.

Merging table cells via expansion in a collaborative document having row span and column span properties

Systems and methods may include updating subsets of elements of electronic documents. Associations of types of mutations, mutation locations, and subsets to update are stored in a database. A mutation to the element is received, and a type and location of the mutation are determined. Based on a stored association, a subset of the element is determined. The determined subset is associated with the determined type and determined location. The element is updated by updating the subset, and the updated element is displayed on a user device.

Systems and methods for updating subsets of elements of electronic documents

Systems and methods for merging table cells via expansion based on states of cells

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Little Silver, NJ, United States of America

Gregory George Galante