Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Gregory Scott Klabish

Raymond Edward Ozzie

George P Moromisato

Eric M Patey

Patrick Michael Halvorsen

Donna Shaw

Jerry J Shekhel

Pamela J Taylor-Paris

Gail Elaine Slapikoff

Mark R Szamrej

Technologies are described herein for collaborative management of activities occurring during the lifecycle of a meeting. A collaboration program includes functionality for collaborative management of activities occurring during the entire lifecycle of a meeting. Using the collaboration program, meeting participants can collaborate on the creation of a meeting agenda prior to the occurrence of a meeting, can independently take and exchange meeting notes during a meeting, and can collaboratively generate a meeting summary following the meeting. The meeting agenda, meeting notes, and meeting summaries can be synchronized to a shared workspace accessible to each of the meeting participants through the collaboration program.

Collaborative management of activities occurring during the lifecycle of a meeting

A conventional operating system folder or directory based file system is implemented with, or enhanced to provide, attributes of shared collaborative workspaces. In particular, the conventional file system is connected to either a server based or a distributed collaboration system and the user interface of the operating system file system is augmented to allow it to control aspects of the collaboration system. Each folder or directory can be synchronized and treated as a 'workspace' that can be viewed and shared with other users or groups of users. Folder can also be provided with 'awareness' information that indicates collaborators that are present and those that are sharing the workspace.

Method and apparatus for providing attributes of a collaboration system in an operating system folder-based file system

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Gregory Scott Klabish