Slack Technologies, Inc.

Salesforce, Inc.

Hubert Florin

Roland Schemers

James McPhail

Lydia Han

Matthew Wahl

Brian Elliott

Shannon Tinkley

Zachary Coffman Sultan

Andrew Locascio

Cory Bujnowicz

Jahanzeb Sherwani

Daniel Stewart Butterfield

Paul Rosania

Wayne Fan

Neil Walker

Milo Watanabe

Patrick Kane

A group-based communication platform is configured to ascertain the relatedness of various work objects shared among users of the group-based communication platform. Moreover, the group-based communication platform may further receive and process work objects originating from non-users of the group-based communication platform, thereby further expanding the utility of the determined relatedness between work objects. These work objects (or encrypted representations of these work objects) may be indexed and stored in association with the group-based communication platform, thereby enabling users to search for and retrieve work objects originating from a plurality of work object sources simultaneously, and based on various characteristics of those work objects and the determined interrelatedness between various work objects.

Expandable data object management and indexing architecture for intersystem data exchange compatibility

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for sharing a shared interface and allowing participants to annotate the shared interface within a group-based communication system. A shared interface is shared by an interface sharing device to participating devices, which can then individually annotate the shared interface by creating interface annotations that then are shared on the shared interface by the interface sharing device. Such methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products provide for an efficient and effective method of advancing discussions among a group in a group-based communication system.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for sharing interface annotations among participating devices within a group-based communication system

Provided is a group-based communication interface configured to allow members of the interface to communicate within group-based communication channels. The group-based communication interface is configured to relegate selected group-based messaging communications to a separate display pane, where additional messaging communications can be received, thereby maintaining a focused selected group-based communication channel. The selected group-based communication channel is updated to indicate that the selected group-based messaging communications was relegated to a separate display pane, informing the channel members while also allowing the channel members to access the separate display pane if desired. Accordingly, the selected group-based communication interface provides for efficient and focused group-based communications.

Group-based communication interface with subsidiary channel-based thread communications

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Display screen or portion thereof with multi-state graphical user interface

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Hubert Florin