Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jan Heier Johansen

Jon Meling

Bernhard Kohlmeier

Madeline Schuster Kleiner

Vegar Skjaerven Wang

Torbjørn Helvik

Vegar Skjærven Wang

Jignesh Shah

Jan-Ove Almli Karlberg

Tor Kreutzer

Torbjorn Helvik

A method and system for intelligently organizing one or more groups of relevant files may include retrieving a user data signal including user-specific data, analyzing the user data signal to identify a parameter relating to file relevance, identifying one or more relevant files in a storage medium based on the parameter at least one of a user category property, a lifecycle stage property, a relevant activity property, or an activity level property of one or more files in the storage medium, organizing the one or more relevant file into the one or more groups of relevant files, and providing for display data relating to the one or more groups of relevant files.

Intelligently identifying and grouping relevant files and providing an event representation for files

A method and system for receiving data relating to one or more activities performed by a user on a document within a specific time period, the one or more activities being performed by using an application, analyzing the data to identify a category of user activity based at least on the type of activity performed on the document, and transmitting a signal to a device for storage in association with the document, the signal including the identified category.

Intelligently identifying a user's relationship with a document

A method and system for intelligently ranking search results may include receiving a search request containing one or more terms for performing a search, providing the one or more terms for conducting a search, and receiving a search results index containing a list of a plurality of documents, each of the plurality of documents corresponding to one of the one or more terms or to one or more other terms associated with the at least one of the one or more terms. Once the search results index is received, the method and system may access a plurality of properties associated with at least one of the plurality of documents, the plurality of properties including a user category associated with the at least one of the plurality of documents, calculating a relevance score for the at least one of the plurality of documents based on at least one of the plurality of properties, selecting a subset of the plurality of documents for presenting to a user based at least on the calculated relevance score, and providing the subset of plurality of documents for presenting to the user.

Intelligent ranking of search results

Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for determining authoritative documents based on implicit interlinking and communication signals. In aspects, a search operation may be initiated from one or more applications or services. The search operation may be processed to identify search information, such as one or more content items, content topics, or entities. The identified search information may be used to search one or more data sources for implicit relationships between the search information and content items and/or entities stored by the data sources. The results of the search may be collected and ranked according to one or more criteria. The ranked results may be provided in response to the search operation.

Determining authoritative documents based on implicit interlinking and communication signals

A method and system for intelligently notifying collaborators of activity on collaborative content include receiving a first indication of a first collaboration activity performed on a first document by a first collaborator among a plurality of first collaborators associated with the first document and responsive to receiving the first indication, obtaining first activity information for the first document comprising the first collaborative activity and one or more second collaborative activities performed on the first document. The method and system determine a lifecycle stage of the first document, analyze the first activity information and the lifecycle stage of the first document to identify one or more second collaborators among the plurality of first collaborators associated with the first document to notify of the first collaborative activity, and provide for displaying the first collaboration activity to the one or more second collaborators.

Notifications regarding updates to collaborative content

A method and system for identifying potential collaborators for a document may include determining a lifecycle stage of a document, determining a subject matter of the document based at least in part on content of the document. The method and system identify one or more potential collaborators to contribute to the document based at least in part on the subject matter of the document, a lifecycle stage of the document, or collaborator-specific information associated with each of the one or more potential collaborators. The method and system may also include providing data relating to the one or more potential collaborators for display.

Intelligently identifying collaborators for a document

A file usage recorder program that is executed on a processor is disclosed. The file usage recorder program may be configured to determine usage data for a plurality of files stored in a file system. The usage data may include, for each file, a plurality of usage instances by one or more users. The file usage recorder program may further be configured to classify each of the plurality of files as being in one of a plurality of predetermined usage states, based on the determined usage data. The file usage recorder program may further be configured to generate a usage index indicating the usage state of each of the plurality of files, and output the usage index for use by a software program.

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