Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Julia Nancy Foran

Shiraz Jitendra Cupala

Kevin D Morrison

Eric Jonathan Hull

Szymon Madejczyk

James Paul Kardos

Lan Ye

Jaya Matthew

Dipak Sarjerao Pawar

Charlie Ricafort Chung

Shivaram Prabhakar

Victoria Elizabeth Milton

Montine Andrea Rummel

Mirela Dal Col Silva Correa

Hemant Sharma

Roma Ajit Shah

Haebin Seo

Traditionally, meetings are widely utilized in business and personal communications, whether in-person and/or virtual. Organizing such meetings typically involves multiple exchanges of content and messages between users before, during, and after the meeting. In some cases, meetings may occur impromptu and may result in inefficient and unproductive collaboration. A collaboration object configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate before, during, and after a meeting is provided. In aspects, the collaboration object links content generated before, during, and after the meeting in a single location and provides functionality for concurrent multi-user interaction and synchronization of the content across applications. The collaboration object may be available from a variety of application platforms, enabling and persisting real-time editing and collaboration before, during and after the meeting.

Auto-generated object for impromptu collaboration

Object for pre- to post-meeting collaboration

A computing device includes a processor and associated memory. The processor is configured to execute a personal information management service stored in memory to send a first calendar entry for display on a calendar interface for a user. The first calendar entry is for a first account of the user of a first domain. The processor sends a second calendar entry for display on the calendar interface. The second calendar entry is for a calendar of a second account of the user of a second domain. The processor receives a request for an availability of the user from a requesting user having a third account of the first domain. In response to the request, the processor sends to the requesting user the first calendar entry including first calendar entry details, and the second calendar entry without second calendar entry details.

User availability in personal information management service

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Julia Nancy Foran