Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kristian Elsebø

Jon Meling

Dag Steinnes Eidesen

Vegar Pettersen

Bernt Ivar Olsen

Erlend Jensen

Bjørn Elvheim

Terje Johansen

Håkon Bergland Brugård

Audun Østrem Nordal

Børge Lanes

The disclosed technology is generally directed to the retention of online files. An indication that a communication from a first user to a second user includes a reference to an online document is received. Responsive to the indication, via a first processor, a first request for metadata associated with the online document is sent. The first request is based on permissions associated with the second user. A signal is communicated to a second processor such that: if the first request is granted the signal includes the metadata, else the signal includes the reference to the first online document. Via the second processor, responsive to determining that the signal does not include the metadata, a second request for the metadata is made such that the second request has elevated permissions relative to the first request. Via the second processor, the online document is caused to be marked for retention.

Shared item file retention

Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for automatically assisting conversations using a graph database. In order to minimize misunderstanding of words and phrases used by participants during a conversation, phrases from the conversation may be received by conversation assistance application as the conversation takes place. Entities may be extracted from the phrase based on natural language recognition according to a domain context of the participant being assisted. One or more tags may be looked up from a graph database, and may be provided to the participant as a list of hashtags related to the conversation. Links to documents may be extracted based on the tags for the participant for viewing during the conversation.

Automatically assisting conversations using graph database

Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for electronic communication and file reference association. In an example, a file reference may refer to file content stored by a file service. The file reference may be used to share the file content in an electronic communication among a plurality of users. The file reference may be identified within the electronic communication, and may be used to generate a file node. The file node may store information relating to the file content and/or file reference. A message node associated with the electronic communication may be created, which may be associated with the file node. The file node may later be used to identify electronic communications relating to the file reference. Thus, electronic communications relating to the file reference may be accessible to a user using the file reference or by searching, rather than manually identifying related electronic communications.

Electronic communication and file reference association

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for recommending content are presented. An electronic communication between a plurality of members of a common entity may be received. A link to web content in the electronic communication may be identified. A number of instances that the link has been electronically shared with members of the common entity may be determined. A determination may be made as to whether a content propagation threshold has been exceeded based on electronic sharing of the link amongst members of the common entity. The link may be provided for propagation upon determining that the content propagation threshold has been exceeded.

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Kristian Elsebø