Google Inc.

Luiz Do Amaral De Franca Pereira Filho

Kevin Winter

Kevin Markman

Yunchi Luo

Jacob Robert Voytko

Gregory George Galante

Olga Sergeyevna Saviano

Fil Zembowicz

Igor Kopylov

Behnoosh Hariri

Haluk Burcin Tunali

Etan Bukiet

Samuel Benjamin Messing

Steven Joseph Saviano

Victoria Hsiao-tsung Chou Fritz

Venkat Ganesan

Matthew Jay Isison

Norbert Zsolt Kenderesi

Mathieu Turcotte

Leeran Raphaely

Micah Lemonik

Vance Julius Vagell

Ian Gunn

Edgard Lindner

Kishore A Papineni

Janani R Ravi

Jeffrey De Blanc Palm

Andrea Zvinakis

Lindsay Grace Hall

Peter James Solderitsch

Matthew Albright

Shruti Gupta

Isaac Quinn Shum

Shyam Parikkal Krishnamurthy

Thomas John Schirripa

Stephen Alexander Garcia-Wright

Augustin O Venezuela, Iii

Lily Shu-Yi Xia

Anmol Gulati

Jayakumar Hoskere Gireesha

Systems and methods are disclosed for sharing a unified undo/redo stack between multiple applications. A method determining that a host application receives an action regarding a document, adding the action to a unified stack that is associated with undo commands and is shared between the host application and a secondary application, receiving an undo command from the host application or the secondary application, and retrieving the undo command from the unified stack to cause the action to be undone in the host application and the secondary application.

Systems and methods for providing a collaborative document environment

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for modifying suggestion metadata in an electronic document. A copy request is received to copy a portion of the electronic document. The portion of the electronic document includes a suggestion having metadata that indicates the suggestion was made by a first user. The copy request is received from a second user. A paste request to paste the copied portion is received from the second user. Responsive to determining to modify the metadata of the suggestion, the indication that the first suggestion was made by the first user is replaced with an indication that the first suggestion was made by the second user.

Systems and methods for copying and pasting suggestion metadata

Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a summary of suggested changes made to an electronic document. A suggested change is iteratively selected from a first list of suggested changes. A second list of modified suggested changes is generated by processing each selected suggested change in the first list of suggested changes. The processing comprises marking the selected suggested change for including or excluding the summary. If the selected suggested change is marked for including the summary, the processing further comprises at least one of combining the selected suggested change with a previously processed suggested change to form one of the modified suggested changes for including in the second list, and truncating the selected suggested change to form one of the modified suggested changes for including in the second list. The second list of modified suggested changes is provided as the summary of suggested changes.

The technology herein involves accessing content of an electronic document and a shared layout for the electronic document, wherein the shared layout provides a layout for user devices having different dimensions of display areas; rendering the content of the electronic document onto a primary rendering surface and a secondary rendering surface, wherein the primary rendering surface is associated with a native platform of a user device and the secondary rendering surface is associated with the shared layout of a server; applying operation commands to modify the primary rendering surface, the operation commands resulting from a user interaction with the electronic document; merging the operation commands into a merged operation call; and invoking the merged operation call to modify the secondary rendering surface, wherein the merged operation call reduces a number of operation calls that modify the secondary rendering surface and is shared with the server to modify the shared layout.

Interactively presenting a visible portion of a rendering surface on a user device

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for modifying suggestion metadata in an electronic document. A copy request is received to copy a portion of the electronic document. The portion of the electronic document includes a first suggestion having metadata that indicates the suggestion was made by a first user. The copy request is received from a second user. A paste request to paste the copied portion is received from the second user. The metadata of the suggestion is modified based on the paste request to obtain modified metadata.

Systems and methods disclosed herein provide a method that includes obtaining, at a user device from a remote storage server, content relating to an electronic document, and rendering the content of the electronic document onto a first virtual rendering surface. The method further includes maintaining a second virtual rendering surface that stores a current state of the first virtual rendering surface. The method further includes obtaining an operation command relating to the electronic document, and retrieving first state information of the first virtual rendering surface and second state information of the second virtual rendering surface. The method further includes applying the operation command to the rendered content of the electronic document on the first virtual rendering surface, and updating at least one of the first state information or the second state information based on a type of the operation command.

Systems and methods are described to notify an author that suggested content is available. An author-assistance tool is instantiated with a document processor to perform research to suggest content for a document being edited at the document processor. A user interaction relating to a document is received via the document processor, and the author-assistance tool generates suggested content for the document when the author has intent for content suggestion or the document has a document type that is on a list of document types for which a content suggestion should be made. The author-assistance tool then determines that the suggested content meets a pre-determined quality threshold, and generates, via the user interface of the document processor, a notification to the author that the suggested content is available.

Systems and methods for notifying an author of contextual suggested content

A plurality of objects associated with respective footnote reference information within a document are generated. An overflow object associated with overflow footnote reference information corresponding to a previous footnote marker appearing on a previous page is invoked to lay out the overflow footnote reference information, generating overflow layout data. A current page object associated with current page footnote reference information that corresponds to a current page footnote marker appearing on the page is invoked to lay out the current page footnote reference information, generating current page footnote reference information layout data, if an available footnote height is sufficient to lay out the current page footnote reference information. The page is displayed based on the overflow layout data and the current page footnote reference information layout data.

System and method for displaying a document containing footnotes

A document editor may manage suggested edits in a collaborative document. The document editor may instantiate a document model associated with the collaborative document. When a first editing suggestion is received for the collaborative document, a first suggestion command is associated with the first editing suggestion based on a type of the first editing suggestion and a type of the document model. The document editor may apply the first suggestion command on the document model to present the first editing suggestion within the collaborative document. When an acceptance indication for the first editing suggestion is received, the document model can be updated with the first suggestion command in response to the received acceptance indication.

Systems and methods for managing suggested edits in a collaborative document editing environment

Systems and methods disclosed herein provide a method of consistently presenting a visible portion of a rendering surface on multiple user devices. The method includes obtaining, at a user device from a remote storage server, content relating to an electronic document stored on the remote storage server, and then determining layout parameters of the content. The layout parameters define a consistent layout on a virtual rendering surface for the content of the electronic document across multiple user devices having different dimensions of display areas. The method further includes obtaining, via a user interface at the user device, a user indication indicative of a visible portion of the electronic document to be displayed via the user interface. The method further includes determining rendering parameters to render the visible portion at the user interface, and rendering the visible portion via the user interface on the user device.

Systems and methods for interactively presenting a visible portion of a rendering surface on a user device

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for resolving a change to a table. A processing circuitry receives, from a user in a collaborative document editing environment, the change to the table, wherein the change comprises an expansion of a first cell in the table. A first state of the first cell is identified, wherein the state is indicative of a number of columns and a number of rows over which the first cell spans, and at least one of the number of columns and the number of rows is greater than one. A second state of a second cell that is adjacent to the first cell is identified, and the processing circuitry selects whether to allow the expansion of the first cell based on the second state of the second cell.

Merging table cells via expansion in a collaborative document having row span and column span properties

A computer-implemented collaborative editing method includes receiving input from a user of a browser-based document editing application on a document displayed by the application; identifying a current location in the document for a cursor of a first user executing the application; receiving from a central server system data that reflects changes made to the document by one or more users other than the first user and current positions in the document of cursors for the one or more other user; updating a document model stored on a computing device that is executing the browser-based application and rendering at least a portion of the model to the browser; and rendering the current positions of the cursors for the one or more other users to the browser.

Collaborative cursors in a hosted word processor

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Luiz Do Amaral De Franca Pereira Filho