Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Groove Networks, Incorporated

Michael Augustine Tavis

Harold S Gomez

Jack E Ozzie

Benjamin Gustav Wilde

Siddharth Rajendra Shah

Derik Bjorn Stenerson

Puneet Narula

Robin Emily Wakefield

Sophia Isabel Vennix

Nicholas Michael Simons

Daniel John Niezgocki Chattan

Sneha Jayaprakash

Kathleen Anna Cachel

Apurv Suman

Alexei Evdokimov

Dheeraj Agarwal

Robert Lomme

Described herein is a system and method for displaying annotation(s) of an electronic document. User input to review (e.g., scroll) the electronic document is received, until a selected portion of the electronic document is displayed within a viewport pane of a display. In response to the review input, annotation(s) (e.g., comment(s), comment thread(s), annotation thread(s)) anchored within the selected portion of the electronic document displayed within the viewport pane are identified. Which annotation of the annotation(s) to visually distinguish for a focus of the user is determined. The identified annotation(s) are displayed in an annotation pane, with the determined annotation visually distinguished (highlighted) for the focus of the user. In some embodiments, the anchor associated with the determined annotation is also visually distinguished to provide a contextual link to the user and/or hint(s) that provided a visual signal of annotation(s) associated with an anchor on a particular line are displayed.

Top-align comments: just-in-time highlights and automatic scrolling

A security trimming system disclosed herein uses intelligent caching of the security trimming information received from a security datastore. The security trimming system uses an access cache to store the security trimming information received from the access datastore together with other parameters associated with such security trimming information. Subsequently, in responding to a request for the security trimming information, the security trimming system uses the cached value of the security trimming information together with the other associated parameters to determine a response to the request from the content providers. In one implementation, if the other parameters associated with a particular security trimming information imply that the security trimming information in the cache is still valid, the cached security trimming information is used in the request response. Otherwise, a new request is sent to the security datastore for an updated value of the security trimming information.

Intelligent caching for security trimming

A component manager receives requests for component updates from a variety of sources, parses the requests and extracts URL information that identifies the location of a file containing the component resources. The component manager presents the URL to a download manager that asynchronously retrieves the component resources from the specified location and places the file in a staging area. Once the component resources have been downloaded, an install manager, also operating asynchronously from the component manager and the download manager, installs the component update.

Method and apparatus for managing software component downloads and updates

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