Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Nathan Fink

Dustin G Friesenhahn

Maura FitzGerald

Nithya Ramkumar

Ethan Gur-esh

Venkatesh Veeraraghavan

William James Griffin

George Perantatos

Lin Huang

Targo Tennisberg

Daniel Ron Simon

Josh D Benaloh

Matthew W Thomlinson

Patrick Miller

Sterling John Crockett

Bryant Fong

Boxin Li

Daniel E Kogan

Michael Howard

Anthony Lawrence Jackson

Dean Justus

Matthew Labarge

Ryan Robert Stocker

Paula A Wing

Lincoln DeMaris

Bruce Arville Jones

Mike Arcuri

Christopher Edward White

Ethan D Lexington

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for creating and managing persistent document collections. A data store is used for storing one or more persistent document collections. A content management application is used for managing documents for users, for creating one or more persistent document collections of a sub-set of the documents upon user request, and for storing the one or more persistent document collections in the data store. Users can create one or more persistent document collections from a sub-set of the documents. Users can also modify the one or more persistent document collections. A requested portion of one or more persistent document collections can be output upon request from an external application so that the external application can download one or more of the documents that are represented by the persistent document collection for further modification by the user.

Techniques for managing persistent document collections

Document scheduling architecture for automatic publication and removal from publication of a document. A document can be developed, approved, and scheduled for automatic viewing and removal from viewing using start data and end data that are represented as job definitions. Based on a triggering event, the jobs are selected and executed to effect document publication. The document is automatically published making it viewable by all users who have suitable permission to do so. The architecture provides a pluggable override scheduling, and hence, extensible scheduling solution for third-party entities to provide alternative approval and/or scheduling behavior. Other attributes include reporting to a user the status of a document, execution of a policy in combination with the document publication such that the policy overrides selected attributes of the publication state, and a management filter process wherein the document can be reviewed independently by another individual for veto of publication if desired.

Managing document publication using time-driven job scheduling

A fallback query mechanism that serves as a way to recover from query conditions (or criteria) that break due to excessively large result sets relative to a preset threshold. The fallback query mechanism detects when a query has failed to execute because the query requested more items from the database (or list) than allowed by the threshold, rewrites the query to examine no more than the threshold number of most recently created items that match one of the indexed filter criteria specified in a view, and then applies one or more of the other filter criteria. The mechanism then reruns the query and displays the results to the user.

Exploiting conditions to optimize expensive database queries

The present invention provides a system and method for targeting content to audiences. The audience is defined by rules that may be based on properties as well as organizational structure associated with the users. Each of the rules is compiled to determine the group of members belonging to the rule. Logical operators are then applied to the groups to determine the audience membership. Compiling the rules enhances performance as the rules do not have to be run each time. Instead, a simple check against the rules results is performed. The rules making up the audience may be compiled at predetermined times in order to keep the audience up-to-date. Audiences are then selected and tagged to content so that the content may be viewed by the selected audiences.

Content targeting with audiences

A system for providing a client's credentials to a computer program comprises a database remote from the client and a single signon server module. The single signon server module can receive a request for the client's credentials from the computer program, determine whether the client's credentials are stored in the database, and send the client's credentials from the database to the computer program in response to a determination that the client's credentials are stored in the database. The single signon server module can store the client's credentials in the database in response to a determination that the client's credentials are not stored in the database. The single signon server module can encrypt the client's credentials prior to storing the client's credentials in the database and can decrypt the client's credentials prior to sending the client's credentials to the computer program.

System and method for providing program credentials

Systems and methods for transforming a document to a web page can include a mapping module programmed to map document styles of a document to styles of a web page. The system can also include a conversion module programmed to convert contents of the document into hypertext markup language based on the map of the mapping module, and a rendering module programmed to render the web page based on the hypertext markup language. A method can include mapping document styles in a document to styles of a web page, converting contents of the document into hypertext markup language based on the mapping, and rendering the web page based on the hypertext markup language.

Systems and methods for converting a formatted document to a web page

Methods, systems and computer-readable media are provided for organizing links on a web page via drag and drop operations. Single web page links or groups of web page links may be dragged from one location on a web page to another location on a web page or to another group of links on the web page. Links may also be dragged from a first web page or first client application document and may be dropped to a second web page on a same or separate web browsing application.

Organizing elements on a web page via drag and drop operations

A system and method is provided for personal sites. The personal sites are associated with a single Uniform Resource Locator (URL). A personal site may contain information that is useful to both the web page owner and other groups of users. According to one aspect of the present invention, the personal site may have two or more views instead of one: one homepage for the web page owner and other homepages directed at other specific users. The present invention allows a web page owner to control access to multiple web pages from a single URL, thereby allowing different groups to have different views of the owner's content. In one embodiment, a web server redirects users to different web pages by analyzing identifiers associated with each web page query.

Accessing multiple web pages from a single URL

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