Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Noah Benjamin Edelstein

Raymond Edward Ozzie

George P Moromisato

Hai Liu

Hani Saliba

Abhay Vinayak Parasnis

Anthony Dean Andrews

William D Devlin

Marcin Sawicki

Akash Jeevan Sagar

Ethan Joseph Bernstein

Anne M Archambault

Jeffrey C Belt

Russell P Songco

Andrew Quinn

Eric S Schreiber

Aditya G Bhandarkar

Eric Randall Sexauer

Steven James Rayson

Maithreyi Lakshmi Ratan

Todd R Manion

Raymond Edward Endres

Alan Aitken Ramaley

Thomas W Olsen

Lauren Nicole Antonoff

Ryan Yonghee Kim

Carl M Carter-Schwendler

Sean Erik McAteer

Suresh Tharamal

Heikki J Kanerva

Valerie D Serdy

Jeson Patel

Maithreya Lakshmi Ratan

Server-based collaboration is initiated by an email. When the user creates the email message with attachments, a collaboration website is provisioned. The collaboration website allows collaborations on the attached documents by the recipients of the message. The ease of collaboration with email and the advantages of the collaboration server are thus both available to the user.

Method to initiate server based collaboration on e-mail attachments

A server is implemented with a modified file open action, which, when a user performs the modified open, initially opens a file without locking the file. When a user indicates (either explicitly or implicitly) that the user is attempting to or intending to open the file, the file can then be locked for editing. In this way, the default action when a user requests a file is to open the file without denying other users access to the file. Then, when the user indicates that editing should occur, the lock for the file is obtained.

Method to delay locking of server files on edit

Method to initiate server based collaboration on E-mail attachments

An apparatus and method provide a companion application via a companion application corresponding to a host window provided by a host application, the companion window providing information or metadata descriptive of data in the host window. The host application and companion applications may be separate applications such that the host application is unaware of the companion application. The companion application may hook into the host application (e.g., via an application programming interface) and may monitor host application activities and/or data. Based on identification of data or events in the host application, the companion application may obtain information characterizing or providing a context for data provided by the host application. The host window and companion window may be attached to each other, the host window providing host application data and the companion window providing data describing the host application data.

Live companion user interface

Data files, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be accessed at a device that collaborates in a mesh. The mesh may include any number or type of devices that collaborate in a network. Data, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be stored within a core object that may be shared over the mesh. Information in the core object may be identified with a corresponding user such that a user may use any collaborating device in the mesh to access the information. In one example, the information is stored remotely from a device used to access the information. A remote source may store the desired information or may determine the storage location of the desired information in the mesh and may further provide the desired information to a corresponding user.

Mesh-managing data across a distributed set of devices

Systems and methods of providing synchronization of providing a device mesh and a virtual computing device are disclosed herein. A selection of a plurality of computer devices, such as PDAs, cellphone, laptops, and the like, can be received from a user. The data at the virtual computing device and the plurality of devices can be synchronized. Access to all applications available in each computing device in the plurality of computing devices can be provided at the virtual computing device. Access to all data available in each computing device in the plurality of computing devices can be provided at the virtual computing device. Access to the virtual computing device can be provided via a data network.

Personal computing environment with virtual computing device

Systems, methods, and user interfaces for gathering and using awareness information with common awareness functionality accessible to multiple applications are disclosed. Such systems, methods, and user interfaces may aggregate awareness information from multiple sources and provide awareness data and other derived information to multiple destinations. In some implementations, such systems and methods may provide additional functionality related to awareness information, such as common user interfaces that display awareness information or mechanisms for determining the relevance of particular pieces of awareness information.

Gathering and using awareness information

Enabling a user interface (UI) for management of a host device from a client device. A connection is established between the host device and the client device via a web portal. The host device and the client device are without a host management software installed thereon. A content window is displayed on the client device in response to the established connection with the host device. A client status display area is displayed on the client device indicating at least a connection status with the host device. A corresponding host status display area is displayed on the host device indicating a connection status with the client device. The displayed client status display area specifically identifies the client device and defines client parameters for receiving messages during management of the host device. The displayed host status display area specifically identifies the host device and defines host parameters for receiving messages during interaction with the client device.

Remote device communication platform user interface

A server file replication technique is implemented with three local copies of a replicated file. First, a shadow file is a copy of the last known good version of the file on the server. Second, a local copy is the user's working copy. Whatever changes the user has made to the file are stored in the local copy. Third, a rollback file is a copy made of the local copy if the local copy changes (for example, when conflicts are resolved or the server version is copied to the local copy.) Different states exist, based on whether these copies contain differences from each other and from the server version, and based on the user's use of the document. These states guide what is done to maintain the local copies and whether conflict resolution is required.

Method for managing multiple file states for replicated files

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Noah Benjamin Edelstein