Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Omeed Chandra

March Rogers

Joshua Baber

Anthony Neil Dart

Jason Blackheart

Ginger Elizabeth Fang

Arianne Taylor

Lisa Carolyn Cherian

Paul Ronald Ray

Daniel Robert Amirault

Sanyam Sharma

Techniques to control notifications for a collaboration platform. Content items being stored in the collaboration platform are shared amongst devices coupled to the collaboration platform. To determine whether to subscribe to notifications corresponding to a content item, a notification component of the collaboration platform examines the content item for characteristics of an indirect relationship between the shared content item and a user of a device of the devices. If the indirect relationship exists and warrants a subscription to the notifications, the notification component stores subscription data for the content item and in response to an occurrence of a subscribed activity, the notification component communicates a notification message to the user's device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to control notifications for content items in a collaboration platform

Technology is disclosed herein that enhances collaboration notifications. In various implementations, a notification queue is maintained for internal notifications that are generated as editing events that occur in relation to a shared document. The notification queue is periodically queried to determine which of the notifications qualify at a given time to be communicated externally to a group of users. An individual notification is communicated when only a single internal notification qualifies. But when multiple internal notifications are present that qualify, then a group notification is sent. Thus, users are presented with fewer notifications than otherwise, improving the user experience and conserving communication and computing resources.

Enhanced notification of editing events in shared documents

Techniques to automatically generate bookmarks for media files are described. An apparatus may comprise a logic device arranged to execute a bookmark application. The logic device may comprise, for example, a processing system having a processor and memory. The bookmark application may comprise a media file component operative to manage a media file. The media file may store various types of multimedia content. The bookmark application may further comprise a media bookmark component operative to identify a media file to store media information, scan the media file for a bookmark indicator, automatically generate a bookmark for the media file based on the bookmark indicator, and present the bookmark on a user interface. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to automatically generate bookmarks for media files

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Share permissions and organization of content in an application with multiple levels of organizational hierarchy is provided. In some examples, an application (or a hosted service) may provide content generation and processing capability far different types of content. Content may be organized in hierarchical levels and users may be enabled to share different levels of content with other users, see the sharing status, define/manage sharing parameters for different levels and perform actions on shared content such as copying, moving, creating, editing, etc.

Share permissions and organization of content in an application with multiple levels of organizational hierarchy

Automatic isolation of screenshots from other captured content items stored in an electronic content repository is provided. When a screen capture is performed on an electronic device, such as a smartphone, screen resolution information for the capturing device is stored with the captured content item (e.g., screenshot). When a user subsequently desires to recall a given stored captured screenshot, the resolution associated with each stored content item may be used for isolating screenshots from other stored content items like photographs, text items, clip art, and the like by comparing the resolutions of any of the stored content items with a screen resolution of the user's device or with known screen resolutions of various devices that may be used for capturing screen images.

Automatic isolation and selection of screenshots from an electronic content repository

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