Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Po-Yan Tsang

Thomas Charles Underhill

Cynthia Dahl Wessling

Abraham Mathew

Heidi McAllister

John Zhongqi Wang

William Guthrie Morein

Nathaniel Stott

Charles Duze

Apeksha Godiyal

Hong Lin

Emil Cicos

Syed Mustafa Bilal

Raveendrnathan Loganathan

Sung Won Shin

Phillippe-Joseph Arida

Loic Henry-Greard

Mairead Therese Droney

A notebook component within a note-taking application is utilized as a centralized mechanism for recording notations and providing documentation related to a particular meeting. The meeting participants are provided with centralized access to the notebook component and thus are able to update the notebook record of the meeting collaboratively and in real time. In addition to user-driven updates, updates may also be generated on an automatic or semi-automatic basis. Updates may be made before, during or after the actual meeting. Updates may originate from an application data source outside of the note-taking application itself.

Notebook driven accumulation of meeting documentation and notations

Technologies are described herein for refreshing data-linked diagrams on a server computer and viewing and consuming the refreshed diagrams via a Web browser. A drawing program allows equations within a diagram definition to define how external data is utilized to modify the attributes of a diagram element. When the diagram is published to a server computer, the definition is converted to server-legible definition. A published diagram is generated that includes a diagram representation defined by the server-legible definition. Upon a request for the published diagram, the external data is refreshed and the diagram definition is updated. The equations are recalculated to generate new element attributes. The diagram representation is then updated with the new attributes and returned for display by a client Web browser. An interface provides exploration tools and a client API exposes methods for surfacing external data and annotating the diagram.

Web-based visualization, refresh, and consumption of data-linked diagrams

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