Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Raj B Merchant

Brandon V Taylor

Hani Saliba

Brian M Jones

Marcin Sawicki

Christopher Hugh Pratley

Shiraz Jitendra Cupala

Ethan Joseph Bernstein

Sean Olin Blagsvedt

Hai Liu

Lauren Nicole Antonoff

Jeffrey J Johnson

Dustin G Friesenhahn

Mingquan Xue

Dragos Barac

Steven J Sinofsky

Mitika Gupta

Anne Marie Renée Archambault

Michael Anthony Rigler

Michael B Christiansen

Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a user interface. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a request to initiate an application program configured to generate a data file. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include displaying, by the initiated application program, a property panel in response to the request. The property panel may be configured to receive meta-data to be associated with the data file generated by the application program. Also, the property panel may be configured to provide the only place to receive the meta-data by the application program. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods may include receiving the meta-data in the property panel.

Methods and systems for providing a customized user interface for viewing and editing meta-data

Systems and methods are disclosed for incorporating meta-data in document content. The disclosed systems and methods may include initiating an application program configured to generate a document. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include displaying, by the initiated application program, a property panel. The property panel may be configured to receive meta-data to be associated with the document generated by the application program. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods may include receiving the meta-data in the property panel and copying the meta-data from the property panel to the document content.

Methods and systems for incorporating meta-data in document content

Mapping a server file to a corresponding locally stored copy of a server file and redirecting an application to a server file or to a corresponding local copy of the server file are provided for opening a most up-to-date and/or most reliable version of the desired file.

Redirection to local copies of server-based files

Methods, systems, and apparatus are provided for viewing and managing collaboration data from within the context of a shared electronic document. A document editing pane is displayed for editing the shared document. In conjunction with the document editing pane, a collaboration pane is displayed for displaying the collaboration data. Through the collaboration pane, collaboration data such as the identities of one or more collaborators, task, documents, links and other information may be displayed. Actions may also be performed with respect to any aspect of the collaboration data through the collaboration pane.

Method and apparatus for viewing and managing collaboration data from within the context of a shared document

Systems and methods are disclosed for creating document schema. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving schema corresponding to meta-data associated with a document, storing the schema in the document, and storing the meta-data in the document. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include storing the schema at a first location. The schema stored at the first location may be changeable independent of the schema stored in the document. In addition, the disclosed systems and methods may include creating a first hash of the schema stored in the document and storing the first hash in the document. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods may include determining that the schema stored at the first location has changed if a second hash of the schema stored at the first location is different from the first hash of the schema stored in the document.

Methods and systems for creating document schema

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Raj B Merchant