Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Simoune Rebekah Morena Valerio Lucas

Manoj Sharma

Douglas Lane Milvaney

Nathan D Kile, Jr

Manish Kumar Shukla

Patrick Michael Gan

Sugandha SudeshKumar Kapoor

Brian Daniel Meersma

Natalie Ann Mionis

Theo Lorrain-Hale

Orkhan Muradov

Cosmin Catrinescu

Daniel John Niezgocki Chattan

Matthew Stephen Howard

Vivek Mogalapalli

Nikhil Vilas Kulkarni

Andrew Boktor

Kori Michelle Loomis

Jyhyun Cho

A computing device for organizing a collaborative workspace for a user implements providing, using a display of the computing device, an interactive user interface associated with the collaborative workspace in which the user may work on a shared task in a coordinated fashion with other users; identifying, based on one or more factors, one or more activities specific to the user from within the collaborative workspace; assigning the identified one or more activities to a catch-up list associated with the user; displaying, within the interactive user interface, the catch-up list; detecting that at least one of the one or more activities has been addressed from within the collaborative workspace or the catch-up list; and updating, based on the detection, the collaborative workspace and the catch-up list.

Managing a collaborative workspace to identify relevant activities and present the relevant activities to a user

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for determining one or more relevant activities to surface for a user of one or more files hosted by a collaborative application. In one aspect, a set of collaborative activities that are applied by one or more users to one or more files hosted by the collaborative application may be captured. The set of collaborative activities may be analyzed in relation to the user of the one or more files hosted by the collaborative application. At least some activities in the set of collaborative activities may be identified as belonging to one or more relevance categories. A prioritization may be assigned to the at least some activities that belong to the one or more relevance categories.

Catch up heuristics for collaborative application environments

A method for generating a comment capsule for a content segment includes receiving the comment related to the content segment, receiving data associated with the comment, the data including at least one of an identifier for the content segment to which the comment relates, an identifier for a user generating the comment, and a time at which the comment was generated, generating display data for displaying the comment in a comment capsule, and transmitting the display data for displaying the comment capsule in a user interface screen associated with the content segment. The comment capsule is displayed on the user interface screen inline with the content segment, and an appearance of the comment capsule is dynamically changeable based on at least one of a number of comments received for the content segment, a size of the content segment, and a read status of the comment.

Method and system of managing and displaying comments

The present disclosure is directed to automated notification generation, where a generated notification comprises a live representation of a content update that is linked and synchronized with a distributed collaborative canvas (or other source content) comprising the content portion which is being updated. A non-limiting example of a content update is a message notification, such as an at-mention (@mention), that is included inline within a content portion. Other triggers for automated notification generation are also described. Generation of an exemplary notification comprises a contextual relevance analysis that not only selects, for a recipient of the message notification, a specific host application/service endpoint to present the notification in but also determines how/what specific content to present inline within the selected host application/service endpoint. The notification is automatically generated and provided to a selected host application/service endpoint for rendering of the notification inline with content of the host application/service endpoint.

Automated notification of content update providing live representation of content inline through host service endpoint(s)

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