Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sneha Jayaprakash

Harold S Gomez

Derik Bjorn Stenerson

Michael M Santos

Robin Emily Wakefield

Nicholas Michael Simons

Sophia Isabel Vennix

Yong Zhang

Michael Augustine Tavis

Daniel John Niezgocki Chattan

Apurv Suman

Kathleen Anna Cachel

Dheeraj Agarwal

Alyssa Nelson

Zeguang Wu

A system for selectively rendering highlights in a working document. The system includes a user interface, a memory for storing executable program code, and one or more electronic processors. The electronic processors are functionally coupled to the memory and the user interface. The electronic processors are configured to receive a first highlight operation at a highlight manager associated with a first highlight via the user interface. The electronic processors are further configured to transmit the received first highlight operation to a highlight actor, update a document object model associated with the working document based on the received first highlight operation, and render the first highlight on the working document using a first color based on the received first highlight operation.

Differentiating in-canvas markups of document-anchored content

Described herein is a system and method for displaying annotation(s) of an electronic document. User input to review (e.g., scroll) the electronic document is received, until a selected portion of the electronic document is displayed within a viewport pane of a display. In response to the review input, annotation(s) (e.g., comment(s), comment thread(s), annotation thread(s)) anchored within the selected portion of the electronic document displayed within the viewport pane are identified. Which annotation of the annotation(s) to visually distinguish for a focus of the user is determined. The identified annotation(s) are displayed in an annotation pane, with the determined annotation visually distinguished (highlighted) for the focus of the user. In some embodiments, the anchor associated with the determined annotation is also visually distinguished to provide a contextual link to the user and/or hint(s) that provided a visual signal of annotation(s) associated with an anchor on a particular line are displayed.

Top-align comments: just-in-time highlights and automatic scrolling

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Sneha Jayaprakash