Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sudarshan Sundar

Benjamin Gustav Wilde

Aleksandr Polyakov

Douglas Lane Milvaney

Patrick Michael Gan

Joan Catharine Weaver

Graham Baker

Nikhil Nathwani

Samantha N Powers

Richard Malcolm Banks

Yi Zheng

Ransom Lloyd Richardson

Manoj Sharma

Gregory Alan Howard

Paul Anthony Scudieri

Lyndsy Marie Stopa

Matthew Stephen Howard

Jason Peter Campoli

Jacob Lee Sanchez

Zeyu Wu

A system and method for identifying relevant content from other documents and presenting candidate documents/content in a document authoring application is described. A computer-implemented method includes performing an analysis of text of a document being authored by a user with a document authoring application, searching a document library for content elements and documents based on the analysis of the text, identifying candidate documents and candidate content based on the searching, presenting a list of candidate documents or candidate content with the document authoring application, receiving a selection of a candidate document or candidate content from the list in the document authoring application, and including an instance of the selected candidate document or candidate content in the document.

Content element recommendation system

To manage complexity related to messages and comments about collaboratively edited electronic documents, an electronic document has associated activity data and comment data, where a type of activity data includes messages among users. Message data is stored in a stream of activity data in a format that is accessible both to communication applications outside of the electronic document, and to end user applications for editing the electronic document. The message data can include a document identifier, a user identifier for a sender and/or a receiver, and content of the message. A communication application, given a user identifier, can access document messages for that user, from a single electronic document or over multiple electronic documents. Further, the communication application can be notified when new document messages related to a user identifier are added to one or more electronic documents. Additionally, the end user application, given a document identifier, can access document messages associated with that document identifier for inclusion in the activity data for the document.

Managing messages between users for collaborative editing of electronic documents

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Sudarshan Sundar