Google Inc.

Timothy Vis

Michael Jeffrey Procopio

Sandor Dornbush

Michael Colagrosso

Jesse Sterr

A method of notifying a user of a cloud-based content management platform of a comment made in a file associated with a user account of the user includes identifying a subset of files with comments to be of interest to a user of cloud-based content management platform, and providing a graphical user interface (GUI) of the cloud-based content management platform for presentation to the user, the GUI identifying the subset of files and, for each identified file, a respective selected comment included in the identified file, and a GUI element allowing the user to request that the identified file be opened for editing.

Intelligent document notifications based on user comments

A method of notifying a user of a cloud-based content management platform of a comment made in a document associated with the user includes determining a set of comments associated with documents to which the user has access via the cloud-based content management platform, the set of comments including one or more comments added by other users to each document within a last predetermined time period, selecting one or more comments from the set of comments for notification to the user, the selecting being based at least on interactions of the user with a comment thread associated with each comment from the set of comments and characteristics of the comment thread, wherein a comment thread is a group of a plurality of comments comprising a first comment and a second comment added in reply to the first comment, determining one or more documents associated with the one or more selected comments, and providing a graphical user interface (GUI) of a cloud storage of the user hosted by the cloud-based content management platform for presentation to the user, the GUI identifying the one or more documents and, for each identified document, a respective selected comment associated with the identified document.

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Timothy Vis