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A cloud service stores and aggregates content that is obtained from different content sources using different protocols. For example, the content may include electronic messages, calendar information, contacts, social network content, feed data, search results, and the like. The cloud service aggregates content for each user based on the user's configuration settings. The cloud service may perform processing on the aggregated content before it is delivered and displayed to the user on the client device. For example, one or more views may be generated and stored by the cloud service before the view is requested from the client. Changes made to the aggregated content on the client may be synchronized with the content source. Searches may be made across all or a portion of the different content sources that are aggregated for a user.

Aggregating content from different content sources at a cloud service

An e-mail system is running with a first synchronization mechanism synchronizing first application data between a service and a client computing system. A second synchronization mechanism synchronizes second application data between the service and the client computing system, using a second protocol. When a given proportion of the application data has been synchronized by the second synchronization mechanism, the application is controlled to use the second application data synchronized according to the second protocol.

Switching synchronization systems for synchronizing server/client data

Real time collaboration is enabled by providing a notification to users attempting access to an item, such as a document or a resource, that another user has currently access to the item. The users may be notified automatically when the other user is done accessing the item or periodically as the item is being accessed by the other user. The notification(s) may also include a summary or complete list of changes such that any user accessing the item after the other user has the latest version.

In browser real time collaboration lists and forms

Online application state information is automatically saved for a user interacting with the application content. Saved states are presented to the user upon the user's return to the application. Upon the user's selection of a state, the user is presented with the online application populated with state information from prior interaction.

Providing state service for online application users

An XML digital signature standard is applied to an XML document to sign it. The XML digital signature is an XML fragment with a specified schema that includes (a) data to describe how the signature should be calculated (e.g., digest methods, filters, and data sources) and (b) actual signature data (e.g., digests and signature values). The data describing how the signature should be calculated (i.e., the 'group (a)' data) is placed inside an XML digital signature template, which is then used (e.g., by an API (application programming interface)) to create the actual digital signature containing the 'group (b)' data.

Template-driven XML digital signature

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