Google Inc.

Victoria Hsiao-tsung Chou Fritz

Michael Jeffrey Procopio

Phillip Neal Sharp

Eric Benson Schoeffler

Brian Lewis Cairns

Steven Joseph Saviano

Jeffrey De Blanc Palm

Jeff Scott Harris

Lindsay Grace Hall

Sarah Shuilen Wu

Michael Owen Thomas

Gregory George Galante

Luiz Do Amaral De Franca Pereira Filho

Samuel Benjamin Messing

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for caching structural elements of electronic documents. A plurality of indices is stored in a data store. The plurality of indices corresponds to locations within an electronic document of portions of a stylized sub-element. A mutation to the electronic document is received and it is determined that the mutation pertains to a style of the stylized sub-element. Based on the mutation and the plurality of indices, the stylized sub-element is updated, and the portions of the updated stylized sub-element are caused to be displayed at a user device using a different style.

Systems and methods for caching structural elements of electronic documents

A drafting area of a user interface for a sender to compose an electronic communication and a field area of the user interface to receive user input that identifies a recipient of the electronic communication is provided. A user input of a resource locator of a file is received in the user interface. Responsive to receiving the user input of the resource locator of the file in the user interface, a notification area that identifies, for the sender, a plurality of options to modify access rights of the recipient for the file identified in the electronic communication is presented in the user interface. The access rights of the recipient are allowed to be modified by the sender who is not an administrator or an owner of an access control list associated with the file.

Correcting access rights of files in electronic communications

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for caching structural elements of electronic documents. A plurality of indices is stored in a database. The plurality of indices corresponds to locations within an electronic document of portions of a structural element. A mutation to the electronic document is received. Based on the plurality of indices, it is determined that the mutation modifies the structural element. Based on the determination, the structural element is updated. The updated structural element is displayed at a user device.

A method and system is disclosed that provides a drafting area of a user interface for a sender to compose an electronic communication and a field area of the user interface to receive user input that identifies a recipient of the electronic communication. The method and system receive a user input of a resource locator of a file in the user interface. Responsive to receiving the user input of the resource locator of the file in the user interface, the method and system present, in the user interface, a notification area that identifies, for the sender, a plurality of options to modify access rights of the recipient to the file identified in the electronic communication, wherein the access rights of the recipient are allowed to be modified by the sender who is not an administrator or an owner of an access control list associated with the file.

Methods and systems for providing a third party application with access to files stored on a server are disclosed. A method may include receiving, from a browser at a client device, a request for a file stored on the server, wherein the request is received via a web page provided by the third party application and rendered by the browser, the web page comprising an embedded user interface (UI) component associated with the server to access the file stored on the server, wherein the request includes a document identifier associated with the file, an application identifier of the third-party application, and an origin identifier, wherein the origin identifier is associated with the web page provided by the third party application and rendered by the browser. The method may further include authenticating the application identifier at the server, wherein authenticating the application identifier comprises determining whether the application identifier references a valid application, and based on the document identifier, the authenticated application identifier and the origin identifier, granting access to the file for the third party application via the embedded UI component.

System and method for embedding first party widgets in third-party applications

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for resolving a change to a table. A processing circuitry receives, from a user in a collaborative document editing environment, the change to the table, wherein the change comprises an expansion of a first cell in the table. A first state of the first cell is identified, wherein the state is indicative of a number of columns and a number of rows over which the first cell spans, and at least one of the number of columns and the number of rows is greater than one. A second state of a second cell that is adjacent to the first cell is identified, and the processing circuitry selects whether to allow the expansion of the first cell based on the second state of the second cell.

Merging table cells via expansion in a collaborative document having row span and column span properties

Systems and methods may include updating subsets of elements of electronic documents. Associations of types of mutations, mutation locations, and subsets to update are stored in a database. A mutation to the element is received, and a type and location of the mutation are determined. Based on a stored association, a subset of the element is determined. The determined subset is associated with the determined type and determined location. The element is updated by updating the subset, and the updated element is displayed on a user device.

Systems and methods for updating subsets of elements of electronic documents

A method for modifying access rights to electronically stored files linked in a draft electronic communication stored at a client device includes receiving, at a server from the client device, information relating to a plurality of recipients of the draft electronic communication, information relating to a sender of the draft electronic communication, and a first link, where the first link represents a first file. The method further includes determining, at the server, for the sender and for each recipient in the plurality of recipients, the access rights to the first file. The method further includes generating, at the server, a plurality of options for the sender to modify the access rights for the plurality of recipients, where the plurality of options is based on the access rights to the first file, and sending the plurality of options from the server to the client device.

Methods and systems provide embeddable user interface widgets to third-party applications so that the widgets can be securely embedded in, and securely used from within, the third-party applications. An embeddable widget may be authorized to access a first-party cloud storage system from a third-party application based on the cloud storage system authenticating a request received from the widget. The authentication may be based on an application identifier, an origin identifier, and/or one or more document identifiers received from the third-party application through the embedded widget. The disclosed methods and systems may significantly mitigate security concerns caused by embedding software in third-party sites, such as clickjacking.

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Victoria Hsiao-tsung Chou Fritz