Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yusuke Bou

Rajesh Ramanathan

Michael Anthony Faoro

Yasuhiko Mori

Kristian L M Andaker

Taketoshi Yoshida

Ryogo Kanatani

Shohei Ono

Kenzaburo Tamaru

Christian Whitehead

Koichi Nakajima

Ryo Shigeta

Annotation methods and systems for supporting the annotation of documents in the format of a rendering engine are provided. The annotation system allows for the adding of annotations to documents, the displaying of annotations over content of the documents, and the displaying of annotations in an annotation pane. To provide annotation support for a document, the annotation system augments the document with elements including an element with annotation engine code and elements to support the collecting and displaying of annotations. When the rendering engine renders the document, it executes the annotation engine code to effect the collecting and displaying of the annotations.

Creating an annotation pane for a document by augmenting the document

A hierarchical address book for an organization is implemented where employees are represented by user objects and departments are represented by department objects. Computer-readable media include executable instructions for displaying and navigating the hierarchical address book. Computer-readable media also include executable instructions for ordering a list of recipients of an electronic mail message as a function of the seniority rating of an object in the hierarchical address book.

Integrated address book based on departmental hierarchy

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Yusuke Bou