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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Ruth Kikin-Gil, Redmond, WA (US);
Patrick Davis, Redmond, WA (US);
Shikha Desai, Redmond, WA (US);
Seyit Yilmaz, Redmond, WA (US);
Wesley Hodgson, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Collaboration communication tools within a document editor are provided. An application such as a document authoring application displays a document and a communication panel adjacent to the document. The communication panel presents a conversation associated with the document. Communications and/or conversations associated with the documents may be obtained from different applications and aggregated to be presented in conjunction with the document. A new entry is detected for an insertion into the conversation associated with the document. The new entry is inserted into the conversation. An insertion of a section of the document into the conversation is also detected. The section of the document is tracked. The section of the document is displayed embedded into the conversation within the communication panel.