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Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 30, 2018
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

John Lincoln Demaris, Seattle, WA (US);

Christopher F. McNulty, Bothell, WA (US);

Kerem Yuceturk, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 16/178 (2019.01); G06F 16/176 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/176 (2019.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 16/168 (2019.01); G06F 16/178 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01);
Abstract

A system and method for management of remote metadata-based activities while accessing electronic content via a local application. The system is configured to receive a user input that triggers a signal for communicating with a remote server. The remote server can provide options to the client system that are related to or based on metadata for the currently viewed electronic content. The disclosed system and method significantly improve efficiency and ease-of-use for document development and synchronization systems.


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