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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Varun Srinivasan, Seattle, WA (US);

Gregory Akselrod, Seattle, WA (US);

David John Rasmussen, Redmond, WA (US);

Eun Ju Nam, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 40/134 (2020.01); G06F 40/103 (2020.01); G06F 40/279 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/134 (2020.01); G06F 40/103 (2020.01); G06F 40/279 (2020.01);
Abstract

A method of enhancing a link in collaboration applications includes determining, from content entered into a collaboration application, a string of characters indicating a uniform resource locator (URL). Upon determining the string of characters indicating the URL from the content entered into the collaboration application, the method includes automatically calling a first web service to obtain a representation of content referenced by the URL by sending a request, at least including the URL, to the first web service. The representation of the content referenced by the URL can then be received from the first web service in a format customized for the collaboration application, a computing device on which the collaboration application is implemented, or both.


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