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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2003
Christopher Pratley, Seattle, WA (US);
Marcin Sawicki, Kirkland, WA (US);
Anne Marie Renée Archambault, Redmond, WA (US);
Raj Bharat Merchant, Kirkland, WA (US);
Michael Anthony Rigler, Seattle, WA (US);
Sean Blagsvedt, Seattle, WA (US);
Ethan Joseph Bernstein, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Pratley, Seattle, WA (US);
Marcin Sawicki, Kirkland, WA (US);
Anne Marie Renée Archambault, Redmond, WA (US);
Raj Bharat Merchant, Kirkland, WA (US);
Michael Anthony Rigler, Seattle, WA (US);
Sean Blagsvedt, Seattle, WA (US);
Ethan Joseph Bernstein, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus are provided for viewing and managing collaboration data from within the context of a shared electronic document. A document editing pane is displayed for editing the shared document. In conjunction with the document editing pane, a collaboration pane is displayed for displaying the collaboration data. Through the collaboration pane, collaboration data such as the identities of one or more collaborators, task, documents, links and other information may be displayed. Actions may also be performed with respect to any aspect of the collaboration data through the collaboration pane.