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Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 20, 2013
Applicant:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Eran Megiddo, Redmond, WA (US);

David Rasmussen, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); G06F 17/22 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 17/2288 (2013.01); G06Q 10/101 (2013.01); H04L 12/1831 (2013.01);
Abstract

Change tracking and collaborative communication are provided in authoring content in a collaborative environment. Monitored changes, comments, and similar input by the collaborating authors may be presented on demand or automatically to each author based on changes and/or comments that affect a particular author, that author's portion of collaborated content, type of changes/comments, or similar criteria. Change and/or comments notification may be provided in a complementary user interface of the collaborative authoring application or through a separate communication application such as email or text messaging.


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