Collaboration cards for communication related to a collaborated document

US10078627B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Shikha Devesh Desai · Minneapolis, US
• Gary Caldwell · Redmond, US
• Rolf A. Ebeling · Kirkland, US
• Taili Feng · Bellevue, US
• Paul Scudieri · Seattle, US
• Sung-Joon WON · Seongnam-si, KR
• Eugene Y. Suh · Bellevue, US
• Ruth Kikin-Gil · Redmond, US
• Patrick Davis · Greentown, US
• Derik Stenerson · Redmond, US
• Suzan Marashi · Redmond, US
• Navneet Singh Kambo · Redmond, US
• Zachary Burstain · Seattle, US
• Erin O'Connell · North Reading, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 20, 2015
• Grant date: Sep 18, 2018
• Expiry date: Oct 17, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/10
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Collaboration cards are provided to enable people to collaborate and receive instant replies to comments or questions from anywhere in a collaboratively generated document. A collaborator may add somebody's name to a collaboration card and ask that person for information, for example. That person may receive the question/comment via an email, a text message, a posting, or comparable communication methods, and respond back with the requested information through the same communication channel or another communication channel. The replied content may be placed into the collaboration card created in the document, and the original sender may be enabled to accept a change to the document content based on the collaboration card.