Rich text box for live applications in a cloud collaboration platform

US11169789B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Salesforce.com, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Julie Tung · Los Altos, US
• Rajeev Nayak · San Francisco, US
• Kevin A. Gibbs · San Francisco, US
• Bret Steven Taylor · Los Gatos, US
• Yang Su · San Francisco, US
• Nate Botwick · San Francisco, US
• Pedram Razavi · San Francisco, US
• Scott Goodfriend · Berkeley, US
• Nikrad Mahdi · San Francisco, US
• Andy Chung · Berkeley, US
• Drew W. Hamlin · San Francisco, US
• Patrick Linehan · San Francisco, US
• Sophia Westwood · Mountain View, US
• Lindsey Simon · San Francisco, US
• Shrey Banga · San Francisco, US
• Diana Berlin · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 31, 2019
• Grant date: Nov 9, 2021
• Expiry date: Mar 6, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/02
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing a rich text box to customizable live applications in a cloud collaboration platform. The rich text box component may extend styles and functions performed within a document editor in the cloud collaboration platform to customizable live applications. This extension ensures a consistent user experience where the behavior of text-editing in live application mirrors that of the standardized document editor. Additional functionality, such as mentions and auto-completions, may be performed by the rich text boxes embedded in a live application without adding to the code base of the live application, complicating design decisions, and/or circumventing the security requirements of a live application.