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20080222455 | Reporting diagnostic information for code of an application program interface - A technology for reporting diagnostic information for code of an application program interface is disclosed. In one method approach, diagnostic information for a line of code in a file associated with an application program interface is received. The diagnostic information includes a designation of the line of code. The diagnostic information is stored in a fixed sized buffer. Efficient use of memory is provided without requiring elimination of other diagnostic information previously stored in the fixed sized buffer. | 09-11-2008 |
20080222732 | Computer manufacturer and software installation detection - Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, allows the manufacturer of a computer system to be identified. In one approach to the technology, a method of determining the manufacturer of a computer is described. The method involves accessing a collection of manufacturer identification code information. The method also involves reading a specific manufacturer identification code from the computer. The method calls for comparing the specific manufacturer identification code with the collection of manufacturer identification code information, to determine the manufacturer of the computer. | 09-11-2008 |
20100057682 | Information Feeds of a Social Network - Various embodiments can be configured to provide a social networking computing environment. In an embodiment, a networked computing system can be used to provide informational feeds and commenting functionality to users of a social computing environment. In one embodiment, an enterprise-based social computing system can be configured to provide informational feeds to social networking application users. An informational feed can be populated with events and other information associated with one or more users of interest of an application user, but is not so limited. In one embodiment, a social computing environment can be configured to allow user commenting to feed items or events that are associated with a user or group of users. | 03-04-2010 |
20120151377 | ORGANIC PROJECTS - A collaborative project management system is provided to create a project workspace linking together various work-product items including e-mails, documents and tasks based on the identification and association of related information contained in such items. A new project workspace may contain groups of documents, correspondence such as emails, instant message and web chatting, tasks, and other data types linked together by common content topics. The system may initiate a new project workspace based on information contained in an initial correspondence, such as an email conversation, by identifying items that are related to the email conversation such as tasks or documents that a user creates or shares subsequent to receipt of an email or message, and automatically inferring an association based on their contents. | 06-14-2012 |
20120151379 | SHARED ATTACHMENTS - When an outgoing communication sent to one or more recipients contains a supported attachment type, a shared workspace that contains a shared version of the original attachment is provisioned. A modified version of the original outgoing communication is delivered to internal recipients including both a link to the shared document and the original attachment. | 06-14-2012 |
20120284639 | SIMULTANEOUS EMAIL AND ATTACHMENT VIEWING - Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating the simultaneous (e.g., side-by-side or via a “sliding” animation) displaying and viewing of email messages and any attachments to such email messages are disclosed. Such systems, methods and computer program products allow a user of a computing system to simultaneously view the textual portion of an email along with the contents of any attachments within one application, and without the need to switch between at least two software applications—the email reader application and the native (productivity) application used to create such attachment (e.g., a word processing software application, a spreadsheet application, a presentation application, a database application, a portable document format reader, a Web browser and/or the like). | 11-08-2012 |
20120290545 | COLLECTION OF INTRANET ACTIVITY DATA - Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating the collection of data within a computer network (especially an intranet) while complying with applicable privacy laws and regulations, as well as individual organizations' rules addressing intranet users' privacy are disclosed. Such systems, methods and computer program products allow for the collecting of activity information related to computer-based activities performed by users while logged into an organization's intranet. Such activity includes navigating to URLs, opening and editing documents, writing, opening and reading email and instant messages, and the like. The collecting, consolidating, storing and exposing of such activity information—while ensuring privacy requirements—serves as a basis for high-value services (e.g., augmenting documents with extra information, improving search results, automatic news feeds, social networking announcements, etc.) to be offered and provisioned to such users. | 11-15-2012 |
20130096813 | LOCATION ENHANCED MEETINGS AND COLLABORATION - A location enhanced meeting service (“LEM Service”) may provide a geographical based map indicating meeting locations for a selected day. The user can view locations of meetings for a scheduled day, along with travel times. Conditions impacting travel time may be provided to the user along with updated estimated travel times and suggested alternative routes. The scale of the map may be based on the geographical diversity of the attendees. A user can view a location enhanced meeting map for particular meeting, and obtain directions to the meeting. The user can also request to view attendee's locations to the meeting on the map prior to the meeting. If an attendee is expected to be late, the user may establish a voice conference with that attendee. If a user is expected to be late to a meeting, the user may provide a notification to the other attendees of the meeting. | 04-18-2013 |
20140365918 | INCORPORATING EXTERNAL DYNAMIC CONTENT INTO A WHITEBOARD - Dynamic content may be included on a digital whiteboard canvas. The dynamic content includes external content that changes. For example, web pages, images from an external source, presentations, shared displays, newsfeeds, and the like may be placed on the whiteboard. The user may interact with the dynamic content in either a live mode or an annotation mode. An annotation mode allows a user to annotate the dynamic content. For example, a user may ink on top of dynamic content. If a size of a dynamic content object changes, a size of the inking may also change. Different viewing modes are used to interact with the dynamic content on the whiteboard. A live mode allows a user to interact with the dynamic content and an annotation mode allows a user to annotate the dynamic content. A “snapshot” of the dynamic content may be created and stored with the whiteboard. | 12-11-2014 |
20140380193 | SHOWING INTERACTIONS AS THEY OCCUR ON A WHITEBOARD - Real-time interactions made by a client on a whiteboard are shown on remote client(s) currently viewing the whiteboard. The real-time interactions that are shown on the remote clients can include a variety of different interactions. For example, the location(s) of where a remote client is touching the whiteboard or interacting with the whiteboard using a stylus may be viewed. A current inking stroke of a remote user may also be viewed as it is occurring. Interactions on the whiteboard may be shown differently depending on the remote user performing the interaction. The whiteboard may also show a location on the whiteboard where each of the remote users are currently viewing. A user may also track the actions of another user. When a change is committed to the whiteboard, the remote clients update the display to reflect the committed state. | 12-25-2014 |
20150264728 | AUTHENTICATION AND PAIRING OF DEVICES USING A MACHINE READABLE CODE - An MR code is generated within a browser on a client device and is read by a mobile application on a mobile device. A communication channel is then established through a web-based service, between the browser and the mobile application on the mobile device. The mobile application generates a user interface display on the mobile device that allows user selection of content. The mobile application sends a link to that content to the browser, which accesses and renders the content on the client device. User input commands to control the rendered content are also received at the mobile device and sent to the browser through the communication channel. | 09-17-2015 |
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20090222448 | ELEMENTS OF AN ENTERPRISE EVENT FEED - An enterprise-based social networking application. The events pool for the social networking application may be automatically populated without requiring direct individual participation in the social networking application. Furthermore, networks may be established automatically, without an expressed invitation. The default network may be based on a participant's communication history and/or organization context within the enterprise. The participant may then edit or expand the network without necessarily requesting permission for the individuals being added, and without necessarily being part of that individual's network. | 09-03-2009 |
20090222750 | ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORKING SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE - An enterprise-based social networking application. Events for individuals may be collected from various enterprise-based information systems automatically using adaptors that are specially tailored for particular types of information systems. Such events may then be used to populate event feeds regarding individuals in that enterprise. A filtering model for formulating event feeds identifies events by individual, event type, and event time. The filter also identifies which individuals are in which group of a participant, and identifies which groups correspond to which event types. Incoming events may then be filtered into the event feeds depending on the group to which the individual belongs. A user interface for a participant to view and edit group membership is also provided. | 09-03-2009 |
20130067549 | Cloud-Based Broker Service for Digital Assistants - A cloud-based broker service may be provided for computing devices in a distributed computing environment. The broker service may aggregate user accounts and user account credentials utilized for accessing online services by the computing devices. The broker service may monitor a context of the computing devices associated with the user accounts. The broker service may then utilize the context, data associated with the user accounts and data associated with the user account credentials to automate tasks and/or provide alerts associated with the data. | 03-14-2013 |
20140324977 | ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORKING SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE - An enterprise-based social networking application. Events for individuals may be collected from various enterprise-based information systems automatically using adaptors that are specially tailored for particular types of information systems. Such events may then be used to populate event feeds regarding individuals in that enterprise. A filtering model for formulating event feeds identifies events by individual, event type, and event time. The filter also identifies which individuals are in which group of a participant, and identifies which groups correspond to which event types. Incoming events may then be filtered into the event feeds depending on the group to which the individual belongs. Filtering an event from an events pool to formulate an event feed is also provided. | 10-30-2014 |
20140365978 | Managing Ink Content in Structured Formats - Managing ink content in structured formats on a computing device is provided. Ink content may be received by the computing device. The ink content may then be recognized by the computing device to correspond to a content format associated with one or more applications. The ink content may then be converted by the computing device into a content associated with the one more applications. | 12-11-2014 |
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20110179045 | Template-Based Management and Organization of Events and Projects - A space in which a user may organize data and collaborate with other users is provided. Project data and metadata may be saved into a reusable template and stored in a repository, wherein other users may discover and download the template for use as a resource for a related project type. A template may contain various document types that may expose a breadth of applications and application functionalities that may be utilized for a given task or project. Questions and answers, task templates, and terminology may also be provided. Project templates may allow for collaboration on projects, wherein business and/or social groups may collaborate quickly, easily, and more completely. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179049 | Automatic Aggregation Across Data Stores and Content Types - Project-related data may be aggregated from various data sources, given context, and may be stored in a data repository or organizational knowledge base that may be available to and accessed by others. Documents, emails, contact information, calendar data, social networking data, and any other content that is related to a project may be brought together within a single user interface, irrespective of its data type. A user may organize and understand content, discover relevant information, and act on it without regard to where the information resides or how it was created. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179060 | Automatic Context Discovery - An automatic discovery of content to add to a data store for a project is disclosed. A data item may be parsed for data features that are contextually relevant to a given project or task. Discovered interesting data may be extracted and mapped to various search mechanisms. A search may be built and applied to various data sources to discover data items based on the contextually relevant data features. Search results from various search mechanisms may be displayed in a single user interface and may be presented to a user. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179061 | Extraction and Publication of Reusable Organizational Knowledge - An analysis module, when triggered by a synchronization framework when a new data item is added to a project data store, runs a series of analysis feature extractors on the new content. An analysis may be conducted, and features of interest may be extracted from the data item. The analysis utilizes natural language processing, as well as other technologies, to provide an automatic or semi-automatic extraction of information. The extracted features of interest are saved as metadata within the project data store, and are associated with the data item from which it was extracted. The analysis module may be utilized to discover additional information that may be gleaned from content that is already in the project data store. | 07-21-2011 |
20130006973 | Summarization of Conversation Threads - Automatically summarizing electronic communication conversation threads is provided. Electronic mails, text messages, tasks, questions and answers, meeting requests, calendar items, and the like are processed via a combination of natural language processing and heuristics. For a given conversation thread, for example, an electronic mail thread associated with a given task, a text summary of the thread is generated to highlight the most important text in the thread. The text summary is presented to a user in a visual user interface to allow the user to quickly understand the significance or relevance of the thread. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006986 | Automatic Classification of Electronic Content Into Projects - Automatically classifying content into a given project workspace is provided. New electronic mail items, documents, meeting requests, tasks, calendar items, and the like are automatically classified into a project workspace. Thus, a user is not required to engage in a time-consuming task of identifying, collecting, and associating such content with a given project workspace. In addition, feedback may be provided to the user on the quality of automatic assignments of content items to the desired workspace for editing content associated with the desired workspace and for improving the automatic classification process. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007009 | Expertise Tagging and Project Membership Suggestion - Automatically tagging individual users for identifying expertise or other relevant skills associated with the individual users based on various sources of information used or interacted with by the users is provided. After expertise tags are established for an individual user, the expertise tagging and other information about the user's profile and computing activities may be used for automatically suggesting a user for membership in one or more other project groups or workspaces that may be a good fit for the user's expertise or other relevant skills. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007036 | Automatic Project Content Suggestion - Automatically suggesting content, for example, documents, contacts information, tasks, calendar items, and the like, for inclusion into an electronic collaborative workspace is provided. Given a short description of a given project or collaborative workspace, an initial project membership list, and identification of local or external content repositories, content associated with the project or workspace may be retrieved and recommended to one or more users for inclusion into the project or collaborative workspace. Thus, the time and effort required for initially populating an electronic workspace with needed content is dramatically reduced. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007037 | Automatic Question and Answer Detection - Automatic detection of question and answer pairs contained in electronic communications channels is provided. Communications channels for a given enterprise, for example, emails, text message strings, and discussion forum strings are analyzed according to one or more features or patterns that are indicative of questions for detecting whether one or more questions are posed in a given communication. Next, answers that are relevant to identified questions are similarly identified by analyzing one or more communications for features and patterns that are indicative of answers to a question, and more particularly, to an identified question. Once an identified question is linked to an identified answer, the linked question and answer pair is stored in a publicly available repository for future reference by users having access to the repository. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007137 | Electronic Conversation Topic Detection - Automatic conversation topic detection, generation and storage are provided. Electronic conversation threads and associated metadata for a variety of types of electronic communications are retrieved. Topic properties such as keywords or terms and information about the conversation threads are extracted from the conversation threads and metadata. Extracted thread terms and properties are used for identification of a topic title associated with the conversation threads and metadata. An identified topic title is compared with previously identified topics to determine whether the identified topic is new or whether the identified topic is the same as a previously identified topic. A short and useful topic title is generated in order to allow subsequent users to know what the conversation thread is about at a glance. A user interface component may allow users to accept, reject or modify a generated topic title. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007607 | Automatic Glossary Generation - Automatically generating a glossary of terms for a given document or group of documents is provided. A single document or a group of documents associated with a given project or event are parsed for one or more unique terms (e.g., words, acronyms, phrases, etc.). Identified terms are passed to a local or external definition source, and definitions for the one or more identified terms are retrieved. Retrieved definitions are presented to a user of the documents, and approved definitions are stored in a project store for subsequent use in association with the documents. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007648 | Automatic Task Extraction and Calendar Entry - Automatically detected and identified tasks and calendar items from electronic communications may be populated into one or more tasks applications and calendaring applications. Text content retrieved from one or more electronic communications may be extracted and parsed for determining whether keywords or terms contained in the parsed text may lead to a classification of the text content or part of the text content as a task. Identified tasks may be automatically populated into a tasks application. Similarly, text content from such sources may be parsed for keywords and terms that may be identified as indicating calendar items, for example, meeting requests. Identified calendar items may be automatically populated into a calendar application as a calendar entry. | 01-03-2013 |
20130191460 | MANAGING TEAM MAILBOX INTEGRATING EMAIL REPOSITORY AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT STORE SERVICES - A communication application creates a team mailbox integrating messages from an email repository and documents from a content management store (CMS). The application enables an administrator to define and manage members of the team mailbox with varying privilege status for accessing the team mailbox. Content such as aggregated messages and associated documents are displayed through a unified view to standardize ease of access. The members are enabled to receive messages sent to the team mailbox by others. Policies inherited from email repository, CMS, and/or third party policy providers are enforced within the team mailbox. | 07-25-2013 |
20140082487 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A GLOSSARY OF TERMS FOR A GIVEN DOCUMENT OR GROUP OF DOCUMENTS - Automatically generating a glossary of terms for a given document or group of documents is provided. A single document or a group of documents associated with a given project or event are parsed for one or more unique terms (e.g., words, acronyms, phrases, etc.). Identified terms are passed to a local or external definition source, and definitions for the one or more identified terms are retrieved. Retrieved definitions are presented to a user of the documents, and approved definitions are stored in a project store for subsequent use in association with the documents. | 03-20-2014 |