Enhanced collaboration services
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorBrian Thomas Albrecht
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Abstract
Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein in which a collaboration service registers users as participants in a collaboration session. As session content is received from at least one instance of various instances of a collaboration application engaged by the users, the collaboration service shares the session content with at least one other instance of the collaboration application. In addition, the collaboration service shares session information descriptive of at least a portion of the session content with at least one social network application associated with at least one user registered as one of the participants.
Claims20
A method of operating a collaboration service comprising:
- registering a plurality of users as participants in a collaboration session, including by registering at least a subset of the plurality of users with a plurality of service identities associated with the collaboration service and registering at least one user with a social network identity associated with a social network service;
- receiving session content from a first instance of a plurality of instances of a collaboration application associated with the plurality of users, wherein the session content is associated with one of the plurality of service identities associated with the collaboration service;
- sharing the session content with a second instance of the plurality of instances, wherein the second instance is an instance of the collaboration application that is hosted within the social network service and associated with the at least one user;
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- sharing, through a social network application hosted within the social network service and associated with the at least one user, session information descriptive of at least a portion of the session content.
A computing apparatus comprising:
- one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media;
- a processing system operatively coupled with the one or more computer readable storage media;
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- program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for operating a collaboration service that, when executed by the processing system, direct the processing system to at least:
- register a plurality of users as participants in a collaboration session, including by registering at least a subset of the plurality of users with a plurality of service identities associated with the collaboration service and registering at least one user with a social network identity associated with a social network service;
- receive session content from a first instance of a plurality of instances of a collaboration application associated with the plurality of users, wherein the session content is associated with one of the plurality of service identities associated with the collaboration service;
- share the session content with a second instance of the plurality of instances, wherein the second instance is an instance of the collaboration application that is hosted within the social network service and associated with the at least one user;
- share, through a social network application hosted within the social network service and associated with the at least one user, session information descriptive of at least a portion of the session content.
One or more computer readable storage media having program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for operating a collaboration service that, when executed by a processing system, direct the processing system to at least:
- register a plurality of users as participants in a collaboration session, including by registering at least a subset of the plurality of users with a plurality of service identities associated with the collaboration service and registering at least one user with a social network identity associated with a social network service;
- receive session content from a first instance of a plurality of instances of a collaboration application associated with the plurality of users, wherein the session content is associated with one of the plurality of service identities associated with the collaboration service;
- share the session content with a second instance of the plurality of instances, wherein the second instance is an instance of the collaboration application that is hosted within the social network service and associated with the at least one user;
- sharing, through a social network application hosted within the social network service and associated with the at least one user, session information descriptive of at least a portion of the session content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.