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US 11,122,104 B2Granted
Surfacing sharing attributes of a link proximate a browser address bar
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsRafael Lopez-Uricoechea, Eugene S. Lin
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Abstract
A browser on a client device is navigated to a hosting computing system that hosts a service that provides access to documents. The browser is navigated to a particular document, to access the document. The document is displayed by the browser. A link to the document is displayed in an address bar generated by the browser, along with a graphical element indicative of the sharing attributes corresponding to the link.
Claims20
A computer implemented method, comprising:
- obtaining access to a document, stored on a remote server system, through a web browser;
- displaying, to a user on a web browser user interface, a portion of the document;
- displaying a link to the document on the web browser user interface;
- obtaining a sharing attribute corresponding to the link, the sharing attribute representing a link usage permission for another user to access the document using the link;
- and
- displaying a graphical element on the web browser user interface, along with the link, based on the sharing attribute.
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A computer system, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- memory storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to:
- based on an input associated with a user through a web browser, navigate to a document stored on a remote server system;
- generate a web browser user interface that includes:
- a portion of the document;
- and
- a link to the document;
- obtain a sharing attribute corresponding to the link, the sharing attribute representing a link usage permission for another user to access the document using the link;
- identify a user actuatable graphical element based on the sharing attribute corresponding to the link;
- and
- generate the user actuatable graphical element on the web browser user interface.
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A computer system, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- memory storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computer system to:
- navigate, for a user, to a document, stored on a remote server system, with a web browser;
- generate a web browser user interface that includes:
- a portion of the document;
- and
- a link to the document;
- identify a link usage permission for another user to access the document using the link;
- and display a graphical element that represents the link usage permission.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.