Virtual shadow awareness for multi-user editors
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsSasa Junuzovic, Prasun Dewan, Yong Rui
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Abstract
Techniques are provided for indicating workspace awareness using one or more of a write shadow, a read shadow, and/or a shadowbar providing an indication of operations performed at associated locations by various users accessing a same document. A write shadow may be used to indicate a position in a document being modified by a user. A read shadow may be used to indicate a position being viewed by a user. A shadowbar may be used to indicate areas of overlap among users with a shading and coloring indicative of a degree of overlap.
Claims20
A method of indicating write awareness comprising:
- establishing a collaborative session for a document, said collaborative session being between a plurality of users accessing said document;
- and
- representing a position of each of said plurality of users modifying a document using a write shadow, said write shadow indicating a position in said document being modified by said each user.
A method of indicating read awareness comprising:
- establishing a collaborative session for a document, said collaborative session being between a plurality of users accessing said document;
- and
- representing each reader viewing said document using a read shadow.
A computer-readable medium comprising having computer executable instructions stored thereon for performing steps comprising:
- establishing a collaborative session for a document, said collaborative session being between a plurality of users accessing said document;
- providing a shadowbar, said shadowbar displaying, for a first of said plurality of users, scrollbar elevators for all others of said plurality of users in a single column display, an area of overlap of said scrollbar elevators being rendered in accordance with a coloring and shading indicative of a degree of overlap and of which scrollbars elevators are included in said area of overlap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.