Contextual conversations for a collaborative workspace environment
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsWilliam James Bliss, Larry Jin, Richard Taylor, Pedro DeRose
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Abstract
Described herein is a user interface that enables messages within a collaborative workspace environment to be propagated to different workspaces that are associated with different tabs in the collaborative workspace environment. Thus, a comment made in a workspace associated with a first tab is reflected in a workspace associated with a different tab and vice versa.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- at least one processing unit;
- and
- at least one memory storing computer executable instructions which, when executed by the at least one processing unit, cause the system to provide a user interface for a collaborative workspace environment, the user interface comprising:
- a first canvas associated with an entity provided by a service in a collaborative workspace environment;
- a set of commenting tools that enable comments to be provided about the entity;
- and
- a second canvas for displaying a representation of the entity and for providing a conversation area for the entity;
- wherein comments made in the first canvas are reflected in the conversation area of the second canvas and wherein comments made in the conversation area of the second canvas are reflected in the first canvas.
A method for displaying input associated with an entity in a collaborative workspace environment, comprising:
- receiving input in a conversation pane of a first canvas in a user interface of the collaborative workspace environment, wherein the canvas is associated with a particular context;
- displaying the input in the conversation pane;
- generating a representation of the input;
- receiving a selection of a second canvas in the collaborative workspace environment;
- and
- displaying the representation in the second canvas.
A computer-readable storage medium encoding computer executable instructions which, when executed by a processing unit, generates a user interface, the user interface comprising:
- a first canvas having a conversation pane in which input, associated with an entity, is provided;
- and
- a second canvas for displaying a representation of the input received in the first canvas;
- wherein input received in the first canvas is reflected in the representation of the second canvas and wherein input received in the second canvas and associated with the representation is reflected in the first canvas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.