US 2020/0028806 A1 · FILE-LEVEL COMMENTS IN COLLABORATIVE CONTENT ITEMS

Abstract

A collaborative content management system enables users to selectively create file-level comments, in addition to content level comments, in collaborative content items. A file-level comment can be created in a number of different ways, including creating a comment associated with a title, header, heading, or other designated portion of the content; by designating a message associated with sharing the content item as a file-level comment; by replaying via a messaging system to a message sharing the content item; or by including a file-level primitive in the content of a comment. A file-level comment may be indicated in the collaborative content item by visually distinguishing formatting of a title, header or other portion of the content item. A file-level comment may be displayed in a visually distinctive manner, such as with specified formatting or in a specific window pane apart from content level comments.

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Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

identifying, in content to be included in a first comment, a file-level primitive input by a user, the file-level primitive indicating that the first comment is a file-level comment on a collaborative content item;
responsive to identifying the file-level primitive, creating a reference between the collaborative content item as a whole and the first comment;
receiving a request for the collaborative content item, and in response, generating a representation of the collaborative content item, wherein generating the representation of the collaborative content item comprises generating a representation of the first comment,
wherein the representation of the first comment includes an indicator that the first comment is a file-level comment;
and
sending the representation of the collaborative content item for display.

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A computer system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computer system to:
receive a command to create a new comment at a file-level for a collaborative content item, wherein the command is to create the new comment at the file-level due to a title of the collaborative content item being selected by a user when the command was received;
responsive to receiving the command, create a reference between the collaborative content item as a whole and the first comment;
receive a representation of the collaborative content item, the representation of the collaborative content item including a file-level comment corresponding to the new comment;
and
send for display the representation of the collaborative content item including a first association between the file-level comment and the title of the collaborative content item, the first association being based on the reference.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a first client device based on input by a user, a sharing action for a collaborative content item, the sharing action including a sharing message;
and
responsive to receiving the sharing action, creating a reference, between the collaborative content item as a whole and a first comment, wherein the first comment is associated with comment content comprising the sharing message, and wherein the reference is associated with a file-level indicator that specifies that the first comment corresponds to a file as a whole.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

File-level comments in collaborative content items

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File-level comments in collaborative content items

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