Inventor
MILVANEY DOUGLAS LANE
US17 patents
Patents
17 patentsUS11244284B2Feb 8, 2022
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System and method for managing notifications of document modifications
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Suggesting people qualified to provide assistance with regard to an issue identified in a file
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Merged and actionable history feed
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Smart suggested sharing contacts
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Catch up heuristics for collaborative application environments
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Milestones in file history timeline of an electronic document
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Engagement signal generation and analysis
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Managing a collaborative workspace to identify relevant activities and present the relevant activities to a user
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In-context display of out-of-context contact activity
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Merged and actionable history feed
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Activity based sorting in collaborative applications
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Systems and methods to summarize change in an electronic workspace
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Activity based sorting in collaborative applications
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Memory conserving versioning of an electronic document
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Modern document save and synchronization status
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