Ethan Zev Bernstein, 4024 Bartlett Cres, Brookline, MA 02446

7640506, Dec 29, 2009

Jun 27, 2003

10/607780

Christopher Pratley - Seattle WA, US
Marcin Sawicki - Kirkland WA, US
Anne Marie Renée Archambault - Redmond WA, US
Raj Bharat Merchant - Kirkland WA, US
Michael Anthony Rigler - Seattle WA, US
Sean Blagsvedt - Seattle WA, US
Ethan Joseph Bernstein - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 3/01

715751

Methods, systems, and apparatus are provided for viewing and managing collaboration data from within the context of a shared electronic document. A document editing pane is displayed for editing the shared document. In conjunction with the document editing pane, a collaboration pane is displayed for displaying the collaboration data. Through the collaboration pane, collaboration data such as the identities of one or more collaborators, task, documents, links and other information may be displayed. Actions may also be performed with respect to any aspect of the collaboration data through the collaboration pane.

7698638, Apr 13, 2010

Sep 15, 2004

10/943095

Murray Sargent, III - Medina WA, US
Jennifer P. Michelstein - Kirkland WA, US
Ethan Joseph Bernstein - Seattle WA, US
Said Abou-Hallawa - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/00
G06F 17/20

715267, 715273

Systems and methods for automatically building up an equation entered into a computer system can include an input module that accepts input of the equation in a linear string format, and an interpret module that interprets the input and automatically determines when a buildup point is reached. Systems can further include a formatting module that, upon reaching the buildup point, automatically formats at least a portion of the equation into a two-dimensional format. A display module can display the portion of the equation in the two-dimensional format. A revision module allows the equation to be edited.

7941399, May 10, 2011

Nov 9, 2007

11/938082

Jonathan Beckett Bailor - Bellevue WA, US
Ethan Joseph Bernstein - Mercer Island WA, US
Mark Rolland Knight - Bellevue WA, US
Christopher James Antos - Bellevue WA, US
Andrew Richard Simonds - Newcastle WA, US
Brian Michael Jones - Redmond WA, US
Simon Peter Clarke - Seattle WA, US
Edgar Mark Sunderland - Seattle WA, US
David Benjamin Robins - Duvall WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/00

707608, 715711

A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user.

8028229, Sep 27, 2011

Dec 6, 2007

11/951973

Jonathan Beckett Bailor - Bellevue WA, US
Ethan Joseph Bernstein - Mercer Island WA, US
Mark Rolland Knight - Bellevue WA, US
Christopher James Antos - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/00

715255

Methods and systems of merging a first document with at least a second document to generate a third document. Each of the first and second documents includes at least one data unit. Each data unit is associated with a unit identifier and an edit identifier. The unit identifiers of each of the documents are compared to the unit identifiers of the other document to determine whether each unit identifier is a matching or non-matching unit identifier. Edit identifiers of the data units associated with the matching unit identifiers are compared to each other. Data units associated with the non-matching unit identifiers are inserted directly into the third document. Data units associated with the matching unit identifiers and the matching edit identifiers are inserted directly into the third document. Data units associated with the matching unit identifiers and the non-matching edit identifiers are merged into the third document.

8161019, Apr 17, 2012

May 1, 2009

12/433929

Jonathan B. Bailor - Bellevue WA, US
Christopher J. Antos - Bellevue WA, US
Ethan J. Bernstein - Mercer Island WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/00

707704, 709206

A computing device includes a processing unit, and a memory with instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to create: a document processing module that processes the creation and editing of document content; and a metadata processing module that generates, monitors and stores metadata for a document on the computing device, the metadata processing module generating lock creation metadata that include information about a new lock that is created when a user begins to edit a portion of a document, lock removal metadata that includes information about removing a lock, and lock deletion metadata that includes information about deleting a lock, the metadata processing module writing lock creation metadata to both a data channel and to a separate metadata channel, the metadata processing module writing lock removal metadata to the data channel and the metadata processing module writing lock deletion metadata to the metadata channel.

8327278, Dec 4, 2012

Feb 17, 2009

12/371932

Mark Rolland Knight - Bellevue WA, US
Ethan Joseph Bernstein - Mercer Island WA, US
Christopher J. Antos - Bellevue WA, US
Jonathan Bailor - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 3/00
G06F 17/00
G06F 15/16

715753, 715234, 715255, 707610, 707612, 709203

Tools and techniques for synchronizing metadata and document content across client systems using different communication channels are provided. These tools may define logical communication channels between client software components, and may allocate one of these channels to synchronizing updates to the contents of documents shared between these client components. These tools may allocate another one of the communication channels to synchronizing metadata between the client components, with the metadata describing activity pertaining to the shared documents. The client components may receive indications of activity made by users to the document contents, and may create metadata representing the activity. These client components may then transmit this metadata, using the further communication channel, to any number of other client components automatically in real time with the updates.

8352418, Jan 8, 2013

Apr 4, 2011

13/079605

Jonathan Beckett Bailor - Bellevue WA, US
Ethan Joseph Bernstein - Mercer Island WA, US
Mark Rolland Knight - Bellevue WA, US
Christopher James Antos - Bellevue WA, US
Andrew Richard Simonds - Newcastle WA, US
Brian Michael Jones - Redmond WA, US
Simon Peter Clarke - Seattle WA, US
Edgar Mark Sunderland - Seattle WA, US
David Benjamin Robins - Duvall WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/00

707608, 715711

A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user.

8352870, Jan 8, 2013

Apr 28, 2008

12/111174

Jonathan Beckett Bailor - Bellevue WA, US
Ethan Joseph Bernstein - Mercer Island WA, US
Kelly Michael Krout - Redmond WA, US
Matthew Eric Mizulo - Kirkland WA, US
Jonathan Ian Gordner - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 3/00

715751, 715230

Embodiments of a collaborative authoring environment enable a user to resolve editing conflicts arising when synchronizing a user copy of a data file with a master copy of the data file. Content updates may be synchronized separately from metadata updates. Metadata updates may be synchronized automatically, whereas content updates may be synchronized only when any identified editing conflicts are resolved. When an editing conflict is identified, the user interface of the authoring application may be configured to toggle between displaying and hiding the identified editing conflicts.