Resource sharing and designation of permissions for other tenants and unregistered users of same tenant

• US 10,187,395 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2016
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Chaudhry, Anjli, Vong, William Hong, Jansen, Ryan A., Banina, Samuel Lenz, Arreola Gutierrez, Jose Miguel
• Primary Examiner(s): To, Baotran N
• Application Number:
  US15/283,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20170318021A1
• Time in Patent Office: 844 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3322 using system suggestions G06F16/3325 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3332 Query translation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles

Abstract

Autocompleting into an invite box for purposes of sharing an executable computing resource such as an application or portion thereof. However, the autocomplete is populated with potential sharees of multiple tenants or with identities that are not registered with the tenant directory of the user. Thus, potentially any potentially sharee worldwide may be populated within the list of potential sharees. As the desired potential sharee comes into view, that potential sharee may be selected, and added to a list of one or more selected sharees. At some point, a control may be selected to allow the executable computing resource to be shared with the selected sharees within the list.

Claims

1. A computing system comprising:

one or more hardware processors; and

a computer-readable hardware storage device having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that are executable by the one or more hardware processors to cause the computing system to present a user interface for sharing an executable computing resource with one or more sharees, the user interface including an invite box in which a user enters at least a portion of user identifiers of potential sharees of the executable computing resource, and to cause the computing system to respond to entry of text into the invite box by performing a method comprising;

an act of accessing identifiers from a multi-tenant database of user identifiers;

an act of matching the accessed identifiers against the text entered into the invite box to identify a set of potential sharees;

an act of displaying at least a portion of the set of potential sharees in a sharee select control that is visually associated with the invite box and that allows the user to select one or more potential sharees from the set of potential sharees;

upon selection of a potential sharee from the sharee select control, an act of adding the selected potential sharee to a list of one or more selected sharees; and

an act of sharing the executable computing resource, wherein the executable computing resource is shared in a state in which input has already been entered into the executable computing resource such that the input is included with the executable computing resource during the sharing.

2. The computing system in accordance with claim 1, the method being performed in response to each of multiple incremental entries of portions of the text into the invite box thereby narrowing the identified set of potential sharees.

3. The computing system in accordance with claim 1, the act of matching the accessed identifiers against the text comprising an act of identifying an expected schema of the text being entered in the invite box.

4. The computing system in accordance with claim 3, the expected schema changing as more of the text is entered.

5. The computing system in accordance with claim 3, the expected schema including universal identification schema.

6. The computing system in accordance with claim 3, the expected schema including an e-mail schema.

7. The computing system in accordance with claim 1, the executable computing resource comprising an application.

8. The computing system in accordance with claim 1, the executable computing resource comprising a portion of an application.

9. The computing system in accordance with claim 1, the method further comprising:

an act of sharing the executable computing resource with the one or more selected sharees on the list.

10. The computing system in accordance with claim 1, the method further comprising:

an act of determining a sharing permission associated with at least one of the one or more selected sharees on the list.

11. The computing system in accordance with claim 10, the method further comprising:

an act of sharing the executable computing resource with the one or more selected sharees on the list in a manner that the at least one of the one or more selected sharees has the determined sharing permission.

12. The computing system in accordance with claim 10, wherein a selected sharee has a sharing permission that allows the selected sharee to share the executable computing resource with yet one or more other sharees.

13. The computing system in accordance with claim 10, wherein the sharing permission is selected from amongst a plurality of possible sharing permissions.

14. The computing system in accordance with claim 13, wherein one of the plurality of possible sharing permissions is a default sharing permission.

15. The computing system in accordance with claim 13, wherein one of the plurality of possible sharing permissions is a default sharing permission given one or more conditions applicable to one or more of the at least one of the one or more selected sharees on the list.

16. A method comprising:

an act of presenting a user interface for sharing an application with one or more sharees, the user interface including an invite box;

an act of detecting user entry of text within the invite box;

in response to detecting the user entry of the text within the invite box, an act of accessing identities from a multi-tenant database of user identities;

an act of matching the accessed identities against the text entered into the invite box to identify a set of potential sharees;

an act of displaying at least a portion of the set of potential sharees in a sharee select control that is visually associated with the invite box and that allows a user to select one or more potential sharees from the set of potential sharees;

upon selection of a potential sharee from the sharee select control, an act of adding the selected potential sharee to a list of one or more selected potential sharees; and

an act of sharing the executable computing resource, wherein the executable computing resource is shared in a state in which input has already been entered into the executable computing resource such that the input is included with the executable computing resource during the sharing.

17. The method in accordance with claim 16, the displayed portion of the set of potential sharees also includes a potential sharee that is not in a tenant directory of any tenants of the multi-tenant database.

18. The method in accordance with claim 17, the act of accessing identities also comprising accessing a directory of potential sharees that are not in the multi-tenant database.

19. The method in accordance with claim 17, wherein a temporary entry is made in the tenant directory in order to facilitate sharing of the executable computing resource with the potential sharee that is not in the tenant directory of any of the tenants of the multi-tenant database.

20. A computer-readable hardware storage device having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that are executable by one or more hardware processors of a computing system to cause the computing system to perform a method comprising:

an act of presenting a user interface for sharing an application with one or more sharees, the user interface including an invite box;

an act of detecting user entry of text within the invite box;

in response to detecting the user entry of the text within the invite box, an act of accessing identities from a multi-tenant database of user identities;

an act of matching the accessed identities against the text entered into the invite box to identify a set of potential sharees;

an act of displaying at least a portion of the set of potential sharees in a sharee select control that is visually associated with the invite box and that allows a user to select one or more potential sharees from the set of potential sharees;

upon selection of a potential sharee from the sharee select control, an act of adding the selected potential sharee to a list of one or more selected potential sharees and

an act of sharing the executable computing resource, wherein the executable computing resource is shared in a state in which input has already been entered into the executable computing resource such that the input is included with the executable computing resource during the sharing.