EMPLOYING PRESENCE INFORMATION IN NOTEBOOK APPLICATION

• US 20150172403A1
• Filed: 12/17/2013
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Steinbok, Nicole, Escapa, Daniel, Tse, David, Wionzek, Thomas, Veselova, Olya, Rasmussen, David
• Granted Patent: US 9,438,687 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users

Abstract

To employ presence information in conjunction with a notebook application, presence information is determined for one or more users associated with a notebook application. The presence information may be obtained from a variety of sources, such as a communication application, a social or professional network, and a presence module of the notebook application. Once determined, the presence information is presented to the users through a user interface in conjunction with a location within the notebook application or through a separate user interface. The notebook application may further track the presence information for the users interacting with the notebook application. The users may then be enabled to interact with the user interface to use the presented presence information in conjunction with content maintained by the notebook application.

Claims

1. A method, executed at least in part by a computing device, to employ presence information in conjunction with a notebook application, the method comprising:

determining presence information for one or more users associated with the notebook application, wherein the notebook application includes a plurality of documents, objects, files, pages, sections, and notebooks; and

presenting the presence information to the one or more users through a user interface associated with the notebook application to enable the one or more users interact with the presence information and contents of the notebook application based on the presented presence information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the presence information further comprises:

obtaining presence information from at least one from a set of;

a communication application, a social network, a professional network, and a presence module of the notebook application.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the presence information to the one or more users through a user interface associated with the notebook application further comprises one of:

presenting the presence information in conjunction with a location within the notebook application; and

presenting the presence information as a separate user interface.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein presenting the presence information to the one or more users through the user interface associated with the notebook application further comprises:

employing at least one from a set of;

a textual scheme, a graphical scheme, an audio scheme, an animation scheme, a coloring scheme, a highlighting scheme, and a shading scheme to enhance presentation of the presence information in the user interface.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

tracking the presence information in conjunction with a location within the notebook application; and

presenting the tracked presence information through the user interface associated with the notebook application.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the tracked presence information includes one or more of:

how many times a document, an object, a file, a page, a section, and a notebook are viewed and by which users;

how many times the document, the object, the file, the page, the section, and the notebook are edited and by which users;

how frequently the document, the object, the file, the page, the section, and the notebook are viewed; and

how frequently the document, the object, the file, the page, the section, and the notebook are edited.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

tracking the presence information in conjunction with the one or more users of other notebooks; and

presenting the tracked presence information through the user interface associated with the notebook application.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

enabling the one or more users to initiate communication with one or more other users through the user interface; and

enabling the one or more users to navigate to one or more locations at which one or more other users are currently located by providing an actionable link within the presented presence information, wherein the one or more locations include one of locations within a same notebook and locations in other notebooks.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

enabling the one or more users to interact with the user interface by one or more of;

a tap action, a swipe action, a mouse input, a pen input, and a keyboard input.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

enabling the one or more users to set at least one of credential based and permission based limitations to control the presence information that is available for presentation to one or more other users.

11. A computing device to employ presence information in conjunction with a notebook application, the computing device comprising:

a memory;

a processor coupled to the memory, the processor executing a notebook application and causing a user interface associated with the notebook application to be presented, wherein the notebook application is configured to;

determine presence information for one or more users associated with the notebook application, wherein the notebook application includes a plurality of documents, objects, files, pages, sections, and

notebooks;

present the presence information to the one or more users through the user interface associated with the notebook application; and

enable the one or more users to interact with the presence information and contents of the notebook application based on the presented presence information.

12. The computing device of claim 11, wherein the presented presence information includes one or more of identities of the one or more users that are currently viewing a document, an object, a file, a page, a section, and a notebook within the notebook application and identities of the one or more users that are currently editing a document, an object, a file, a page, a section, and a notebook within the notebook application.

13. The computing device of claim 11, wherein the notebook application is further configured to present statistical information based on tracked presence information in conjunction with one or more of a document, an object, a file, a page, a section, and a notebook within the notebook application.

14. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the statistical information includes one or more of the document, the object, the file, the page, the section, and the notebook that has most views from the one or more users, the document, the object, the file, the page, the section, and the notebook that has most edits from the one or more users, and an average viewing time and editing time for the document, the object, the file, the page, the section, and the notebook.

15. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the notebook application is further configured to automatically adjust an update frequency of one or more of the document, the page, the section, and the notebook based on the statistical information.

16. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the notebook application is further configured to automatically suggest one or more of the document, the object, the file, the page, the section, and the notebook to a user based on the statistical information.

17. The computing device of claim 11, wherein a user is enabled to define the presence information presented to the user through the user interface.

18. A computer-readable memory device with instructions stored thereon to employ presence information in conjunction with a notebook application, the instructions comprising:

determining presence information for one or more users associated with the notebook application, wherein the notebook application includes a plurality of documents, objects, files, pages, sections, and notebooks;

presenting the presence information to the one or more users through one of;

a user interface in conjunction with a location within the notebook application and a separate user interface;

tracking the presence information in conjunction with a location within the notebook application;

presenting the tracked presence information to the one or more users through one of;

a user interface in conjunction with a location within the notebook application and a separate user interface; and

enabling the one or more users to interact with the presented presence information and the tracked presence information through the user interface.

19. The computer-readable memory device of claim 18, wherein the tracked presence information is further presented to one or more of:

a communication application, a social network, a professional network, and a presence module of the notebook application.

20. The computer-readable memory device of claim 18, further comprising enabling the one or more users to employ the presented presence information and the tracked presence information to one of:

prioritize one or more of a document, an object, a file, a page, a section, and a notebook, clean up a notebook to remove unused documents, objects, files, pages, sections, and notebooks, rediscover one or more a document, an object, a file, a page, a section, and a notebook, and follow other users to one or more of a document, an object, a file, a page, a section, and a notebook.