Microsoft patents system to track and match document work among users
Microsoft has filed a patent application for a system that tracks what people do with documents, such as editing or reviewing them. The system uses a network structure to connect these actions, allowing users to follow others' work or find colleagues who can help with specific tasks.
In the filing’s own words
A facility for managing information about document-related activities is described. In some cases, the facility uses particular kinds of structures to represent, in a document graph, document-related activities performed by particular users. In some cases, the facility uses these structures to enable one user to subscribe to the document-related activities performed by another user. In some cases, the facility uses these structures to aggregate document-related activities performed by users in a group of users, such as by aggregating topics that are addressed by documents that are the subject of these document-related activities. In some cases, the facility uses particular kinds of structures to represent, in a document graph, tasks that certain users either can help with or need help with. In some cases, the facility uses these structures to match users that can help with a task with users that need help with a task.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1.- 20. (canceled)
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- MANAGING INFORMATION ABOUT DOCUMENT-RELATED ACTIVITIES
- Publication number
- US20260267929A1
- Application number
- 19640135
- Filed
- Apr 6, 2026
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 21
Classified under
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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