Content marking
View Patent ↗Techniques for content marking are provided. An Application includes a plug-in which permits an offset location within a document to be marked as a content marker. The content marker is stored independent of the application and is subsequently processed by a content marking service. The content marking service permits the content marker to be selected causing the application to be initiated, the document to be loaded within the application, and the offset location to be presented within the document.
1. A method implemented in a computer-readable storage medium and to execute on a processing device for performing the method, comprising:
receiving, via a first plugin to a first application, a first reference location within a first document associated with the first application, a first application identifier, and metadata added by at least one of a user, the first application, and the first application plugin;
receiving, via a second plugin to a second application, a second reference location within a second document associated with a second application, a second application identifier, and metadata added by at least one of a user, the second application, and the second application plugin;
recording the first and second reference locations along with a first document identifier and a second document identifier for the first and second documents, respectively, first application identifier and the second application identifier of the first and second applications, respectively, and the received metadata, the reference locations, the document identifiers, and the application identifiers recorded within a content marker data store as content marker records and that span multiple applications, including the first and second applications, and that span multiple environments;
associating a same security policy for configurable groupings of the content marker records that selectively permits viewing of selective fields of the content marker records based on an identity assigned to a requesting user of the content marker records, the security policy assigned by an automated service and included within the content marker records, and wherein the security policy is identified within a security policy field of the content marker records; and
wherein the first and second applications are disparate applications that process different native data formats that are augmented with the first and second plugins, respectively, to create and consume application-independent content marker data store data to present a reference location of a document of the content data store data.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising, sharing the content marker data records with a select group over a network.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
receiving a selection of one of the content marker records for the first reference and the first document identifier;
initiating the first application;
loading the first document within the first application; and
traversing to the first reference location within the first document.
4. The method of claim 1 further comprising, assigning security policies for accessing the content marker data records.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein assigning further includes associating different ones of the security policies with different ones of the content marker records.
6. The method of claim 1 further comprising, associating and storing a configurable amount of data proximate to the first reference location within the first document with the first reference location and the first document identifier within one of the content marker records.
7. The method of claim 1 further comprising, storing descriptive information for the first reference location and the first document identifier within one of the content marker records.