Patent ID: 11907642
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method of enhancing a link in collaboration applications, comprising:
determining, from content entered into a body of a collaboration application, a string of characters indicating a uniform resource locator (URL);
upon determining the string of characters indicating the URL from the content entered into the body of the collaboration application, automatically calling a first web service to obtain a representation of content referenced by the URL by sending a request to the first web service, wherein the request at least comprises the URL and content negotiation for a particular format for the content;
receiving the representation of the content referenced by the URL from the first web service in the format requested such that the content is customized for the collaboration application, a computing device on which the collaboration application is implemented, or both; and
displaying the representation of the content referenced by the URL in the body of the collaboration application.