Patent ID: 11893540
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. A computing device for generating a shared collaborative channel for collaboration, the computing device comprising:
a processor; and
a memory having a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, causes the computing device to:
receive a request, from an originating member of an organization, to create the shared collaborative channel, the request including an invitee to be added to the shared collaborative channel;
in response to receipt of the request, generate the shared collaborative channel within collaboration environment shared among members of a collaboration team within the originating organization, wherein the originating member is a member of a collaboration team within the originating organization, and wherein the invitee is a member of the same collaboration team within the originating organization, a different collaboration team within the originating organization, or a different external organization;
provision a substrate group by creating a container associate with the shared collaborative channel including a substrate database associated with the shared collaborative channel, the substrate database including a membership roster of the shared collaborative channel;
generate an invitation including a custom link to the shared collaborative channel for the invitee;
determine whether the invitee belongs to an originating collaboration team associated with the originating member based on the substrate database;
in response to a determination that the invitee belongs to the originating collaboration team, update the substrate group to add the invitee as a new member of the shared collaborative channel; and
assign a set of rights to the invitee for accessing content of the shared collaborative channel based at least in part on which collaboration team and organization the invitee belongs to.