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

Claim 15:
16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for generating a shared collaborative channel for collaboration, the instructions when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations, comprising:
receiving a request, from an originating member in an originating organization, to create the shared collaborative channel, the request including an invitee to be added to the shared collaborative channel;
in response to receiving the request, generating 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;
provisioning a substrate group by creating a container including a substrate database associated with the shared collaborative channel, the substrate database including a membership roster of the shared collaborative channel;
generating an invitation including a custom link for accessing the shared collaborative channel by the invitee, the custom link indicating an identity of the invitee;
based on the identity of the invitee, determining whether the invitee belongs to an originating organization based on an organizational database;
in response to determining that the invitee belongs to the originating organization, updating the membership roster of the substrate database to add the invitee as a new member of the shared collaborative channel; and
assigning 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,
wherein the substrate group is associated with an independent identity management directory that includes a list of members that are authorized to access resources or content associated with the shared collaborative channel.