Utilizing server pre-processing to deploy renditions of electronic documents in a computer network

• US 10,198,523 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2009
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Howell, Gareth A., Brown, Christopher J., Kapoor, Sugandha S., Lange, Donovan P., Zhu, Zhenjun
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Manglesh M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hasty, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US12/477,460
• Publication Number:
  US 20100312822A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,534 Days
• Field of Search: 715273, 709204, 709203, 709273
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Embodiments are provided for utilizing server pre-processing to deploy static renditions of electronic documents in a computer network. An electronic document may be published from a client computer to a first server computer in the computer network. During publication, the first server computer may create a static rendition of the electronic document and a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer. The first server computer may store the static rendition of the electronic document and the viewing application on a second server computer for delivery to the client computer. Other embodiments may also include receiving, at the first server computer, a request to make revisions to the electronic document and sending a dynamic version of the electronic document from the first server computer to the client for making the revisions to the electronic document.

Claims

1. A method of utilizing server pre-processing to deploy static renditions of electronic documents in a computer network, comprising:

initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network by;

determining that a current demand for the electronic document has increased a network traffic load above a threshold; and

responsive to the determination that the current demand for the electronic document has increased the network traffic load above the threshold, initiating the publication of the electronic document on the client computer instead of publishing by sending the electronic document for hosting by a second server computer in the computer network;

during publication of the electronic document, creating at a first server computer;

a static rendition of the electronic document, the static rendition of the electronic document being created by converting an editable rendition of the electronic document to an uneditable rendition of the electronic document during pre-processing operations on the first server computer, the pre-processing operations comprising continuing a publication process for a revised dynamic version of the electronic document; and

a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer in the computer network, wherein creating a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer comprises configuring the viewing application to embed a viewer to view the static rendition of the electronic document as an object in a web page hosted by a website; and

storing the static rendition of the electronic document and the viewing application on the second server computer for delivery to the client computer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network comprises initiating, from the client computer, publication of the electronic document to the first server computer in the computer network.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein initiating, from the client computer, publication of the electronic document to the first server computer comprises receiving, at the first server computer, a request to publish an electronic document.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network comprises initiating publication of at least one of a word processing application document, a presentation application document, and a spreadsheet application document to the first server computer.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

initiating, from the first server computer, publication of the revised dynamic version of the electronic document to the first server computer, wherein the publication of the revised dynamic version of the electronic document to the first server computer is automatically initiated in response to revisions made to the electronic document at the client computer;

creating a static rendition of the revised dynamic version of the electronic document at the first server computer; and

storing the static rendition of the revised dynamic version of the electronic document on the second server computer for delivery to the client computer.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network comprises initiating publication of a note-taking application document to the first server computer.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving a static rendition of an electronic document and a dynamic version of the electronic document from a client computer comprises receiving a static rendition of a word processing application document and a dynamic rendition of the word processing application document.

5. A method of utilizing server pre-processing to deploy static renditions of electronic documents in a computer network, comprising:

initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network by;

determining that a current demand for the electronic document has increased a network traffic load above a threshold; and

responsive to the determination that the current demand for the electronic document has increased the network traffic load above the threshold, initiating the publication of the electronic document on the client computer instead of publishing by sending the electronic document for hosting by a second server computer in the computer network;

during publication of the electronic document, creating at a first server computer;

a static rendition of the electronic document, the static rendition of the electronic document being created by converting an editable rendition of the electronic document to an uneditable rendition of the electronic document during pre-processing operations on the first server computer, the pre-processing operations comprising continuing a publication process for a revised dynamic version of the electronic document; and

a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer;

storing the static rendition of the electronic document and the viewing application on the second server computer for delivery to the client computer;

receiving, at the first server computer, a request to make revisions to the electronic document from the client computer;

sending a dynamic version of the electronic document from the first server computer to the client computer for making the revisions to the electronic document, wherein sending the dynamic version of the electronic document comprises utilizing a background process to download the dynamic version of the electronic document while the static rendition of the electronic document is being viewed in a viewing application at the client computer.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

initiating, from the first server computer, publication of the revised dynamic version of the electronic document to the first server computer, wherein the publication of the revised dynamic version of the electronic document to the first server computer is automatically initiated in response to revisions made to the electronic document at the client computer;

creating a static rendition of the revised dynamic version of the electronic document at the first server computer; and

storing the static rendition of the revised dynamic version of the electronic document on the second server computer for delivery to the client computer.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein creating a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer comprises creating a viewing application for presenting the static rendition of the electronic document as appearing to be the same as the dynamic version of the electronic document.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein creating a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer comprises creating a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document in a full screen window generated in a web browser on the client computer.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network comprises receiving, at the first server computer, a request from the client computer to publish the electronic document.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network comprises initiating publication of a note-taking application document to the first server computer.

20. The method of claim 5, wherein initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network comprises initiating publication of at least one of a word processing application document, a presentation application document, and a spreadsheet application document to the first server computer.

11. A memory storage comprising computer executable instructions which, when executed on a computer, will cause the computer to perform a method of utilizing server pre-processing to deploy static renditions of electronic documents in a computer network, the method comprising:

receiving a static rendition of an electronic document and a dynamic version of the electronic document from a client computer, wherein the static rendition is an uneditable rendition of the electronic document and the dynamic rendition is an editable rendition of the electronic document, and wherein the static rendition of the electronic document being created during a publication of the electronic document, the publication of the electronic document being initiated by;

determining that a current demand for the electronic document has increased a network traffic load above a threshold; and

responsive to the determination that the current demand for the electronic document has increased the network traffic load above the threshold, initiating the publication of the electronic document on the client computer instead of publishing by sending the electronic document for hosting by a server computer in the computer network;

configuring a viewing application to embed a viewer to view the static rendition of the electronic document as an object in a web page hosted by a website;

receiving, revisions to the dynamic version of the electronic document from the client computer; and

creating a static rendition of the revised dynamic electronic document received from the client computer, wherein the static rendition of the electronic document is created by converting an editable rendition of the electronic document to an uneditable rendition of the electronic document during pre-processing operations, the pre-processing operations comprising continuing a publication process for the revised dynamic version of the electronic document.

12. The memory storage of claim 11, wherein receiving a static rendition of an electronic document and a dynamic version of the electronic document from a client computer comprises receiving a static rendition of a word processing application document and a dynamic rendition of the word processing application document.

13. The memory storage of claim 11, wherein receiving a static rendition of an electronic document and a dynamic version of the electronic document from a client computer comprises receiving a static rendition of a presentation application document and a dynamic rendition of the presentation application document.

14. The memory storage of claim 11, wherein receiving a static rendition of an electronic document and a dynamic version of the electronic document from a client computer comprises receiving a static rendition of a spreadsheet application document and a dynamic rendition of the spreadsheet application document.

15. The memory storage of claim 11, wherein receiving a static rendition of an electronic document and a dynamic version of the electronic document from a client computer comprises receiving a static rendition of a note-taking application document and a dynamic rendition of the note-taking application document.

16. The memory storage of claim 11, wherein initiating publication of the electronic document comprises receiving, at the first server computer, a request to publish an electronic document.