Web-page collaboration system
First Claim
1. A collaboration system comprising:
- a monitor component that monitors a user'"'"'s access to a source document, an annotation component, operably coupled to the monitor component, that is configured to facilitate a retrieval of one or more annotations associated with the source document from a database of annotations, based on the user'"'"'s access to the source document, and a display component, operably coupled to the annotation component, that is configured to facilitate a display of the annotations coincident with a display of the source document.
2 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A collaborative development system is configured to allow the virtual appending of comments to a user-accessible document, without actually attaching the comments to the document. The collaborative development system allows authorized users to access the comments that are virtually appended to the document, in a manner similar to accessing comments that are actually attached to documents in a conventional collaborative development system. As used in a web-page development process, a conventional browser is used to access a released version of a web-page, and a browser band object is used to collect and display comments among developers of the web-page. The browser band object is synchronized to events in the browser, so that as each web-page is accessed, the comments that are associated with the selected page are accessed. The comments are stored independent of the web-page, and are accessible only to users of the collaborative development system. Changes to the web-page can be released without the overhead that is typically associated with the purging of comments in a conventional collaborative development system.
-
Citations
30 Claims
-
1. A collaboration system comprising:
-
a monitor component that monitors a user'"'"'s access to a source document, an annotation component, operably coupled to the monitor component, that is configured to facilitate a retrieval of one or more annotations associated with the source document from a database of annotations, based on the user'"'"'s access to the source document, and a display component, operably coupled to the annotation component, that is configured to facilitate a display of the annotations coincident with a display of the source document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
-
-
18. A method of facilitating communication of comments relating to a source document, the method comprising:
-
obtaining an identification of the source document, based on access by a user to the source document, obtaining a comment from the user related to the source document, storing the comment and the identification at a database that is configured to facilitate retrieval of the comment by one or more other users, via the identification of the source document. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
-
-
24. A method of facilitating communication of comments relating to a source document, the method comprising:
-
obtaining an identification of the source document, based on a user'"'"'s access to the source document, retrieving at least one annotation from a database of a plurality of annotations, based on the identification of the source document, and displaying the at least one annotation coincident with a display of the source document. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
-
Specification