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Method for causing server to provide client computers with annotation functions for enabling users of the client computers to view object-based documents with annotations

  • US 20050198202A1
  • Filed: 07/07/2004
  • Published: 09/08/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for causing a server to provide on-line and on-demand to a client computer, which is connected with the server via a network and which has a Web browser, an annotation function available to other client computers, to thereby allow the client computer to communicate with the other client computers using annotations, the method comprising:

  • a storing step of storing on the server, by the server, viewing information that allows a user of the client computer to view a document with an attached annotation on a screen of the client computer; and

    a transmitting step of transmitting, by the server, in response to a request of the user to view the document, the viewing information to the client computer, the viewing information including;

    (a) document information representing the document in a format that allows the user to view the document by the Web browser, such that the document is defined so as to be classified into a plurality of objects which are capable of being designated individually;

    (b) annotation information representing the annotation in a format that allows the user to view the annotation by the Web browser, the annotation information including position information defining a position that the annotation is to be displayed by the Web browser with the annotation being attached to the document, in association with a corresponding one of the plurality of objects; and

    (c) a script to be executed by the client computer for allocating the annotation to the document.

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