Document collaboration system
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1. A method for document collaboration, comprising:
- establishing a document collaboration session;
defining a group of one or more users permitted to participate in the document collaboration session;
defining one or more documents to be part of the document collaboration session;
defining a synchronous mode or an asynchronous mode of operation for the document collaboration session;
permitting the one or more users to make changes to the one or more documents; and
propagating the changes to the one or more documents to the users in the group.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a network-distributed document collaboration interface for document review sessions that permits multiple participants to view, markup, and annotate a document simultaneously and in real-time. Both synchronous and asynchronous modes of document collaboration are possible. A network-based application permits the centralized control of documents and collaboration sessions to distributed participants. The document collaboration system also permits saving, retrieving, resuming, and replaying document review sessions and supports concurrent real-time audio, video, and text-based meetings.
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1. A method for document collaboration, comprising:
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establishing a document collaboration session;
defining a group of one or more users permitted to participate in the document collaboration session;
defining one or more documents to be part of the document collaboration session;
defining a synchronous mode or an asynchronous mode of operation for the document collaboration session;
permitting the one or more users to make changes to the one or more documents; and
propagating the changes to the one or more documents to the users in the group. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A machine-readable medium having one or more instructions to provide a document collaboration interface, which when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:
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establish a document collaboration session;
define a group of one or more users permitted to participate in the document collaboration session;
define one or more documents to be part of the document collaboration session;
define a synchronous mode or an asynchronous mode of operation for the document collaboration session;
permit the one or more users to make changes to the one or more documents; and
propagate the changes to the one or more documents to the users in the group. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system comprising:
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a document collaboration server configured to host a document collaboration session, store one or more documents associated with the document collaboration session, maintain a list of authorized participants who are permitted to join the document collaboration session, notify the authorized participants that a document collaboration session has been created; and
one or more network-distributed client interfaces communicatively coupled to the document collaboration server, at least one client interface configured to permit the authorized participants to access the document collaboration session, permit the authorized participants to review the one or more documents associated with the document collaboration session, permit the authorized participants to make simultaneous changes to the one or more documents, and propagate the changes made to the one or more documents by one of the participants to all of the authorized participants. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23)
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22. The system of claim 22 wherein the changes made by the first participant cannot be edited by any other participant.
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