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PROVIDING ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS IN AN ONLINE DOCUMENT SHARING COMMUNITY

  • US 20130246384A1
  • Filed: 03/19/2012
  • Published: 09/19/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer program for implementing an online document sharing community in a network environment including a plurality of participant computers operated by participants in the online document sharing community and a storage system, wherein the computer program is implemented in a computer readable storage medium, wherein the computer program is executed to perform operations, the operations comprising:

  • generating document information in a database identifying a document in the storage system and an owner of the document, wherein the document includes content comprising subject matter protected by intellectual property laws;

    processing the document content to add search terms for the document and the document identifier to a search index accessible through a search engine over the network to participants not under an obligation of confidentiality to the owner with respect to the document;

    providing access to the content of the document to the participants in the online document sharing community accessing the search engine to obtain search results identifying the document;

    determining a publication time the document was included in the search index, wherein the publication time indicates a time and/or date the search engine makes the content of the document accessible to the participant computers operated by participants not under the obligation of confidentiality to the owner with respect to the document content; and

    indicating the determined publication time in the document information.

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