HIERARCHICAL PRIVACY SETTINGS FOR COMMENTS AND MARKUPS IN A SHARED DOCUMENT
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1. A document management system, comprising:
- a collaboration system that provides collaboration user input mechanisms that are actuated to perform collaboration functions on a shared document; and
a privacy component that displays a privacy setting user input mechanism that is actuated to set a restrictive privacy level, of a plurality of settable restrictive privacy levels, for a markup corresponding to the shared document.
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Abstract
A user selects a markup and a privacy setting user input mechanism is displayed. User actuation of the mechanism, setting of privacy level, is received and a hierarchical privacy level of the selected markup is set. The hierarchical privacy level is stored for the selected markup.
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1. A document management system, comprising:
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a collaboration system that provides collaboration user input mechanisms that are actuated to perform collaboration functions on a shared document; and a privacy component that displays a privacy setting user input mechanism that is actuated to set a restrictive privacy level, of a plurality of settable restrictive privacy levels, for a markup corresponding to the shared document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. The document management system of claim 10 wherein, in response to actuation of the privacy component calculating that the recipient has credentials that meet the restrictive privacy level, the messaging system generates a message that includes markup content of the selected markup, corresponding content of the shared document and a link to the shared document and sends the message to the recipient.
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11. A document management system, comprising:
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a collaboration system that generates document accessing user input mechanisms that are actuated to access a shared document with corresponding markups that have a restrictive privacy level set; a privacy component that accesses credential data corresponding to the requesting user and that identifies, as displayable markups, any markups for which a requesting user has credentials that meet the restrictive privacy level, and that identifies, as hidden markups, any markups for which a requesting user does not have credentials that meet the restrictive privacy level; and a user interface component that displays the shared document, making the displayable markups accessible to the requesting user, without making the hidden markups accessible to the requesting user. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method, comprising:
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receiving a user input accessing a given markup on a shared document; displaying a privacy level setting input mechanism for the given markup; receiving actuation of the privacy level setting input mechanism, identifying a restrictive privacy level, of a plurality of selectable restrictive privacy levels; associating the identified restrictive privacy level with the given markup; and restricting subsequent access to the given markup based on the identified restrictive privacy level. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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