Method To Initiate Server Based Collaboration On E-Mail Attachments
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1. A method for initiating collaboration, comprising:
- accepting a message for electronic delivery, said message identifying one or more recipients and one or more documents upon which collaboration is to be initiated;
sending a request to a collaboration server to initiate collaboration on said one or more documents by collaborators comprising at least one of said one or more recipients; and
sending said message to said one or more recipients.
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Abstract
Server-based collaboration is initiated by an email. When the user creates the email message with attachments, a collaboration website is provisioned. The collaboration website allows collaborations on the attached documents by the recipients of the message. The ease of collaboration with email and the advantages of the collaboration server are thus both available to the user.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for initiating collaboration, comprising:
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accepting a message for electronic delivery, said message identifying one or more recipients and one or more documents upon which collaboration is to be initiated; sending a request to a collaboration server to initiate collaboration on said one or more documents by collaborators comprising at least one of said one or more recipients; and sending said message to said one or more recipients. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for enabling collaboration, comprising:
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a memory that stores computer executable code; a processor that processes said computer executable code to implement; a messaging application that creates a message to one or more recipients including one or more documents to be collaborated upon by the one or more recipients; and a collaboration request module that sends a request to a collaboration server to provision a collaboration site for initiating collaboration on the one or more documents by the one or more recipients; and a message server that sends the message to the one or more recipients. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A non-transitory computer storage media storing program instructions that, when executed by a computing device, perform a method of initiating collaboration by:
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receiving a request that collaboration be initiated on a document identified by a message for electronic delivery to one or more recipients; creating a collaboration site with the document copied to the collaboration site; and sending the message identifying the collaboration site to the one or more recipients. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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