Inline review tracking in documents

• US 8,086,960 B1
• Filed: 05/31/2007
• Issued: 12/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Gopalakrishna, Ramesha, Edwin, Anand S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Quoc A
• Application Number:
  US11/809,612
• Time in Patent Office: 1,671 Days
• Field of Search: 715230-237, 715/266, 715/762, 715/764
• US Class Current: 715/266
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions

Abstract

Inline review tracking in documents is described, including receiving an input to a document displayed in a browser, generating a comment and an option, the comment being configured to describe the input and the option being configured to perform one or more actions associated with the input, marking the document with a tag based on the input, storing the input using another tag in a comment section of the document; and presenting the document, the comment, and the option, wherein the document is displayed in a first frame, and the comment and the option are displayed in a second frame.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving an input to a body of an electronic markup language document that is being displayed in a window; and

in response to said receiving;

generating a comment based on or including the input;

storing the comment in a comment section of a data structure for the electronic document, wherein said storing comprises formatting the comment using a tag to identify the comment, wherein the comment section of the data structure is separate from a body section of the data structure, wherein the body section of the data structure includes content for the body of the electronic markup language document; and

displaying the body of the electronic markup language document and an action user interface element in the window, wherein the action user interface element can be activated to perform an action in regard to at least part of the comment stored in the comment section of the data structure, wherein the action includes one or more of view, accept, reject, modify, delete, insert, or replace.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic document is formatted using HTML.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the comment provides information about the input.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the comment is generated using plain text.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the action user interface element is generated using a scripting language.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the action user interface element is generated using JavaScript.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the input indicates a modification to the body of the electronic document.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the tag indicates an edit to the electronic document, the tag being stored in a pre-defined format within the comment section of the electronic document.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein a portion of the body of the electronic document associated with the input is identified using another tag, the another tag being usable to determine how the electronic document is modified in accordance with the input.

10. A method, comprising:

receiving an input to a body of an electronic markup language document that is being displayed in a browser; and

in response to said receiving;

generating a comment based on or including the input;

marking a body section of a data structure for the electronic document with a tag based on the input, wherein the body section includes content for the body of the electronic markup language document;

storing the comment in a comment section of the data structure for the electronic document, wherein said storing comprises storing the input using another tag to identify the comment, wherein the comment section of the data structure is separate from the body section of the data structure; and

displaying the body of the electronic markup language document and an action user interface element, wherein the action user interface element is useable to cause the browser to parse the tag and the another tag to determine where the input can be applied to the electronic markup language document.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising the browser parsing the tag and the another tag to determine how to modify the document using the input.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the action user interface element is useable to perform an action to accept the modification made to the document in accordance with the input.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the action user interface element is useable to perform an action to reject the modification made to the document in accordance with the input.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the action user interface element is useable to perform an action to submit a request to view the input apart from the document.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the action user interface element is useable to perform an action to submit a request to view the input and the comment apart from the document.

16. A system, comprising:

a memory configured to store data associated with one or more electronic documents; and

a processor configured to;

receive an input to a body of an electronic markup language document that is being displayed in a window; and

in response to receiving the input;

generate a comment based on or including the input;

store the comment in a comment section of a data structure for the electronic document, wherein said storing comprises storing the comment using a tag to identify the comment, wherein the comment section of the data structure is separate from a body section of the data structure, wherein the body section of the data structure includes content for the body of the electronic markup language document; and

display the body of the electronic markup language document and an action user interface element in the window, wherein the action user interface element can be activated to perform an action in regard to at least part of the comment stored in the comment section of the data structure, wherein the action includes one or more of view, accept, reject, modify, delete, insert, or replace.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the electronic document is formatted using HTML.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the window is invoked using a browser.

19. A system, comprising:

a memory that stores instructions executable to implement a data structure, wherein the data structure is configured to store data associated with a document; and

a logic module configured to;

receive an input to a body of an electronic markup language document that is being displayed in a browser; and

in response to receiving the input;

generate a comment based on or including the input;

mark a body section of a data structure for the electronic document with a tag based on the input, wherein the body section includes content for the body of the electronic markup language document;

store the comment in a comment section of the data structure for the electronic document, wherein said storing comprises storing the input using another tag to identify the comment, wherein the comment section of the data structure is separate from the body section of the data structure; and

display the body of the electronic markup language document and an action user interface element, wherein the action user interface element is useable to cause the browser to parse the tag and the another tag to determine how the input can be applied to the electronic markup language document;

wherein the logic module is implemented, at least in part, by circuitry in the system.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the comment describes a modification to the document.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the action user interface element is useable to perform a request for an action associated with the comment.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the action user interface element is useable to perform a request to view the comment.

23. The system of claim 21, wherein the action user interface element is useable to perform a request to reject a modification described in the comment.

24. The system of claim 21, wherein the action user interface element is useable to perform a request to accept a modification described in the comment as a modification to the document.

25. A non-transitory, computer readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed on one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform:

receiving an input to a body of an electronic markup language document displayed in a browser; and

in response to said receiving;

generating a comment based on or including the input;

storing the comment in a comment section of a data structure for the electronic document, wherein said storing comprises storing the comment using a tag to identify the comment, wherein the comment section of the data structure is separate from a body section of the data structure, wherein the body section of the data structure includes content for the body of the electronic markup language document; and

displaying the body of the electronic markup language document and an action user interface element in the browser, wherein the action user interface element can be activated to perform an action in regard to at least part of the comment stored in the comment section of the data structure, wherein the action includes one or more of view, accept, reject, modify, delete, insert, or replace.

26. A non-transitory, computer readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed on one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform:

receiving an input to a body of an electronic markup language document that is being displayed in a browser; and

in response to said receiving;

generating a comment based on or including the input;

marking a body section of a data structure for the electronic document with a tag based on the input, wherein the body section includes content for the body of the electronic markup language document;

storing the comment in a comment section of the data structure for the electronic document, wherein said storing comprises storing the input using another tag to identify the comment, wherein the comment section of the data structure is separate from the body section of the data structure; and

displaying the body of the electronic markup language document and an action user interface element, wherein the action user interface element is useable to cause the browser to parse the tag and the another tag to determine where the input can be applied to the electronic markup language document.