Viewing file modifications

• US 8,694,881 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2009
• Issued: 04/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Original Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Inventors: Alderucci, Dean P., Brinton, Michael D., Gelman, Geoffrey M., Manning, Gregory P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mills, Frank D
• Application Number:
  US12/542,083
• Publication Number:
  US 20090307579A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,695 Days
• Field of Search: 715/229
• US Class Current: 715/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/194 Calculation of difference between files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71

Abstract

Upon closing and/or saving a file, a user may view changes made to the file.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing a set of instructions that when executed by at least one processing device make the at least one processing device operable to:

receive an indication that a user wishes to close a document;

determine that the document comprises one or more changes that have not been saved; and

based at least in part determining that the document comprises one or more changes that have not been saved, cause to be presented to the user;

a recommendation as to whether the one or more changes should or should not be saved,

one or more of the changes,

a first option a selection of which causes one or more changes currently being presented to the user to no longer be presented to the user, and further causes at least another one or more changes to be presented to the user, and

a second option a selection of which causes one or more changes currently being presented to the user to be saved.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, in which the one or more changes comprise a change made between the document and a first version of the document which has been previously saved.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1,

in which presented changes are selectable by the user;

and

in which the set of instructions, that when executed by the at least one processing device, make the at least one processing device further operable to;

based at least in part on determining that the document comprises one or more changes that have not been saved, cause to be presented to the user;

a third option a selection of which causes one or more changes currently being presented to the user to be marked;

and

a fourth option a selection of which causes all marked changes to be saved.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, in which the set of instructions, that when executed by the at least one processing device, make the at least one processing device further operable to:

receive from the user a selection of the second option; and

based at least in part on receiving the selection of the second option, cause to be saved one or more changes currently being presented to the user.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing a set of instructions that when executed by at least one processing device make the at least one processing device operable to:

receive an indication that a document is to be closed;

determine that the document comprises one or more changes that have not been saved;

based at least in part determining that the document comprises one or more changes that have not been saved, cause to be presented to a user;

(i) a recommendation as to whether the one or more changes should or should not be saved, and

(ii) a plurality of selectable options including;

a first option to save the one or more changes;

a second option to not save the one or more changes; and

a third option for the user to be presented with the one or more changes;

determine a selection by the user from among the selectable options; and

based at least in part on the selection comprising the third option, cause to be presented to the user;

one or more changes;

a fourth option a selection of which causes one or more changes currently being presented to the user to no longer be presented to the user, and further causes at least another one or more changes to be presented to the user, and

a fifth option a selection of which causes one or more changes currently being presented to the user to be saved.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 5,

in which the document is initially a copy of a first version of the document;

and

in which the one or more changes comprise one or more changes made to the initial copy.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 5,

in which presented changes are selectable by the user;

and

in which the set of instructions, that when executed by the at least one processing device, make the at least one processing device further operable to;

based at least in part on the selection comprising the third option, cause to be presented to the user;

a sixth option a selection of which causes one or more changes currently being presented to the user to be marked; and

a seventh option a selection of which causes all marked changes to be saved.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7,

in which the set of instructions, that when executed by the at least one processing device, make the at least one processing device further operable to:

receive from the user one or more selections of the sixth option;

receive from the user a selection of the seventh option; and

based at least in part on receiving the selection of the seventh option, cause all marked changes to be saved.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 5,

in which the set of instructions, that when executed by the at least one processing device, make the at least one processing device further operable to:

receive from the user a selection of the fifth option; and

based at least in part on receiving the selection of the fifth option, cause to be saved one or more changes currently being presented to the user.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing a set of instructions that when executed by at least one processing device make the at least one processing device operable to:

receive at least one command that would cause a second version of a document to be discarded;

based at least in part on receiving the at least one command, determine that the second version of the document is different from a first version of the document;

based at least in part on determining that the second version of the document is different from the first version of the document, cause to be displayed to a user;

(i) a recommendation as to whether differences between the second version of the document and the first version of the document should or should not be saved, and

(ii) a plurality of options, in which the options comprise;

a first option to save at least in part the second version of the document;

a second option to discard at least in part the second version of the document; and

a third option for the user to obtain one or more indications of how the second version of the document is different from the first version of the document;

based at least in part on causing to be displayed the recommendation and the plurality of options, receive from the user a selection of at least one of the first, the second, and the third options;

based at least in part on the selection comprising the first option, cause the second version of the document to be saved at least in part;

based at least in part on the selection comprising the second option, cause the second version of the document to be discarded at least in part; and

based at least in part on the selection comprising the third option, cause to be displayed to the user;

one or more differences between the second version of the document and the first version of the document;

a fourth option a selection of which causes one or more differences currently being displayed to the user to no longer be displayed, and further causes at least another one or more differences between the second version of the document and the first version of the document to be displayed to the user; and

a fifth option a selection of which causes one or more differences currently being displayed to the user to be saved.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, in which to cause the second version of the document to be saved at least in part comprises to cause the first version of the document to be discarded at least in part.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, in which the document comprises at least one of:

(a) a word processing document;

(b) a spreadsheet document;

(c) an image;

(d) a drawing;

(e) a computer aided design file;

(f) an audio file; and

(g) a text document.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, in which the second version of the document comprises a version of the document being displayed to the user via a computer.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, in which the second version of the document comprises a version of the document which has been previously saved.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10,

in which the second version of the document is initially a copy of the first version of the document;

in which the set of instructions, that when executed by the at least one processing device, make the at least one processing device further operable to;

prior to receiving the at least one command, receive from the user at least one second command for making alterations to the second version of the document; and

in which the at least one second command causes the second version of the document at least in part to be different from the first version of the document.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, in which the at least one second command is from at least one of:

(a) a keyboard;

(b) a computer mouse;

(c) a computer touchpad;

(d) a trackball; and

(e) a joystick.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, in which the second version of the document is different from the first version of the document as a result of at least one change made to the second version of the document.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, in which the set of instructions, that when executed by the at least one processing device, make the at least one processing device further operable to:

based at least in part on receiving the at least one command, determine that the second version of the document is not different from the first version of the document; and

based at least in part on determining that the second version of the document is not different from the first version of the document, cause to be displayed to the user an indication that no changes have been made to the second version of the document.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, in which the at least one command comprises at least one of:

a command to close the second version of the document;

a command to close a program that is being used to edit the second version of the document; and

a command to shut down the at least one processing device.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, in which to cause to be displayed the plurality of options comprises to cause to be displayed to the user a message as to whether the user wishes to save changes made to the second version of the document, in which the changes at least in part caused the second version of the document to be different from the first version of the document.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 20, in which to cause to be displayed the plurality of options comprises to cause to be displayed to the user the plurality of options as a plurality of buttons that can be selected by the user;

in which at least a first button is associated with the first option;

in which at least a second button is associated with the second option; and

in which at least a third button is associated with the third option.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 21, in which to receive the selection of the at least one of the first, the second, and the third options comprises to receive the selection based at least in part on at least one of the plurality of buttons being selected by the user.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 21,

in which the first button comprises a label “

Yes”

;

in which the second button comprises a label “

No”

; and

in which the third button comprises a label “

View Changes”

.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, in which to cause to be displayed one or more difference comprises to cause to be displayed to the user at least one of:

a portion of text that is present in the second version of the document and not present in the first version of the document; and

a portion of text that is present in the first version of the document and not present in the second version of the document.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10,

in which displayed differences are selectable by the user;

and

in which the set of instructions, that when executed by the at least one processing device, make the at least one processing device further operable to;

based at least in part on the selection comprising the third option, cause to be presented to the user;

a sixth option a selection of which causes one or more differences currently being displayed to the user to be marked; and

a seventh option a selection of which causes all marked differences to be saved.

26. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 25,

in which the set of instructions, that when executed by the at least one processing device, make the at least one processing device further operable to:

receive from the user one or more selections of the sixth option;

receive from the user a selection of the seventh option; and

based at least in part on receiving the selection of the seventh option, cause all marked differences to be saved.

27. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10,

in which the set of instructions, that when executed by the at least one processing device, make the at least one processing device further operable to:

receive from the user a selection of the fifth option; and

based at least in part on receiving the selection of the fifth option, cause to be saved one or more differences currently being displayed to the user.

28. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10,

in which the set of instructions, that when executed by the at least one processing device, make the at least one processing device further operable to determine the first version of the document;

and

in which to determine the first version of the document comprises to;

cause to be displayed to the user a plurality of versions of the document, each version having been previously saved; and

receive from the user a selection of one of the plurality of versions of the document, the selection comprising the first version of the document.