Method to initiate server based collaboration on e-mail attachments
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1. A method for initiating collaboration, comprising:
- accepting from a user a message for electronic delivery, said message comprising recipient data identifying one or more recipients and one or more attached documents upon which collaboration is to be initiated;
sending a request to a collaboration server to initiate collaboration on said one or more attached documents by collaborators comprising said one or more recipients;
modifying the message by inserting information regarding the collaboration server and inserting a link to the one or more attached documents upon which collaboration has been initiated by said collaboration server; and
sending said modified 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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1. A method for initiating collaboration, comprising:
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accepting from a user a message for electronic delivery, said message comprising recipient data identifying one or more recipients and one or more attached documents upon which collaboration is to be initiated; sending a request to a collaboration server to initiate collaboration on said one or more attached documents by collaborators comprising said one or more recipients; modifying the message by inserting information regarding the collaboration server and inserting a link to the one or more attached documents upon which collaboration has been initiated by said collaboration server; and sending said modified 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; an electronic messaging application that allows a user to create an electronic message and to include one or more attached documents to be collaborated upon by one or more recipients and that modifies the message upon initiation of a collaboration by inserting information regarding a collaboration server and by inserting a link to the one or more attached documents upon which collaboration has been initiated by said collaboration server; and a collaboration request module that sends a request to the collaboration server to provision a collaboration site for initiating collaboration on the one or more attached documents by the one or more recipients and the user; and an electronic message server that sends the modified electronic 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, from a user, a request that collaboration be initiated on a document that is attached to a message for electronic delivery to one or more recipients; creating a collaboration site with the document copied to the collaboration site; modifying the message by inserting information regarding a collaboration server and by inserting a link to the attached document upon which collaboration has been initiated by said collaboration server; and sending the modified message identifying the collaboration site to the one or more recipients. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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