Web interface including the review and manipulation of a web document and utilizing permission based control

• US 9,984,054 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2011
• Issued: 05/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SDL PLC (RWS Holdings Plc)
• Original Assignee: SDL PLC (RWS Holdings Plc)
• Inventors: Trese, Andrew, Closset, Frank, van den Oever, Laurens
• Primary Examiner(s): McIntosh, Andrew T
• Application Number:
  US13/217,122
• Publication Number:
  US 20130055074A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,470 Days
• Field of Search: 715255
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/60 Protecting data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2145 Inheriting rights or properties, e.g., propagation of permissions or restrictions within a hierarchy
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71

Abstract

Systems, methods, and media for controlling the review of documents. Methods may include receiving a request to review a document, responsive to the request, retrieving the document, the document including source content in an extensible markup language format, the document having a read-only access file permission, converting the document to read-write access file permission such that the source content is modifiable, receiving a modification of the source content of the document, incorporating the modification of the source content into the document to create a modified document, and automatically providing the modified document in a displayable format via the web-based interface.

Claims

1. A method for controlling collaborative review of a document between a plurality of document reviewers, the method comprising:

receiving a request to review a document from each of a plurality of document reviewers;

responsive to the request, retrieving the document, the document having a read-only access file permission;

converting the document to read-write access file permission such that source content of the document is modifiable;

providing the source content to the plurality of document reviewers, each of the document reviewers using a document editor that executes within a browser of each of the reviewer computing systems, the source content being converted for display within the document editor;

receiving, from the plurality of document reviewers, tentative modifications of the source content of the document;

applying, by the document editor, an XML schema definition (XSD) to the source content;

comparing the tentative modifications to the XSD for consistency and formatting, rejecting the tentative modifications if non-conforming with the XSD;

displaying a warning message if the tentative modifications are non-conforming;

displaying the tentative modifications of the source content within the document;

transmitting the tentative modifications to a plurality of client nodes;

receiving crowdsourced feedback to the tentative modifications from the plurality of client nodes; and

creating a modified document based on the tentative modifications and the crowdsourced feedback, the modified document being displayed via a web-based interface.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the request is received via a web-based interface.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising automatically providing the modified document in a displayable format to a web-based interface, after a step of incorporating the tentative modifications into the document.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the modification of the source content is received via a web-based extensible markup language editor associated with the web-based interface.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying the modification of the source content of the document as tentative changes until receiving permission to incorporate the modification, the tentative changes being visually distinctive from the source content.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein receiving permission includes:

receiving feedback from the plurality of document reviewers responsive to receiving the modification of the source content of the document; and

at least one of approving and rejecting incorporation of the modification of the source content into the document based upon the feedback.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising validating the received tentative modifications before a step of incorporating the tentative modifications into the document.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein validating includes applying an extensible markup language schema definition to the tentative modifications and rejecting the tentative modifications if the tentative modifications do not conform to the extensible markup language schema definition.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising converting the modified document back to read-only access file permission and storing the modified document in a storage media.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

displaying to the plurality of document reviewers, a navigation aid that visually portrays iterations of the document, the iterations comprising modifications to the document over time, the modifications being shown in the navigation aid in chronological order with a glyph between adjacent modification dates.

11. A system for controlling review of a document, the system comprising:

a memory for storing executable instructions for controlling review of the document; and

a processor configured to execute the instructions, the instructions including;

a display module that (a) receives requests to review documents and retrieves the document upon a web-based interface receiving a request to review the document, the document including source content in an extensible markup language format, the document having a read-only access file permission;

(b) converts the document to read-write access file permission such that the source content is modifiable;

(c) provides the source content to a plurality of document reviewers, each of the document reviewers using a document editor that executes within a web-based interface of a browser of each of the reviewer computing systems, the source content being converted for display within the document editor, the document editor applying an XML schema definition (XSD) to the source content; and

(d) applies a different document review template to the document for each of the plurality of document reviewers, wherein a document review template comprises a limited subset of review functionalities based upon the technical sophistication of a document reviewer;

a review module communicatively coupled with the display module that;

receives tentative modifications of the source content of the document from each of the plurality of document reviewers;

receives crowdsourced feedback to the tentative modifications from the plurality of document reviewers;

creates a modified document based on the tentative modifications and the crowdsourced feedback, the modified document being displayed via a web based interface; and

creates the modified document based on the crowdsourced feedback to the tentative modifications, wherein the tentative modifications from each of the plurality of document reviewers are visually distinct so as to identify a respective one of the plurality of document reviewers, wherein the modified document is compared to the XSD for consistency and formatting, the modified document being rejected if non-conforming with the XSD and a warning message being displayed if the modified document is non-conforming; and

an authoring platform that publishes the modified document to the display module communicatively coupled to the authoring platform, the display module providing the source content as a web page via the web-based interface, the modified document being displayed as it would look if the modified document were to be published as-is.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the authoring platform is communicatively coupled with the review module, the authoring platform receives the modified document from the review module and converts the modified document back to read-only file permission.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the authoring platform stores the modified document in a storage media communicatively coupled with the authoring platform.

14. The system according to claim 11, wherein the display module provides the modified document to the web-based interface as a web page.

15. The system according to claim 11, wherein the review module further comprises a web-based extensible markup language editor.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein the web-based extensible markup language editor receives modification of the source content from at least one of a plurality of client nodes via the web-based interface, wherein the web-based extensible markup language editor is associated with the web-based interface.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein the review module saves the modification of the source content of the document as tentative changes until the review module receives permission to incorporate the modification from at least one of the plurality of client nodes, the tentative changes being visually distinctive from the source content.

18. The system according to claim 17, wherein the review module (a) receives feedback from the plurality of client nodes responsive to receiving the modification of the source content of the document;

and (b) at least one of permits and rejects incorporation of the modification of the source content into the document based upon the feedback.

19. The system according to claim 11, wherein the review module further includes a validation module that validates the received tentative modifications before the review module incorporates the tentative modifications into the document.

20. The system according to claim 19, wherein the validation module applies an extensible markup language schema definition to the received tentative modifications and rejects the received tentative modifications if the received tentative modifications do not conform to the extensible markup language schema definition.

21. A non-transitory computer readable storage media having a computer program embodied thereon, the computer program executable by a processor in a computing system to perform a method for controlling review of a document, the method comprising:

for each of a plurality of document reviewers;

receiving a request to review the document;

responsive to the request, retrieving the document, the document having a read-only access file permission;

converting the document to read-write access file permission such that its source content is modifiable;

applying a document review template to the document, the document review template comprising a limited subset of review functionalities based upon the technical sophistication of a document reviewer of the plurality of document reviewers;

receiving modifications of the source content of the document;

applying, by a document editor, an XML schema definition (XSD) to the source content;

comparing the modifications to the XSD for consistency and formatting, rejecting the modifications if non-conforming with the XSD;

displaying a warning message if the modifications are non-conforming;

transmitting the modifications to a plurality of client nodes;

receiving crowdsourced feedback to the modifications from the plurality of client nodes;

creating a modified document based on the modifications and the crowdsourced feedback, the modified document being displayed via a web-based interface; and

providing the modified document in a displayable format via a web based interface, the providing the modified document in a displayable format including publishing the document as a web page accessible via the web-based interface.