UTILIZING SERVER PRE-PROCESSING TO DEPLOY RENDITIONS OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS IN A COMPUTER NETWORK

• US 20100312822A1
• Filed: 06/03/2009
• Published: 12/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Brown, Christopher J., Lange, Donovan P., Kapoor, Sugandha S., Howell, Gareth A., Zhu, Zhenjun
• Granted Patent: US 10,198,523 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Embodiments are provided for utilizing server pre-processing to deploy static renditions of electronic documents in a computer network. An electronic document may be published from a client computer to a first server computer in the computer network. During publication, the first server computer may create a static rendition of the electronic document and a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer. The first server computer may store the static rendition of the electronic document and the viewing application on a second server computer for delivery to the client computer. Other embodiments may also include receiving, at the first server computer, a request to make revisions to the electronic document and sending a dynamic version of the electronic document from the first server computer to the client for making the revisions to the electronic document.

Claims

1. A method of utilizing server pre-processing to deploy static renditions of electronic documents in a computer network, comprising:

initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network;

during publication of the electronic document, creating at a first server computer;

a static rendition of the electronic document; and

a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer in the computer network; and

storing the static rendition of the electronic document and the viewing application on a second server computer for delivery to the client computer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network comprises initiating, from the client computer, publication of the electronic document to the first server computer in the computer network.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein creating a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer comprises creating a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document in at least one of a full screen window generated in a web browser on the client computer and a web browser window on the client computer.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein creating a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer comprises creating a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document as an embedded object in a web page viewable in a web browser on the client computer.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein creating a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer comprises creating a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document in a preview window generated by an application program on the client computer.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein initiating, from the client computer, publication of the electronic document to the first server computer comprises receiving, at the first server computer, a request to publish an electronic document.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network comprises automatically initiating, from the first server computer, publication of the electronic document to the first server computer when a network traffic load exceeds a threshold.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network comprises initiating publication of at least one of a word processing application document, a presentation application document, and a spreadsheet application document to the first server computer.

9. A method of utilizing server pre-processing to deploy static renditions of electronic documents in a computer network, comprising:

initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network;

during publication of the electronic document, creating at a first server computer;

a static rendition of the electronic document; and

a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer;

storing the static rendition of the electronic document and the viewing application on a second server computer for delivery to the client computer;

receiving, at the first server computer, a request to make revisions to the electronic document from the client computer; and

sending a dynamic version of the electronic document from the first server computer to the client computer for making the revisions to the electronic document, wherein the dynamic version of the electronic document is downloaded as a background process at the client computer while the static rendition of the electronic document is being viewed at the client computer.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

initiating, from the first server computer, publication of a revised dynamic version of the electronic document to the first server computer;

creating a static rendition of the revised dynamic version of the electronic document at the first server computer; and

storing the static rendition of the revised dynamic version of the electronic document on the second server computer for delivery to the client computer.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein creating a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer comprises creating a viewing application for presenting the static rendition of the electronic document as appearing to be the same as the dynamic version of the electronic document.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein creating a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer comprises creating a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document in a full screen window generated in a web browser on the client computer.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network comprises receiving, at the first server computer, a request from the client computer to publish the electronic document.

14. The method of claim 9, initiating publication of an electronic document stored on a client computer in the computer network comprises automatically initiating, from the first server computer, publication of the electronic document to the first server computer when a network traffic load exceeds a threshold.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein initiating publication of an electronic stored on a client computer in the computer network comprises initiating publication of a note-taking application document to the first server computer.

16. A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer executable instructions which, when executed on a computer, will cause the computer to perform a method of utilizing server pre-processing to deploy static renditions of electronic documents in a computer network, comprising:

receiving a static rendition of an electronic document and a dynamic version of the electronic document at a server computer from a client computer, wherein the static rendition of the electronic document is created at the client computer;

receiving, at the server computer, revisions to the dynamic version of the electronic document from the client computer; and

creating, at the first server computer, a static rendition of the revised dynamic electronic document received from the client computer.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, receiving a static rendition of an electronic document and a dynamic version of the electronic document at a server computer from a client computer comprises receiving a static rendition of a word processing application document and a dynamic rendition of the word processing application document.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, receiving a static rendition of an electronic document and a dynamic version of the electronic document at a server computer from a client computer comprises receiving a static rendition of a presentation application document and a dynamic rendition of the presentation application document.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, receiving a static rendition of an electronic document and a dynamic version of the electronic document at a server computer from a client computer comprises receiving a static rendition of a spreadsheet application document and a dynamic rendition of the spreadsheet application document.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, receiving a static rendition of an electronic document and a dynamic version of the electronic document at a server computer from a client computer comprises receiving a static rendition of a note-taking application document and a dynamic rendition of the note-taking application document.