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Markup system for shared HTML documents

  • US 6,230,171 B1
  • Filed: 08/29/1998
  • Issued: 05/08/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/29/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A Web-based collaboration system for enabling one or more group participants to annotate a shared hyper-text document utilizing conventional Web browsers, the system comprising:

  • a markup system executing inside a conventional Web browser'"'"'s virtual machine of each of the one or more group participants;

    the markup system including a mechanism for capturing markup events associated with annotations applied to the shared hyper-text document by a group participant, a mechanism for transmitting to other of the one or more group participants the captured markup events, a mechanism for receiving from the other of the one or more group participants markup events associated with annotations applied to the shared hyper-text document, a mechanism for generating corresponding dynamic hyper-text components in response to the markup events captured or received and a mechanism for adding the dynamic hyper-text components generated in response to the markup events captured or received to the shared hyper-text document, wherein the annotations are presented directly on the shared hyper-text document by the conventional Web browsers of the one or more group participants.

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