System and method for display of document comparisons on a remote device
AssigneeWorkshare, Ltd.
InventorRobin Glover
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Abstract
A system utilizing a remote, client device for displaying comparison of two versions of a document that utilizes a server to obtain two versions of the document and perform the comparison, and transmit back to the remote device a comparison output data in a format that utilizes an application operating on the remote device to display the comparison output result, where the remote device receives and utilizes static and dynamic resources to display the comparison output and permit a user operating the remote device to interact with the displayed comparison output.
Claims29
A computer system for displaying on remote client device a comparison generated on a server of a first and a second version of a document embodied as two respective data files comprising:
- a server comprised of a comparison engine component adapted by logic to generate a dynamic resource data, comprised of at least one comparison output data representing a corresponding at least one change between the first and second version of the document, and at least one corresponding data representing a change type associated with an operation of the corresponding at least one change and a change category associated with a purpose of the corresponding at least one change, the dynamic resource data generated using a predetermined comparison data organization scheme;
- a client device, comprised of a display, remotely connected to the server via a data network, the client device adapted by logic to display the dynamic resource data by:
- (i) using an application operating on the client device to load a static resource data usable for all comparisons being displayed by the application in order to control the appearance of the display of dynamic resource data received from the server on the client device in dependence on the loaded static resource data,
- (ii) receiving from the server the dynamic resource data,
- (iii) using the application to use the static resource data and dynamic resource data to present on the display the at least one data representing the corresponding at least one change between the first and second version of the document with a displayed visual indication of the corresponding change type, where the static resource data is used by the application to generate the displayed visual indication in dependence on the change type data comprising the dynamic resource data, and
- (iv) enabling the filtering on the display of one or more changes associated with at least one of a corresponding change type or a corresponding change category.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.