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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRamakrishnan Rajamony, Freeman Leigh Rawson III
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A system and method in which two or more parties are enabled to use a ubiquitous application such as a web browser in conjunction with a specially configured server to facilitate collaborative efforts on a document. A browser loaded on a first data processing system accesses a specified web page located on a server that contains an applet tag which transfers an event applet to the first data processing system. A second browser operating on a second data processing system accesses the same web page and thereby transfers a copy of the event applet to the second system. In a symmetric implementation, both event applets are configured to monitor the browser for events. If an event is detected by one of the browsers, it communicates the detected event to a coordinating application residing on the server. When the coordinating application monitor receives an event message from one of the browsers, it communicates the event to the other browser via the event applet. The event applet on the other browser then replicates the event on its browser such that any event occurring on the first browser occurs on the second browser. The invention further contemplates a non-symmetric implementation in which specified browsers are designated as masters while others are designated as workers. In this implementation, events that occur on master browsers are reflected (duplicated) on the worker browsers, but not vice versa.
A method of document collaboration in a networked data processing system, comprising:
A data processing network, comprising:
A network server, comprising:
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