Integration and presentation of current and historic versions of document and annotations thereon
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJordi Albornoz, Brian Cragun, Lee Feigenbaum, Sean Martin
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Abstract
A method and system for displaying annotations is provided. The method includes displaying current data to a user through a GUI, displaying at least one of current and historic annotations to a user through the GUI, providing a user selectable link between the historic annotations and historic data associated with the historic annotation, and displaying the historic data to the user through the GUI when the user selectable link is activated by the user.
Claims20
A method for displaying annotations, comprising:
- displaying current data to a user through a GUI;
- displaying at least one of current and historic annotations to a user through the GUI;
- providing a user selectable link between the historic annotations and historic data associated with the historic annotation;
- and
- displaying the historic data to the user through the GUI when the user selectable link is activated by the user.
A computer readable medium containing a program which, when executed, performs an operation, comprising:
- displaying current data to a user through a GUI;
- displaying at least one of a current annotation and a historic annotation to the user through the GUI;
- displaying a user selectable link to the user, wherein the user selectable link is associated with historic data used to generate the historic annotation;
- and
- displaying the historic data through the GUI when the user selects the user selectable link associated with the historic data.
An annotation system, comprising:
- an annotation store module configured to store annotations;
- an application data module configured to store application data;
- an annotation manager in communication with the annotation store module and the application data module;
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- at least one user interface,
- wherein the annotation manager is configured to conduct a method comprising:
- receiving annotations related to a current document and store the received annotation in the annotation store;
- and
- displaying current and historic annotations related to the current document and historic documents through the user interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.