Enabling users to redact portions of a document
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsDean Racovolis, Douglas Turner
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Abstract
Systems and methods for redacting portions of a document resulting in one or more versions of the document that show to readers the portions of the document that have been redacted. At least one of these one or more versions may have the content of the redacted portions encrypted and/or actually removed and replaced with a sort of filler (e.g., to resemble a blacked out portion of a paper copy). At least one other version may show to users the actual content that has been redacted. This latter version may be retained for users privy to the content (i.e., information) of the redacted portions, so that they know what content was redacted, whereas versions with the content removed or encrypted may be provided to those not privy to the content.
Claims20
A system for redacting one or more portions of a document, the system comprising:
- a user interface enabling a user to select, from a first version of the document, a portion of the document, and to specify to redact the selected portion from the document;
- and
- a redaction controller to control, in response to the user specifying to redact the selected portion, a modifying of the selected portion in one or more versions of the document so that, for each of one or more users, when at least one of the one or more versions is displayed, content of the selected portion in the at least one version is not visible to the user and is shown as being redacted.
A computer program product comprising:
- a computer-readable medium;
- and
- computer-readable signals, stored on the computer-readable medium, that define instructions that, as a result of being executed by a computer, control the computer to perform a process of redacting one or more portions of a document, the process comprising acts of:
- (A) enabling a user to select, from a first version of the document, a portion of the document, and to specify to redact the selected portion from the document;
- and
- (B) in response to the user specifying to redact the selected portion, modifying the selected portion in one or more versions of the document so that, for each of one or more users, when at least one of the one or more versions of the document is displayed, content of the selected portion in the at least one version is not visible to the user and is shown as being redacted.
A method of redacting one or more portions of a document, the method comprising computer-implemented acts of:
- (A) selecting, from a first version of the document, a portion of the document;
- and
- (B) specifying to redact the selected portion from the document, in response to which, in one or more versions of the document, the selected portion is modified such that, for each of one or more users, when at least one of the one or more versions of the document is displayed, content of the selected portion in the at least one version is not visible to the user and shown as being redacted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.