Tracking changes in collaborative authoring environment
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsEran Megiddo, David Rasmussen
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Abstract
Change tracking and collaborative communication are provided in authoring content in a collaborative environment. Monitored changes, comments, and similar input by the collaborating authors may be presented on demand or automatically to each author based on changes and/or comments that affect a particular author, that author's portion of collaborated content, type of changes/comments, or similar criteria. Change and/or comments notification may be provided in a complementary user interface of the collaborative authoring application or through a separate communication application such as email or text messaging.
Claims20
A method executed in a computing device for tracking changes in a collaborative authoring environment, the method comprising:
- detecting a creation of collaborative content;
- receiving modifications to the collaborative content;
- receiving a request to view the modifications to the collaborative content;
- displaying a summary of the modifications to the collaborative content;
- presenting a subset of the modifications to an author who is viewing the collaborative content based on one or more of a change or a comment that affects the author, the author's portion of the collaborative content, and a type of a change or a comment;
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- enabling the author to communicate with a co-author by one or more of an addition of a note to the subset of the modifications and an addition of a comment to the subset of the modifications.
A computing device for tracing changes in a collaborative authoring environment, the computing device comprising:
- a memory;
- a processor coupled to the memory, the processor executing a collaborative authoring application, wherein the collaborative authoring application is further configured to:
- detect a creation of collaborative content, wherein the collaborative content includes one or more of textual content, an image, a graphic, an embedded audio object, and an embedded video object;
- receive modifications to the collaborative content;
- receive a request to view the modifications to the collaborative content;
- display a summary of the modifications to the collaborative content on a collaborative authoring user interface (UI);
- display a subset of the modifications to an author who is viewing the collaborative content based on one or more of a change or a comment that affects the author, the author's portion of the collaborative content, and a type of a change or a comment;
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- enable the author to communicate with a co-author by one or more of an addition of a note to the subset of the modifications and an addition of a comment to the subset of the modifications.
A computer-readable memory device with instructions stored thereon for tracking changes in a collaborative authoring environment, the instructions comprising:
- detecting a creation of collaborative content, wherein the collaborative content includes one or more of textural content, an image, a graphic, an embedded audio object, and an embedded video object;
- receiving modifications to the collaborative content;
- receiving a request to view the modifications to the collaborative content;
- displaying a summary of the modifications to the collaborative content on a collaborative authoring user interface (UI);
- in response to detecting a selection of a subset of the modifications, displaying details associated with the subset of the modifications, wherein the details include one or more of an author of the subset of the modifications, a time stamp associated with the creation of the subset of the modifications, and a portion of the collaborative content associated with the subset of the modifications;
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- enabling an author who is viewing the subset of the modifications to communicate with a co-author by one or more of an addition of a note to the subset of the modifications and an addition of a comment to the subset of the modifications.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.