US 2016/0239488 A1Published application

Electronic document sharing with asynchronous processing on indirect changes

AssigneeWorkiva Inc.

InventorsJason Aguilon, Andrew Allen, MacLeod Broad, Josh Hayes-Sheen, Dustin Hiatt, Robert A. Kluin, Beau D. Lyddon, Erik Petersen, Dustin Lessard

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Abstract

A method for sharing changes to an electronic document is described. A share request is received, at a first computing device, that indicates a change to a shared element of the electronic document that is directly changed by a user. A first update set of elements that should be updated based on the change is determined by the first computing device, the first update set including the shared element and one or more elements not directly changed by the user. For each element of the first update set, the first computing device selects between a second update set and a third update set based on a respective dependency relationship with the shared element. Elements of the first update set are associated with the corresponding selected update set. A synchronous update for the second update set and an asynchronous update for the third update set are performed.

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Dependent claims

A method for sharing changes to an electronic document in a distributed networked environment, the method comprising:

receiving, at a first computing device of the distributed networked environment, a share request that indicates a change to a shared element of a section of the electronic document that is directly changed by a user of the electronic document;
determining, by the first computing device, a first update set of elements to be updated based on the change to the shared element, the first update set including at least the shared element and one or more elements not directly changed by the user;
dividing, by the first computing device, elements of the first update set into a second update set and a third update set, wherein the second update set comprises at least the shared element, and the third update set comprises one or more elements of the first update set that are not directly changed by the user and not in the section of the electronic document;
providing, by the first computing device to a second computing device, a first user interface through which the share request is received and the section of the electronic document is displayed;
disabling one or more user interface functionality features of the first user interface in response to the share request;
updating, by a first set of computing devices, elements of the second update set based on the change to the shared element while the one or more user interface functionality features of the first user interface are disabled;
enabling at least a portion of the one or more user interface functionality features of the first user interface in response to completion of the update of the elements of the second update set;
and
updating, by a second set of computing devices, elements of the third update set based on the change to the shared element after enabling at least the portion of the one or more user interface functionality features of the first user interface.

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A first computing device of a distributed networked environment for sharing changes to an electronic document, the first computing device comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable memory;
a hardware processor that:
receives a share request that indicates a change to a shared element of a section of the electronic document that is directly changed by a user of the electronic document;
determines a first update set of elements to be updated based on the change to the shared element, the first update set including at least the shared element and one or more elements not directly changed by the user;
divides elements of the first update set into a second update set and a third update set, wherein the second update set comprises at least the shared element, and the third update set comprises one or more elements of the first update set that are not directly changed by the user and not in the section of the electronic document;
provides, to a second computing device, a first user interface through which the share request is received and the section of the electronic document is displayed;
disables one or more user interface functionality features of the first user interface in response to the share request;
initiates an update of elements of the second update set based on the change to the shared element while the one or more user interface functionality features of the first user interface are disabled;
enables at least a portion of the one or more user interface functionality features of the first user interface in response to completion of the update of the elements of the second update set;
and
initiates an update of elements of the third update set based on the change to the shard element after enabling at least the portion of the one or more user interface functionality features of the first user interface.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.