US 9,430,454 B2 · Real-time document sharing and editing

Abstract

Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for real-time document sharing and editing. In one aspect, a method includes comparing a first user's and a second user's changes to a document, the document being edited by the first user and the second user concurrently; and notifying the first user of a conflicting change and content of any conflicting change to the document made by the first user but not Made to the document because of the conflicting change. In another aspect, a method includes recording a saved position of a cursor of a user editing a client-side copy of a document; receiving an update to the document and generating an updated client-side copy of the document; using the saved position to determine an updated position of the cursor; and displaying to the user the updated client-side copy of the document with the cursor displayed at the updated position.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for real-time document sharing and editing, comprising:

recording a count of one or more tags being traversed to reach a position of a cursor of a user editing a copy of a document;
recording a position of the cursor;
receiving an update to the copy of the document from a server;
generating an updated copy of the document;
using the position of the cursor and the count of the one or more tags to determine an updated position of the cursor in the updated copy of the document;
recording one or more types of the one or more tags being traversed to reach the position of the cursor;
and
displaying to the user the updated copy of the document with the cursor displayed at the updated position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Real-time document sharing and editing

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Real-time document sharing and editing

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