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Andrew Quinn

Marcin Sawicki

Ethan Joseph Bernstein

Noah Benjamin Edelstein

Hai Liu

Hani Saliba

Anne M Archambault

Sean Erik McAteer

William Kennedy

Mandira Virmani

Marc A Olson

Server-based collaboration is initiated by an email. When the user creates the email message with attachments, a collaboration website is provisioned. The collaboration website allows collaborations on the attached documents by the recipients of the message. The ease of collaboration with email and the advantages of the collaboration server are thus both available to the user.

Method to initiate server based collaboration on e-mail attachments

Method to initiate server based collaboration on E-mail attachments

An edit command delegation (ECD) utility that provides a user with the ability to edit an electronic file in a creator application program while the electronic file is open in a separate viewing application program operable only for viewing the electronic file. In response to a user input to edit the electronic file, the ECD utility opens the electronic file and reads an application identification tag contained within the content of the electronic file. The application identification tag identifies a creator application program, which was used to create the electronic file and is operable for editing the content data of the electronic file. Once the ECD utility reads the application identification tag, the ECD launches the creator application program. The ECD utility then causes the creator application program to open the electronic file. Once the electronic file is open, the content data is displayed in a window controlled by the creator application program to allow the user to edit the content data.

Edit command delegation program for editing electronic files

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