Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Andrew Richard Simonds

Jonathan Bailor

Mark Rolland Knight

Brian M Jones

Simon Clarke

Ethan Joseph Bernstein

Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose

Christopher James Antos

Edgar Mark Sunderland

David Benjamin Robins

Mark A Lawrence

Timothy J Lytle

Brian Michael Jones

Jonathan B Bailor

Jonathan Beckett Bailor

Simon Peter Clarke

A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user.

Collaborative authoring

A system is presented for structured coauthoring of a document, the system comprising a server. The server includes one or more documents organized into sections, a document permissions module that stores user access permissions for each section of a document, a document update processing module that processes requests from a user to share document updates with other users and that processes requests from a user to receive document updates from other users and a document rendering module that renders a document for display on a client so that sections of the document are updated with shared document updates made by users. The user access permissions determine the extent to which a user can modify each section of the document.

Structured coauthoring

Client side locking

Various distributed client side printing methods and systems are described. In at least some embodiments, printer control and the job handling functions are bifurcated or separated by allowing jobs, drivers, settings and the like to be controlled by the print server or some other entity, while allowing clients to communicate jobs directly to a printer. The various embodiments can improve server performance by performing rendering and maintaining rendered data on the client side, and not communicating the rendered data to the server, while at the same time, allowing print servers to control the printer.

Distributed client side printing methods and systems

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Andrew Richard Simonds