Jive Software, Inc.

Roy Antebi

Oudi Antebi

Reem Bensimhon

Lev Waisberg

Arthur Teplitzki

Sagi Eliyahu

Amir Leshem

Ran Hanoch Meiteles

A method and a device are disclosed including plug-in software components that are integrated with document processing software suites. The plug-in software components provide a set of integrated interfaces for collaborative document processing in conjunction with multiple remote file, data, and application service providers. The set of interfaces enable coauthoring a document, document merging, discovering and displaying context-sensitive metadata on a software dashboard based on permissions associated with the metadata and/or a client computing device, caching, symmetric distributed document merge with the multiple service providers, and integrated search and insertion of multimedia data in documents, among others. The documents typically include, but are not limited to formatted text documents, spreadsheet documents, and slide presentation documents.

Distributed document co-authoring and processing

A method and a device are disclosed including an integrated connection between a Social Business Network (SBN) and a webpage configured to provide context-based relevant information about content and/or metadata associated with the webpage. A SBN provides business-oriented information in a social networking environment. In some embodiments, SBN connection automatically provides information about the webpage's owner, or is used used or to start a conversation with another user. In still other embodiments, the SBN connection may retrieve information from external sources such as Facebook&#xae;, web, and databases associated with the SBN, including prior relevant conversations, project information, participant information, articles, historical data, and the like. In various embodiments, the SBN connection is in the form of a browser plugin component, which may be enhanced by custom software cartridges developed by customers of SBN to dynamically alter the behavior or add functionality to the SBN plugin component.

Integrated context-driven information search and interaction

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Roy Antebi