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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ye Qing Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Zhen Hong Ding, Shanghai, CN;
Chang Lei, Shanghai, CN;
Wen Juan Nie, Zhe Jiang, CN;
Yi-Hsiu Wei, Austin, TX (US);
Ting Wu, Shanghai, CN;
Zhao Yang, Shanghai, CN;
Chao Zheng, Shanghai, CN;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system from updating a document to include revisions made by multiple parties that includes an indexing module for building relationships between atom repositories and source files, and a mapping module builds a relationship between multiple atom repositories produced by indexing module that are associated with a same source file family. The system also includes an atom controlling module for controlling atom adding and atom splitting in the multiple atom repository in response to update, insert and delete operations of information units in the source file. The system can also include a synchronizing engine for synchronizing updates from one version of the source file to all versions of the source file in accordance with the atom controlling module that have been made by all users when be viewed by a single user.