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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Samuel Gavin Smyth, Huntingdon, GB;
Andrew Fitzgibbon, Cambridge, GB;
Siân Elizabeth Lindley, Cambridge, GB;
Richard Malcolm Banks, Egham, GB;
Darren Keith Edge, Cambridge, GB;
Advait Sarkar, Cambridge, GB;
Olivia Evelyn Mary Fletcher Vane, Cambridge, GB;
Michael William Armstrong, Cambridge, GB;
Ewa Luger, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure relates to computer-implemented management of first and second electronic documents, each of containing a sequence of content components. A user interface displays a first sequence of display elements to represent the first electronic document, and a second sequence of display elements to represent the second electronic document. Each of the display elements in each of the displayed sequences represents an individual content component or group of content components of the electronic document represented by that sequence. The first and second sequences are displayed alongside each other, with their respective display elements in an initial alignment, to allow a side-by-side comparison of the electronic documents. The user can automatically realign the sequences to a selected content component.