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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2018
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Mark Delaney, Raleigh, NC (US);
Robert H. Grant, Atlanta, GA (US);
Jonathan Dunne, Dungarvan, IE;
Charlotte Hutchinson, Surrey, GB;
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/24 (2006.01); G06F 40/166 (2020.01); G06F 40/289 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/166 (2020.01); G06F 40/289 (2020.01);
Abstract
Embodiments for phased collaborative editing by a processor. A region tag of phased input may be assigned to one or more document regions of a collaborative document along with a list of users enabled to input data to the one or more document regions according to the region tag. A concealed region of the one or more document regions may be revealed to one or more users in the list of users upon content input by a user matching content of the concealed region.