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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2001
Alan Ramaley, Seattle, WA (US);
Valerie Serdy, Sammamish, WA (US);
Sean Erik Mcateer, Seattle, WA (US);
Suresh Tharamal, Sammamish, WA (US);
Thomas Olsen, Issaquah, WA (US);
Noah Edelstein, Seattle, WA (US);
Alan Ramaley, Seattle, WA (US);
Valerie Serdy, Sammamish, WA (US);
Sean Erik McAteer, Seattle, WA (US);
Suresh Tharamal, Sammamish, WA (US);
Thomas Olsen, Issaquah, WA (US);
Noah Edelstein, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An automated review cycle automatically merges changes in a reviewed document into an original document and by provides reviewing tools on a context-sensitive basis. The automated review cycle can operate within the environments of a document management system, a link-based document collaboration system (e.g., common server), or an attachment-based collaboration system. By generating a review cycle identification number (RCID) and by maintaining other information about the review cycle in a configuration file, an original author and a reviewer of a document can be distinguished and can be provided the appropriate prompts and tools to facilitate the document review process.