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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2002
Arnold Schaeffer, Belmont, CA (US);
David R. Anderson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jack H. Palevich, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arnold Schaeffer, Belmont, CA (US);
David R. Anderson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jack H. Palevich, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A collaboration system synchronizes an application or applications running on one or more computer systems. Each of the applications has a local data copy and the applications commence operation by creating consistent local copies from a common third copy. The consistency is maintained by distributing address space independent selections and commands to each application as they are entered at a controlling system. The selections and commands are generated by directly manipulating a presentation of each local data copy. When a selection and command arrive at a destination, the selection is used to find and selection the data and the command is applied to the data located by the selection.