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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:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2004
Jordi Albornoz, Cambridge, MA (US);
Brian J. Cragun, Rochester, MN (US);
Lee D. Feigenbaum, Brookline, MA (US);
Kyle L. Henderson, Mantorville, MN (US);
Robert R. Nelson, Rochester, MN (US);
Cale T. Rath, Byron, MN (US);
Jordi Albornoz, Cambridge, MA (US);
Brian J. Cragun, Rochester, MN (US);
Lee D. Feigenbaum, Brookline, MA (US);
Kyle L. Henderson, Mantorville, MN (US);
Robert R. Nelson, Rochester, MN (US);
Cale T. Rath, Byron, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for maintaining annotations for changing source documents are provided. For some embodiments, an annotation system may support multiple policies, with each policy dictating how (or if) an annotation created for a version of a source document should be applied to subsequent versions of the source document. For some embodiments, a user creating an annotation may select from a group of available policies to be applied to the annotation.