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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2007
Bharat Veer Bedi, Portsmouth, GB;
Marc Stanley Carter, Bournemouth, GB;
Martin J. Gale, Hampshire, GB;
Lucas William Partridge, Southampton, GB;
Andrew James Stanford-clark, Isle of Wight, GB;
Bharat Veer Bedi, Portsmouth, GB;
Marc Stanley Carter, Bournemouth, GB;
Martin J. Gale, Hampshire, GB;
Lucas William Partridge, Southampton, GB;
Andrew James Stanford-Clark, Isle of Wight, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for collaborative editing of a document by an author of the document and reviewers. Program code receives from the author an identification of selected portions of the document and receives from the author: comments created by the author and an identification of at least one reviewer to which each comment is directed. The selected portions and the comments are associated with each other on a one-to-one basis. Each comment pertains to content of the selected portion that each comment is associated with. The program code parses the received comments, and utilizes the identification of the at least one reviewer to which each comment is directed, to generate a list of comments specifying for each comment the at least one reviewer to which each comment is directed. The program code makes available to each reviewer the comments on the list of comments directed to each reviewer.