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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014

Filed:

Jul. 06, 2011
Applicant:

Iain Huxley, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventor:

Iain Huxley, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods, systems and computer readable medium with program instructions for sharing documents with other users in an online document sharing session include identifying a set of documents to share with viewing users at a document sharing website. The set of documents may have been uploaded onto the document sharing website by a sharing user and selected for sharing in an online document sharing session. One or more viewing users are selected for sharing the documents of the online document sharing session and access information to access the identified documents are provided. The access provides uniform level of control to both the viewing users and the sharing user so as to interact and manage the documents in the online document sharing session. The viewing users and the sharing user access, view and interact with the documents equally and the interactions are gathered and propagated to all the viewing the sharing users in substantial real-time.


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