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Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 10, 2013
Applicant:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Eran Megiddo, Redmond, WA (US);

David Rasmussen, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/163 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/163 (2013.01); G06Q 10/101 (2013.01);
Abstract

Real-time co-authoring and support for the collaborative process is enabled by making it easy to initiate a collaborative document, to invite the proper people into the process, to collect existing artifacts, thoughts, and research, and then to divide and track the work to completion across a collaborating group. Monitored changes, comments, and similar input by the collaborating authors may be presented on demand or automatically to each author based on changes and/or comments that affect a particular author, that author's portion of collaborated content, type of changes/comments, or similar criteria Real-time or sequential communication such as email, text messaging, and video chat, may be enabled to further optimize the collaboration process.


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