Entity-based content change management within a document content management system

Abstract

A method of providing for review of changes within documents involves storing an entity-specific weight value for each of multiple sections of a document, receiving an indication that changes have thereafter been made to one or more sections of the document, determining a change value indicative of a quantity of changes made within each section of the document, separately for at least each entity that is not the one that made the changes, calculating an entity-specific provenance value by multiplying the change value within each section by the assigned entity-specific weight value for each section, to produce an entity-specific section value for each section, and summing the entity-specific section values. The method further involves comparing the entity-specific provenance value against the respective entity's stored review threshold value, and when an entity-specific provenance value satisfies an entity's review threshold value, constructing and sending a review notification to that entity.