MERGING VERSIONS OF DOCUMENTS USING MULTIPLE MASTERS

Patent №

US 7,899,883

Granted

2011-03-01

Filed 2008

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

3

nlp · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12139438

Tools and techniques are described for merging versions of documents using multiple masters. These tools may provide methods that include syncing a first peer system with at least a second peer system, with the first and second peer systems receiving respective instances of a document for collaborative editing. The first and second peer systems may maintain respective version histories associated with the document, with these version histories capturing and storing revisions occurring locally at the first and second peer systems. The first and second peer systems may exchange version histories, and merge these version histories.

AI classification

Planning0.98
AI hardware0.96
Natural language0.62
Knowledge representation0.12
Evolutionary computation0.03
Machine learning0.01
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 212160142

Assignors

RASMUSSEN, DAVID JOHN, CLARKE, SIMON P, BAER, PETER P

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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