Real-time document sharing and editing

Patent №

US 8,453,052

Granted

2013-05-28

Filed 2006

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11506181

Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for real-time document sharing and editing. In one aspect, a method includes comparing a first user's and a second user's changes to a document, the document being edited by the first user and the second user concurrently; and notifying the first user of a conflicting change and content of any conflicting change to the document made by the first user but not made to the document because of the conflicting change. In another aspect, a method includes recording a saved position of a cursor of a user editing a client-side copy of a document; receiving an update to the document and generating an updated client-side copy of the document; using the saved position to determine an updated position of the cursor; and displaying to the user the updated client-side copy of the document with the cursor displayed at the updated position.

PlanningG06F 40/197G06F 40/166G06F 40/194G06Q 10/101G06F 16/95

AI classification

Planning0.96
AI hardware0.48
Natural language0.33
Evolutionary computation0.31
Knowledge representation0.18
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 184060873

Assignors

NEWMAN, STEVE, SCHILLACE, SAM, CARPENTER, CLAUDIA

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

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