GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FACILITATING SHARING AND COLLABORATIVE EDITING OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS

摘要

An end user application running on a computer, for the purpose of collaborative modification of shared electronic documents, is configured to provide a graphical user interface that facilitates interactively and collaboratively modifying an electronic document. This graphical user interface includes a graphical element that conveys to an end user both sharing status information and editing status information for the currently accessed electronic document. The graphical element can take any of a number of different forms, such that each different form represents a different combination of the current sharing state and current co-authoring state of the currently accessed electronic document. Through input devices of the end user computer, an end user can manipulate this graphical element. In response to certain manipulations of the graphical element, the end user computer is configured to present further detailed information about such status and to receive further inputs from a user to change such status.

主权项

1. A computer, comprising:
a network interface configured to connect the computer to computer network, the computer network being connected to a shared storage system, the shared storage system comprising a file system configured to store a plurality of electronic documents and to make the plurality of electronic documents available to a plurality of users, the shared storage system further comprising a collaboration system configured to manage coauthoring of an electronic document in the file system by a plurality of end users; and a processing system comprising one or more processing units and storage, the storage comprising computer program code that, when executed by the processing system, configures the processing system to be comprising: an application configured to process user input to modify an electronic document stored in the shared storage system, the application comprising a graphical user interface including a graphical element representing sharing status and co-authoring status of the electronic document, the application being further configured to obtain the sharing status of the electronic document from the file system and to obtain the co-authoring status of the electronic document from the collaboration system.