TRACKING CHANGES IN COLLABORATIVE AUTHORING ENVIRONMENT

摘要

Change tracking and collaborative communication are provided in authoring content in a collaborative environment. 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. Change and/or comments notification may be provided in a complementary user interface of the collaborative authoring application or through a separate communication application such as email or text messaging.

主权项

1. A method executed in a computing device for tracking changes in a collaborative authoring environment, the method comprising:
detecting a creation of collaborative content; receiving modifications to the collaborative content; receiving a request to view the modifications to the collaborative content; displaying a summary of the modifications to the collaborative content; presenting a subset of the modifications to an author who is viewing the collaborative content based on one or more of a change or a comment that affects the author, the author's portion of the collaborative content, and a type of a change or a comment; and enabling the author to communicate with a co-author by one or more of an addition of a note to the subset of the modifications and an addition of a comment to the subset of the modifications.