METHOD IMPLEMENTED ON A CLIENT COMPUTER TO COMBINE DOCUMENT METADATA ON A CLIENT COMPUTER, COMPUTER DEVICE AND DATA STORAGE MEMORY BY COMPUTER

摘要

method implemented on a client computer to combine document metadata on a client computer, computing device and data storage memory. the present invention relates to a method for combining document metadata on a client computer. a document obtained from a server computer is opened by a user on the client computer. if the document does not include paragraph identifiers, a paragraph identifier is assigned to each paragraph in the document. when the document is opened by a second user on a second client computer, metadata for the document is received from the server computer. a determination is made as to whether the metadata received from the server computer should be combined with the current metadata for the document. when it is determined that the current metadata and metadata received from the server computer must be combined, the paragraph identifiers are adjusted in the document based on the metadata received from the server computer.