METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING NEAR REAL TIME COLLABORATION ON AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT THROUGH A PLURALITY OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS

摘要

A method for electronic document collaboration , and provides a system and devices. According to this method , the data structure may be maintained in the system each computer involved in the session to co- express the content of the shared document . If on one of the computer system to change the article for receiving a user input , and updates the data structure to reflect that change . In response to the change , the change in the data structure , periodically identified , and collected as a revision to identify changes as a result of the editing made in the data structure only obtained after the previous edition . Packaged in a revision to be sent to each participant sharing session. Merge revision to a copy of the data structures stored in computer systems involved .