Synchronizing online document edits
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
- Publication Date
- 2012-05-02
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
Description
technical field
[0001] The present invention relates to synchronous operations, and more particularly to synchronous online document editing. Background technique
[0002] Web applications provide various services and data to users through the network. Data is collected, processed and stored in various locations. The web application retrieves this data, formats it for presentation, and provides it to the browsing application on the client device for presentation of the web page. Certain web pages may be static where this data is non-interactive. Other web pages may provide some interactivity, such as additional information, through links or web module-based activations. In general, however, web pages present data in a format and amount determined by the author of the web page.
[0003] Online document applications provide users with document editing and viewing capabilities that until recently were limited to the domain of thick client applications. Technological advanc...