Web-based embeddable collaborative workspace

Abstract

Freeform input is not native to several application or document types, but is desired by users as an input mode, especially for collaboration. Systems and methods are therefore provided to enable theinsertion of an electronic collaboration workspace that accepts and stores freeform input for use as an object embeddable in various documents. An external host application provides the functionalities needed for freeform input, and the inputs may be committed to the document or stored as a separate document which may be referenced and accessed by multiple users for purposes of collaboration.

Description

Background technique [0001] User interaction with websites, as opposed to passive viewing of hosted content, is referred to as "Web 2.0" and includes social media sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, sites featuring comment sections or forums, and more. Web 2.0 sites often use embedded rich text boxes (RTB) with various formatting controls (e.g., graphical user interface (GUI) controls, hypertext markup language (HTML), or proprietary tags) to enter Text and entering "enrichment" (ie, formatting information for text and non-text objects) to text. For entering content other than text within a single box (e.g., a second text box within a first text box, text columns, images, videos, hyperlinks, other non-text objects), various dialogs can be provided to the user to upload Those content items, or users can link to non-text items via tags within the text (eg, as hyperlinks or anchor objects). However, RTB does not allow for free-form interaction or collaboration, and is not...

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Problems solved by technology

However, providing cloud-based software is computationally expensive (data is sent to the provider server and interpreted twice) and cloud-based software is accessed at a provider-specific website or portal; it is not embeddable at In Web 2.0 UX on a 3rd party webpage or in an application, this requires the user to shift focus between multiple applications, which further requires expending computational and memory resources for multiple applications

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