153 results about "Document sharing" patented technology

Methods and apparatus are provided for establishing a conference based on the presence or preferences (or both) of one or more invitees. The presence of each invitee is evaluated on one or more devices. A media type is selected based on the presence information. User preference information may be evaluated for those invitees who are not currently present on a device. The selected media type for the conference may optionally be required to support the requirements of the conference, such as document sharing or video links. In this manner, the same communication application can trigger conferences of different media types (where the selected media type is most likely to lead to the successful establishment of the conference). In addition, the present invention allows a media type to be selected that will be more likely to lead to the successful establishment of a conference.

Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for real-time document sharing and editing. In one aspect, a method includes comparing a first user's and a second user's changes to a document, the document being edited by the first user and the second user concurrently; and notifying the first user of a conflicting change and content of any conflicting change to the document made by the first user but not made to the document because of the conflicting change. In another aspect, a method includes recording a saved position of a cursor of a user editing a client-side copy of a document; receiving an update to the document and generating an updated client-side copy of the document; using the saved position to determine an updated position of the cursor; and displaying to the user the updated client-side copy of the document with the cursor displayed at the updated position.

Systems and methods for providing an interactive electronic real estate web site. Buyers, sellers and a variety of different service providers are electronically and communicatively connected with each other to facilitate residential and commercial real estate transactions. Through the use of customized online forms, buyers and sellers are guided through the real estate transaction process through the use of a virtual real estate agent. Direct communication in the form of internal messaging and document sharing between buyers and sellers (and service providers) makes the transaction process more efficient and replaces the need for brokers and broker commissions. A timeline approach to the real estate transaction process affords efficiency and realistic expectations to the parties involved, user rewards are used as incentives for buyers and sellers to use preferred service providers.

An internet accessible server permits access management to remote printing devices by remote users. Only users having printing access to a target remote printing device may submit a print job for printing on the target remote printing device. Users having printing access permission are further divided into owner status and user status. Owner status user of a remote printing device may grant or revoke the printing permission of non-owner status users. At least one owner status user is designated a super-owner, and can grant and revoke the owner status of other users. The super-owner user may relinquish its super-owner status to any other user. After submitting a print job for a target printing device, the print job is stored in a storage space on the Internet and is transferred to the target printing device only when the target printing device itself downloads the print job using standard internet protocols similar to those used in the downloading of a web page.

A distributed collaborative computer system that supports document sharing is provided that comprises a plurality of server computers interconnected via a high-speed link. Client computers can connect to any available server computer and start or join a conference hosted on either the server computer to which the client computer is connected or any other server in the system. As a result, the system and method of the present invention allow document sharing among an arbitrary number of client computers.

An apparatus, program product, and method manage content from a content-controlled database (e.g., web pages or other files maintained in a web site) using a content management record linked to each content-controlled content item in the database. Each content management record is utilized in conjunction with a multi-stage content management process, where at least one stage is a review stage during which approval of an associated content item for a content management record is obtained. As a result of receiving appropriate approval, such an associated content item may be promoted and made available to users of the content-controlled database, with the content management record updated to reflect such a status of the associated content item. Content management information for a content item may be maintained in a content management record that is separate from the content item. Moreover, content management records may be maintained in a groupware-type environment, whereby collaborative tools such as document sharing and messaging may be used to facilitate the interaction among members of a content creation, development and management team during the various stages of a content management process. Furthermore, content management records may be monitored over time to provide for periodic review of promoted content items to ensure that content in a database is maintained current and accurate. In addition, multiple language and / or country versions of a content item may be linked together, such that changes made to one language / country version of a content item may automatically prompt a review of other versions to ensure that the changes are propagated to the other versions when necessary.

An improved application sharing system and method allow sharing of documents on a per document basis rather than on a per application basis, in order to simplify the user experience and to provide a more secure sharing environment. A window marking method is used to construct a window list describing the shared and unshared status of various windows. In an embodiment of the invention, a viewer machine displays only a most recently active shared document window even when other windows are also marked as shared. In this way, a viewer's attention can be automatically focused on a current document of interest.

Methods and apparatus are provided for establishing a conference based on the presence or preferences (or both) of one or more invitees. The presence of each invitee is evaluated on one or more devices. A media type is selected based on the presence information. User preference information may be evaluated for those invitees who are not currently present on a device. The selected media type for the conference may optionally be required to support the requirements of the conference, such as document sharing or video links. In this manner, the same communication application can trigger conferences of different media types (where the selected media type is most likely to lead to the successful establishment of the conference). In addition, the present invention allows a media type to be selected that will be more likely to lead to the successful establishment of a conference.

An improved application sharing system and method allow sharing of documents on a per document basis rather than on a per application basis, in order to simplify the user experience and to provide a more secure sharing environment. A window marking method is used to construct a window list describing the shared and unshared status of various windows. In an embodiment of the invention, a viewer machine displays only a most recently active shared document window even when other windows are also marked as shared. In this way, a viewer's attention can be automatically focused on a current document of interest.

The invention provides a remote document sharing method. In the method, a server receives a request message which is sent by a terminal to request for obtaining a control right on a shared document; the server assigns the corresponding control right on the shared document to the terminal based on the received request message; the server receives a terminal's operational instruction on the shared document after the terminal obtains the control right on the shared document; and the server carries out operation on the shared document based on the operational instruction and transmits an operation result to the terminal connected to the server. By saving the shared document on the server and assigning control rights to various terminals, the remote document sharing method and the remote document sharing server enable the content of the shared document to be well synchronized for each terminal in the teleconferencing process.

Methods, systems and computer readable medium with program instructions for sharing documents with other users in an online document sharing session include identifying a set of documents to share with viewing users at a document sharing website. The set of documents may have been uploaded onto the document sharing website by a sharing user and selected for sharing in an online document sharing session. One or more viewing users are selected for sharing the documents of the online document sharing session and access information to access the identified documents are provided. The access provides uniform level of control to both the viewing users and the sharing user so as to interact and manage the documents in the online document sharing session. The viewing users and the sharing user access, view and interact with the documents equally and the interactions are gathered and propagated to all the viewing the sharing users in substantial real-time.

A document sharing system includes producing an updatable collection of multimedia documents. A collection coversheet provides a facile medium for handling and distributing large collections of documents. The system includes techniques for subsequent access to the collection, including printing all or portions of the collection.

The invention generally relates to document management, including the management of documents and versions of documents within collaboration and document sharing systems. An access tracking version manager according to the invention allows document versions to be stored and managed in situations where various people have access to different document versions within a document chain.

The invention discloses a method for sharing a document based on content difference comparison, and the method comprises the following steps: initializing a shared document at network user terminals; waiting for document content change; comparing the difference of the changed document and the unchanged content; carrying out lossless compression and sharing on the difference comparison result; receiving an update package by a browse terminal user from an operating terminal; and decompressing the update package and combining with the current document. The method can not only guarantee the completeness and timeliness of online document sharing but also greatly reduce the network bandwidth resource consumption caused by document sharing.

The invention provides a document quality assessment algorithm applied to a document sharing platform. The algorithm comprises the following steps of: constructing an academic network graph by using a relationship between a document-document and document-periodical session and a writer; quantifying the relationship as a transition relationship between vertexes on the graph, and acquiring a transition probability matrix by modeling; establishing a model by using the collection behavior of a user on documents, and calculating a user analysis-based document quality value; and performing a random walk iterative algorithm with restart on the graph to obtain information on document quality, periodical session quality and writer academic reputation. The document quality assessment algorithm combines the user behavior information and the document quality assessment for the first time, and can give the document quality analysis result and give the analysis results of the writer academic reputation and the periodical session academic quality at the same time, and obviously improves the ordering effect compared with other methods.

Systems and methods for the sharing, collaborative reviewing and freestyle multiparty signing of an electronic document. The system and method to stream an electronic document from a CSR system onto a touchscreen device for real time and multiple signature placement anywhere within an electronic document. Placement of signature is determined by tapping and holding any point on a document to create a signature box which can be relocated and anchored anywhere on the electronic document. The electronic document is then signed via a touchscreen device and the system captures signature vector-based individual strokes and timing data of the signature strokes and stored with the document. The system uses a camera to take a picture of the signee and embeds the image, time stamp, location, and signature data in the electronic document.

Disclosed are various embodiments for sharing documents among users of an enterprise as well as with users external to an enterprise. A document is identified and document components extracted from the document. A browser representation is generated that, when rendered or interpreted by a browser, causes the browser to generate a user interface that presents at least a portion of the document as the document would be viewed by a native viewer.

A printer may be provided with a print setting folder storage area, a data sending device, a data receiving device, and a print device. The print setting folder storage area may be capable of storing a plurality of print setting folders. Each print setting folder may be an association of print setting data and a print setting folder address. The data sending device may be capable of sending the print setting folder address of each print setting folder stored in the print setting folder storage area to an information processing device. The data receiving device may be capable of receiving combination data sent from the information processing device. The combination data may include a data file storage command and a data file, and the data file storage command may include a print setting folder address. In a case where the combination data is received by the data receiving device, the print device may print the data file included in the combination data in accordance with the print setting data associated with the print setting folder address included in the combination data. A scanner may also have a similar configuration to the printer.

Described is a technique for managing collaborative documents. An application program comprises a document renderer component for rendering a first document instance of the collaborative documents; a document sharing component for receiving a document update list comprising a change record set of a second document instance of the collaborative documents, and modifying one or more structural properties of the first document instance based on the change records so as to form a merged document instance of the collaborative documents; and an undo manager component for managing a local undo stack of the first document instance and determining whether one or more undo records of the local undo stack is kept or not after formation of the merged document instance, on the basis of the one or more change records, wherein the local undo stack comprises an undo record set. Other embodiments are also descried and claimed.

The invention provides a document sharing platform and a document processing method. The method comprises the following steps of: receiving documents uploaded by users; judging formats of the documents uploaded by the users; when the documents uploaded by the users are judged to be documents in plain text format, storing the documents in plain text format; and when the documents uploaded by the users are judged to be documents in non-plain text format, converting the documents in non-plain text format into documents in predetermined format and storing the documents in the prefixed format. By using the mode, the advantages that the documents in plain text format have small transmission quantity, clear fonts and the like can be fully utilized and the reading experience of the users can be improved.

The invention provides a keyword recommendation method and a keyword recommendation system for a document sharing platform. The keyword recommendation method for the document sharing platform comprises the following steps of: acquiring description information input by a user aiming at a document to be submitted; acquiring a keyword library; matching the description information of the document to be submitted with the keyword library so as to acquire a corresponding keyword list; and outputting the keyword list. Due to the method, the information provided by the user can be effectively utilized, and more applicable keywords are recommended for the user.

A document processing apparatus which permits the sharing of a document element in a document structure while ensuring that any change to the content appears in the document element in each document sharing it. In a document processing apparatus for managing a plurality of documents each containing a plurality of document elements, a document element having content to be shared with a second document is designated from a plurality of document elements of a first document, and the content of the designated document element is defined as the content of a predetermined document element of the second document to be shared as common content by the first and second documents. Further, any document element having shared content is detected from a document when the display of the document is commanded, and is displayed in a distinguishable manner from other portions.

The invention provides a method and a device for recommending series documents, which are applied to a document sharing platform. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring document titles of uploaded documents, and performing character normalization on the acquired document titles; performing mode matching on the document titles after the character normalization, and classifying the documents corresponding to the document titles with the same public character string and the same mode serial number identification to the same document series; and recommending the documents belonging to the same document series as the current read document of a user to the user. The method and the device meet the requirement of the user for reading the same series of other documents, do not need the user to spend time on searching the documents through a search engine or a classification list, improve the reading experience of the user, and also meet the potential reading requirements of the user.

A system for using accelerometer-based detection of physical movement for document sharing provides easy and intuitive ways to securely share documents, even without passwords, between computing devices. The system of the present invention includes: at least two computing devices that each have a motion detection device capable of detecting sudden movements and generating a unique signature. The unique signature can then be used to generate signatures or shared secrets for controlling the transfer of data between devices. The motion detection device is capable of detecting sudden movement such as the tapping of the two computing devices together, tapping a stack of computing devices, tossing a computing device in the air. The system may optionally include an intermediary device such as a server for transferring the documents or files between computing devices such that only a small decryption key and file pointer is needed to share records between computing devices. The present invention also includes a novel method for accelerometer-based detection of movement for transferring data between computing devices.

The invention relates to a document sharing device, which comprises a document management module and a storage module, wherein the storage module is used for storing shared documents, and the document management module comprises a receiving unit, a shared-information generating unit, a shared-information sending unit and a document sending unit. The receiving unit is used for receiving document sharing requests of a first client side and document browsing requests of a second client side, the document sharing requests include sharing user information, shared user information and identifying information of the shared documents; the shared-information generating unit is used for generating shared-information according to the document sharing requests, and the shared-information includes network addresses of the shared documents; the shared-information sending unit is used for sending the shared-information to a second client side used by shared users; and the document sending unit is used for sending contents of the shared documents to the second client side according to requests of the second client. By the document sharing device, documents can be prevented from disclosure. In addition, the invention further provides a document sharing terminal and a document sharing method.

The invention discloses a cloud synchronous local area network accelerating system based on a working group document, and belongs to the field of document synchronization services of cloud storage. The system is characterized in that by the utilization of the high-speed transmission capacity of the local area network and the local feature of a working group, sharing of a large document is achieved. The trigger-type synchronization updating mode is adopted, and a dispatch control strategy that a server controller is matched with a client trigger is provided. A control instruction sent by the controller is used for assisting the working group in sharing the document in a collaborative mode, IO of the cloud end and network bandwidth resources are saved, a free client is effectively utilized for coordinating with the synchronous transmission, and document synchronization between members of the working group is efficiently achieved on the premise of not increasing the pressure of other clients.

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for implementing document sharing between user groups. The method comprises: receiving document sharing request information sent by a user in a first user group, the document sharing request information carrying an identifier of a target shared document and an identifier of a second user group; sending a shared document instruction to the second user group according to the identifier of the second user group, the shared document instruction carrying an identifier of a to-be-created shared document and an index of the to-be-created shared document and being used for instructing the second user group to create a shared document corresponding to the target shared document, the index of the to-be-created document being the same as the identifier of the target shared document, for associating the to-be-created document with the target shared document. A document is shared by applying the solutions provided by embodiments of this application, and after a user in a first user group edits a target document, the shared document can be synchronously updated in a second user group.

In a hybrid peer-to-peer file sharing network including a receiver peer and a provider peer, the receiver sends the provider a ticket [710] obtained from a server authorizing the receiver to obtain a data object O. The receiver obtains a root value of a hash tree for the object, verifies its digital signature, and sends the provider peer a request for a block of data object O and a request for a corresponding set of hash tree of hash values from the hash tree [714]. The receiver receives from the provider peer the block of O and the corresponding set of hash values of the hash tree [716] that do not contain any hash value in the local hash tree. The receiver sends the provider an acknowledgement of receipt [718], obtains a block key from the provider [720], decrypts the block, verifies the integrity of the block using the subset of hash values and the local hash tree for O, and updates the local hash tree by adding the subset of hash values to the local hash tree, as well as any newly calculated hash values [722]. The provider may submit to a server the acknowledgements as proof of its service to the receiver.