Collaborative Document Review With Concise Change Summaries
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Solution Overview
Problem
The process of multiple reviewers proposing changes to an electronic document is time-consuming and inefficient, as existing systems provide verbatim summaries of all changes, obscuring the relevant information and wasting screen real estate.
Innovation Solution
A system and method to generate a concise summary of changes by iteratively selecting, combining, and truncating suggested changes based on relevance, using a review manager to determine inclusion, combination, and truncation, and providing a summary of modified suggested changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If verbatim summaries of all changes are provided, then complete information is preserved, but screen real estate is wasted and relevant information is obscured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the most relevant and significant changes from the complete list of suggested changes, displaying them in a condensed summary format. This selective extraction preserves essential information while reducing the display area required, directly resolving the contradiction between information completeness and screen real estate usage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different levels of detail and formatting to different types of changes based on their significance. Important changes receive more prominent display, while less critical changes are condensed or grouped. This local differentiation maintains information quality where needed while optimizing screen space utilization.
2Loss of information
If verbatim summaries of all changes are provided, then complete information is preserved, but editors cannot quickly process suggestions
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and prioritizes the most significant changes for immediate review, allowing editors to quickly process critical suggestions first. Less critical changes can be reviewed later or in condensed form, significantly reducing the time required to process all suggestions while maintaining access to complete information when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the list of suggested changes into priority levels or categories, enabling editors to process changes in an organized manner. This segmentation allows quick review of high-priority items while deferring or condensing lower-priority items, reducing overall processing time without losing information completeness.
3Reliability
If all suggested changes are displayed in detail, then comprehensive review is enabled, but efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts key information from each suggested change and displays it in a condensed format that enables quick assessment. Editors can review the essence of each change efficiently, and only need to examine full details for changes that require careful consideration, thereby maintaining review comprehensiveness while improving editing efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the level of detail displayed based on the editor's needs and the significance of changes. High-priority or complex changes can be expanded for detailed review, while routine changes are displayed in condensed form. This dynamic presentation maintains comprehensive review capability while optimizing for efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are disclosed for sharing a unified undo/redo stack between multiple applications. A method determining that a host application receives an action regarding a document, adding the action to a unified stack that is associated with undo commands and is shared between the host application and a secondary application, receiving an undo command from the host application or the secondary application, and retrieving the undo command from the unified stack to cause the action to be undone in the host application and the secondary application.