Patent ID: 9367530
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of co-authoring a document, the method comprising: detecting a first set of changes made to a first version of a particular document on a first client computing device; detecting a second set of changes made to a second version of the particular document on a second client computing device; and communicating every change in the first set of changes, using a first software plug-in component plugged into a first existing document processing suite, to the second client computing device, and communicating every change in the second set of changes, using a second software plug-in component plugged into a second existing document processing suite, to the first client computing device via a plurality of third party collaboration service providers unassociated with the first and the second document processing suites used to edit the particular document, each of the plurality of the third party collaboration service providers supplying a separate master copy of the particular document identical to each of the separate master copies of the particular document on each of the other plurality of the third party collaboration service providers, resulting in the first version and the second version of the particular document to become identical, and also resulting in all separate master copies of the particular document to become identical; and wherein the first and the second software plug-in components are configured to provide an integrated user interface including image search, copy, and insert functions, the search function configured to be conducted using third-party external search engines coupled with the plug-in components.