Patent ID: 9438546
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. One or more computer readable storage media comprising program instructions stored thereon for facilitating document collaboration within a message environment that, when executed by a computing system, directs the computing system to at least: receive a request to send, on behalf of a sender, a message having an attachment; in response to the request, determine whether or not a collaboration option in the message is selected; if the collaboration option is selected, then generate a collaborative version of the attachment within a location in the message environment associated with the sender and send the message to a plurality of recipients of the message with a reference to the collaborative version of the attachment; if the collaboration option is not selected, then send the message to the plurality of recipients of the message with the attachment; and modify the collaborative version of the attachment to reflect a plurality of updates initiated on behalf of a plurality of recipients of the message.