Patent ID: 9514114
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing product configuration files, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more processors, a document containing at least one plain text reference to one or more files embedded in content of the document; identifying, by one or more processors, a storage location associated with each of the at least one plain text reference to the one or more files embedded in the content of the document; annotating, by one or more processors, the document with each of the at least one plain text reference to the one or more files embedded in the content of the document, wherein each annotation links a plain text reference to the one or more files to an identified storage location; determining, by one or more processors, a first annotation has been selected in the document to access a first file associated with the first annotation; linking, by one or more processors, a first storage location for the first file associated with the first annotation to the document wherein the first storage location includes content of the first file; formatting, by one or more processors, the content of the first file associated with the first annotation, wherein formatting allows for content to be displayed in a window overlaying the document; displaying, by one or more processors, the formatted content of the first file is displayed in the window overlaying the document; determining, by one or more processors, an edit was performed to be formatted content of the first file in the window overlaying the document; and storing, by one or more processors, the content of the first file with the edit at the first storage location for the first file.