Patent ID: 9348803
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing a preview of an editor action related to a first edit of an electronic document, the method comprising: displaying, by a user interface, the first edit and a second edit to the electronic document in a markup view of the electronic document, wherein the first edit and the second edit are provided by a first user of the electronic document; detecting, by a processor, a user input from a second user of the electronic document, the user input being indicative of a desire to preview a result of the editor action on the first edit; providing, by the processor, a preview of the result of the editor action in response to detecting the user input by temporarily applying the editor action to a visual rendering of the electronic document without changing a remainder of the markup view of the electronic document related to the second edit, wherein: the preview is provided until the editor action is received or until the second user provides another user input indicative of a request to stop viewing the preview, providing the preview occurs before the second user performs the editor action, the preview includes (1) a replacement of the markup view of a first portion of the electronic document related to the first edit with a clean view of the first portion of the electronic document related to the first edit and (2) the markup view of a second portion of the electronic document related to the second edit, and the clean view of the first portion of the electronic document is displayed in the preview as if the editor action is implemented on the first edit.