Patent ID: 9715476
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method to be executed in a physical computing device for enabling collaborative authoring, the method comprising: providing, by an authoring module being executed by the physical computing device, a scratchpad through a collaborative authoring service for initiation of content collaboration with collaborators; providing one or more controls on a user interface, by the authoring module being executed by the physical computing device, for identification and invitation of the collaborators; providing one or more controls on the user interface, by the authoring module being executed by the physical computing device, for authoring and editing of portions of the content through the scratchpad employing a no-save model across one or more hosted applications; in response to detecting a. selected portion from the portions of the content, providing, by the authoring module being executed by the physical computing device, a list of one or more collaborator actions associated with the selected portion; in response to detecting; a selected collaborator from a list of the collaborators, providing by the authoring module being executing by the physical computing device, a related portion from the portions of the content as highlighted, wherein the related portion is associated with the selected collaborator; and providing, by a communication module being executed by the physical computing device, communication capabilities associated with the content collaboration through one or more communication modalities.