Patent ID: 9609032
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. Enacted on a computer network, a method for managing joint ownership of a collaborative electronic document, the method comprising: creating the collaborative electronic document on a collaborative network portal of the computer network; indicating on the network that the collaborative electronic document is owned by at least a first user from a first organization and a second user from a different, second organization; determining via the network that the second user has revoked network access to the collaborative electronic document by the first user; adding the second user to a revoking owners list stored on the network; blocking network access to at least a portion of contents of the collaborative electronic document by the first user and by the second user; receiving, via the network, instructions from the second user to restore network access to the collaborative electronic document by the first user; removing the second user from the revoking owners list; and allowing network access to the collaborative electronic document to the first and second users when the revoking owners list is empty.