Patent ID: 9652741
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: maintaining a workspace in a cloud-based collaborative environment for a plurality of collaborators, wherein the plurality of collaborators of the workspace perform activities on one or more work items within the workspace, wherein each of the one or more work items have individually configurable synchronization permissions, and wherein the collaborators maintain local copies of the one or more work items at their respective computers; receiving a first event notification from a synch client application at a first collaborator's computer of a first change to a local copy of a shared work item stored in the workspace, the local copy stored in a local synch folder at the first collaborator's computer, wherein the first change represents a hard conflict with a second change to the shared work item by a second collaborator; responsive to receiving the first event notification: responsive to enabling synchronization: