Patent ID: 8788589
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for coordinating edits of shared digital data by multiple independently operated user computers, the method comprising: In a coordinating device: receiving commands to edit the shared digital data from the multiple independently operated user computers, determining that two or more of the commands from respective ones of the multiple independently operated user computers are mutually exclusive when the two or more of the commands modify content of the shared digital data in a contradictory manner; incorporating one of the two or more mutually exclusive commands into a global command queue and annulling the other(s) of the two or more mutually exclusive commands; and transmitting the global command queue and not the shared digital data to all of the multiple independently operated user computers so that the two or more of the incorporated commands are to be executed locally on a version of the shared digital data stored on each of the multiple independently operated user computers, wherein said global command queue is transmitted to each of said multiple independently operated user computers for said incorporated commands to be executed locally only after said incorporating step.