Patent ID: 6230171
Filing Date: 2001-05-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A Web-based collaboration system for enabling one or more group participants to annotate a shared hyper-text document utilizing conventional Web browsers, the system comprising:a markup system executing inside a conventional Web browser's virtual machine of each of the one or more group participants;the markup system including a mechanism for capturing markup events associated with annotations applied to the shared hyper-text document by a group participant, a mechanism for transmitting to other of the one or more group participants the captured markup events, a mechanism for receiving from the other of the one or more group participants markup events associated with annotations applied to the shared hyper-text document, a mechanism for generating corresponding dynamic hyper-text components in response to the markup events captured or received and a mechanism for adding the dynamic hyper-text components generated in response to the markup events captured or received to the shared hyper-text document,wherein the annotations are presented directly on the shared hyper-text document by the conventional Web browsers of the one or more group participants.