Patent ID: 7451236
Filing Date: 2008-11-11
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for distributing documents, comprising: producing a first identifier adapted for association with a first document, the first identifier including first information indicative of a first server configured to create the first document in an original document format; transmitting the first identifier from the first server to a client based upon at least a request from the client to create the first document on the first server in the original document format; associating the first identifier by the client with the first document; transmitting a copy of the first document in the original document format from the client to the first server; receiving a distribution list associated with the first document, the distribution list identifying a second server; transmitting a commit request to the first server; in response to the commit request, transmitting a copy of the first document from the first server to the second server identified by the distribution list, the first server and the second server thereafter responsive to one or more download requests for one or more copies of the first document, the download requests containing the first information; in response to receiving a second document representative of a modified version of the first document, determining the server that created the first document in the original document format based on the first information; and propagating a copy of the second document to the server that created the first document in the original document format based on the distribution list.