Patent ID: 8214423
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A collaboration server accessible from disparate locations, the collaboration server comprising: a memory for storing a master model designed in a collaborative session; a kernel operable to provide access to data required by multiple independent users, the data stored in a system independent of the collaboration server and related to a design of the master model in the collaborative session, the design of the master model carried out in the collaborative session in a manner that allows two or more of the users to simultaneously collaborate on the design of the master model; an input function for receiving commands to modify the data from the multiple independent users, the commands executed by the collaboration server to modify the master model, a change to the master model being conveyed from the collaboration server to the multiple independent users; a logging function operable to log the change to the master model in a log as a result of the commands from the multiple independent users; a report function accessible by the multiple independent users, the report function generating a report comprising the change to the master model during the collaborative session; and a network device for transmitting the information related to the change to the master model to the multiple independent users.