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Timestamp: 2019-05-20 22:52:23
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US9747268B2 - Making document changes by replying to electronic messages - Google Patents
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US9747268B2
US9747268B2 US14/188,666 US201414188666A US9747268B2 US 9747268 B2 US9747268 B2 US 9747268B2 US 201414188666 A US201414188666 A US 201414188666A US 9747268 B2 US9747268 B2 US 9747268B2
US14/188,666
US20140173423A1 (en
Daniel Swett
2011-04-28 Priority to US13/096,830 priority Critical patent/US8682989B2/en
2014-02-24 Application filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC filed Critical Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC
2014-02-24 Priority to US14/188,666 priority patent/US9747268B2/en
2014-06-19 Publication of US20140173423A1 publication Critical patent/US20140173423A1/en
2017-08-29 Publication of US9747268B2 publication Critical patent/US9747268B2/en
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/096,830, filed Apr. 28, 2011, entitled “Making Document Changes by Replying to Electronic Messages,” and now U.S. Pat. No. 8,682,989, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
In the example illustrated, a reviewer (Editor1) has received an email message summarizing changes that were made to a document (Document1.doc) by another author/reviewer. The changes may be made to any type of document. For example, the changes may be made to a text file, a spreadsheet, a web page, a slide presentation, a word processing document, and the like. The electronic message may be accessed a number of ways. For example, a web browser may access an electronic mail service, an email application on a computing device may be configured to receive emails from one or more different services, and the like.
As illustrated, electronic message 304 includes To:/From: fields 310 that show that the changes included within the email are from the Document1.doc document and they are sent to Editor1 that is a reviewer that is assigned to collaborated on Document1.doc. Editing summary 311 shows that the user Author1 edited Document1.doc at 12:10 pm of the current day. More or less information may be shown in editing summary 311. For example, a number of changes made, a number of paragraphs changed, a number of sections that Editor1 is collaborating on, and the like. Reply 312 is used to reply to the electronic message. Instructions for making changes and adding comments to the changes may also be displayed. Other menu options may also be used to reply to the electronic message.
The To:/From: fields 512 indicate the reply is to be sent to the Document1 address and it is sent by Editor2. Editing summary 510 shows that Author1 edited the document and Editor1 made a comment. In the current example, Editor2 has decided to make changes to the change originally made by Author1. In the message 504, a reply to comment box 516 is shown below change box 514 and another comment box 518 is shown below the comment 416 that was entered by Editor1.
Transitioning to operation 840, the changes that are contained within the reply message are determined. The changes may include one or more comments and/or additions/deletions to the changes that were included in the electronic message that was received by the reviewer.
display an electronic message that includes a change made to a document, wherein the change is viewable within a body portion of the electronic message;
receive a reply to the electronic message that includes a received change for the document, wherein the received change for the document is made directly from within the electronic message and is made outside of the document; and
after receiving the reply to the electronic message, automatically incorporate the received change into the document.
2. The device of claim 1, further configured to contain document changes within the electronic message.
3. The device of claim 1, further configured to receive accepted changes for the document via a reply to the electronic message.
4. The device of claim 1, further configured to receive rejections to changes for the document via a reply to the electronic message.
5. The device of claim 1, further configured to use a link to accept or reject changes to a document stored in a shared location.
6. The device of claim 1, further configured to receive a comment on the change to the document via a reply to the electronic message.
7. The device of claim 1, further configured to provide an option to open the document from within the electronic message.
8. The device of claim 1, further configured to create the electronic message to include a summary of changes made to the document.
9. The device of claim 1, wherein the electronic message includes changes to be reviewed, an entry point for comments, and controls configured to accept and reject changes.
10. The device of claim 1 including a web browser configured to access the electronic message through an email service to affect changes to the document.
11. The device of claim 1, further configured to display a different change section within the body portion of the electronic message for each change.
12. The device of claim 1, further configured to display each change within a separate section of the electronic message including a portion of text contained in the document before and/or after each change.
using an electronic message to manage changes to be made to a document, wherein one or more changes to be made to the document are viewable within a body of the electronic message;
using a reply to the electronic message that includes a received change made directly from within the body of the electronic message and made outside of the document that is to be incorporated into the document; and
14. The method of claim 13, further comprising displaying each change within a separate section of the electronic message including displaying a portion of document text before and/or after each change.
15. The method of claim 13, further comprising parsing the electronic message before applying the changes to the document.
16. The method of claim 13, further comprising using the electronic message to track one or more of a number of changes made, a number of comments made, and a number of accepted and/or rejected changes associated with the document.
17. The method of claim 13, further comprising limiting a number of changes displayed relative to a receiver of the electronic message.
18. A computer-readable storage device having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which when executed by a computer perform a method for managing document changes by replying to an electronic message, comprising:
using a reply to the electronic message that includes a received change made directly from within the electronic message and made outside of the document that is to be incorporated into the document; and
19. The computer-readable storage device of claim 18, further comprising displaying a link within the electronic message to be user for navigating to a section of the document.
20. The computer-readable storage device of claim 18, further configured displaying a first selectable option to accept a change and a second selectable option to reject the change.
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