Patent ID: 8719325

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for allowing a user to initiate collaboration on a document, comprising: a computer accepting from said user a message for electronic delivery to one or more recipients, said message comprising recipient data identifying said one or more recipients and one or more attached documents upon which collaboration is to be initiated; provisioning a collaboration server to initiate collaboration on said one or more attached documents by collaborators comprising said one or more recipients and the user whereby said collaboration comprises said collaborators accessing said one or more attached documents and collaborating to edit said one or more attached documents using said collaboration server, said collaboration server having presentation software executed thereon that opens the one or more attached documents for editing by said collaborators and enables the collaborators to see each other's edits in said one or more attached documents at one time without needing to view and synchronize edits from two different documents; inserting a link into the one or more attached documents directing said one or more recipients to said collaboration server for use of said presentation software by said collaborators to update said one or more attached documents; and sending the message and the one or more attached documents to said one or more recipients.