Patent ID: 7882565

Claim:
A method of controlling editing access to a region in electronic slides, the method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a selected area of a first electronic slide of a first slide presentation for designation as a controlled access region; providing, in response to receiving the selected area of the first electronic slide for designation as the controlled access region, a user interface for setting at access control properties for the selected area of the first electronic slide, wherein the user interface comprises: a first portion for setting access privileges for the selected area of the first electronic slide, a second portion for limiting application functionalities that are operative with the selected area of the first electronic slide, a third portion for setting identification properties of the selected area of the first electronic slide, wherein setting the identification properties comprises setting a visual presentation of the controlled access region, the visual presentation comprising a color-coding of the controlled access region; designating, by the computing device, the selected area as the controlled access region; controlling, by the computing device, editing access to the controlled access region; receiving a request to copy the controlled access region to a second electronic slide of a second slide presentation; when at least one access control property associated with the controlled access region permits copying and pasting of the controlled access region of the first electronic slide: copying the controlled access region of the first electronic slide, wherein copying the controlled access region of the first electronic slide comprises copying all access control properties associated with the controlled access region in the first electronic slide, and pasting the controlled access region to the second electronic slide, wherein pasting the controlled access region to the second electronic slide comprises pasting all of the access control properties associated with the copied controlled access region in the first electronic slide to the pasted controlled access region in the second electronic slide; and in response to copying and pasting the controlled access region of the first electronic slide to the second electronic slide, controlling editing access to the controlled access region in the second electronic slide based on the associated control properties of the controlled access region copied from the first electronic slide.