Patent ID: 7650389

Claim:
A method for managing logical documents on a network, comprising: (a) connecting a plurality of mobile communication devices to the network through a communication network and assigning a weight to each of the plurality of mobile communication devices; (b) providing a storage device on the network as a logical disk drive to the plurality of mobile communication devices that is capable of storing a file; (c) at least two of the plurality of mobile communication devices modifying a copy of the file in a different way, such that each of the at least two of the plurality of mobile communication devices has an associated modified version of the file; (d) identifying those of the plurality of mobile communication devices that have a modified version of the file; (e) for each of the identified plurality of mobile communication devices, comparing relative weights of the plurality of mobile communication devices and based on the comparison performing: 1. when the weight of each of the plurality of mobile communication devices is not equal, then updating the file in the storage device with the modified version of the file associated with the mobile communications device with the largest weight; and 2. when the weight of at least two of the plurality of mobile communication devices are equal and the equal weight is the largest among the plurality: a. requesting a user to manually select from the modified versions of the file associated with the plurality of mobile communication devices with equal and largest weights, then updating the file in the storage device based on the selection; or b. updating the file with information from the modified versions of the file in the storage device associated with the plurality of mobile communication devices with equal and largest weights.