Patent ID: 8484578

Claim:
A method of communicating status information for a document from an out-space user interface to an in-space user interface for alerting a user of the document of the availability of the status information in the out-space user interface, comprising: displaying an in-space user interface that includes a display of authoring features and a document display area for creating and editing a document and an out-space actuator associated with the out-space user interface, and displaying a document that is editable in the document display area of the in-space user interface; receiving a status of the document, and saving the status of the document in the out-space user interface; temporarily displaying in the in-space user interface an out-space communication user interface (UI) component for alerting a user of the document about the availability of the status of the document; and disposing the out-space actuator in the out-space communication user interface (UI) component for allowing deployment of the out-space user interface that includes: removing the display of the editable document that is displayed within the document display area associated with the in-space user interface; displaying a non-authoring feature within the document display area; and displaying a smaller non-editable version of the editable document in the out-space communication user interface (UI) in response to selection of the out-space actuator from the out-space communication user interface (UI) component for allowing the user of the document to review the status of the document.