Patent Document ID: 9960932
Application ID: 13690002

Base Claim:
1. A method of sharing modifications of a document among a plurality of authors, comprising: publishing the document using a service that is accessible by at least some of the authors; presenting the document and a set of reply tokens to a first author, wherein the set of reply tokens includes two or more tokens from a group consisting of: one or more action icon tokens; one or more status icon tokens; one or more emoticon tokens; one or more emoji tokens; one or more expressive element tokens; one or more clip art tokens; one or more abbreviated standard text tokens; one or more audio clip tokens; one or more video clip tokens; and one or more shape tokens; receiving modifications from the first author, the modifications including selection of at least one reply token of the set of reply tokens, the at least one reply token corresponding to at least one predefined content snippet; and propagating the modifications to other authors of the plurality of authors by sending change information to the other authors, wherein the change information includes the at least one predefined content snippet, a pointer to the document, an indication of the modifications, and an identification of the first one of the authors, and wherein the change information does not include the document.

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Claim 2:
2. A method, according to claim 1 , wherein the service is a cloud service.