Patent Document ID: 9529785
Application ID: 13686310

Base Claim:
1. A method to identify compounding relationships between edits in an electronic document, comprising: receiving, by a processor, a set of one or more first edits and a second edit to the electronic document; receiving, by the processor, an acceptance of the second edit from an editor of the electronic document; identifying, by the processor, a shared position of the set of one or more first edits and the second edit in the electronic document; filtering the set of one or more first edits to remove deletions in the electronic document and include insertions and modifications in the electronic document, to obtain at least a subset of the one or more first edits; determining, by the processor, that the subset of one or more first edits and the second edit have compounding relationships based at least in part on the identification, by determining that the subset of one or more first edits are required to be accepted in order for the second edit to be accepted; and in response to the determining that the subset of one or more first edits and the second edit have the compounding relationships, automatically accepting, by the processor, the subset of one or more first edits in response to receiving the acceptance of the second edit.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the subset of one or more first edits and the second edit have compounding relationships when the second edit is dependent on the subset of one or more first edits, wherein the subset of one or more first edits comprises a first modification of an element to obtain a modified element, and the second edit comprises a second modification of the modified element.