Patent Document ID: 7991790
Application ID: 11880197

Base Claim:
1. A method for storing documents tracked on behalf of a plurality of organizations, comprising: receiving at a host system, a document to store on behalf of a first organization from a client machine; receiving a tag from the client machine for storing in association with the document; storing in a storage accessible to the host system, the document in association with the tag, the document being stored to document management storage; and associating by the host system, the document in the document management storage with a unique identifier; allowing a level of access to the document to be granted to multiple users that are members of the first organization, the level of access allowing a plurality of users to at least edit the document, and store the document that was edited on the host system as a master copy of the document; wherein the document stored in the document management storage and copies of the document are tracked using a portion of a database limited to information of the first organization; associating by the host system, the document with one or more of a plurality of document types chosen from a list of document types, each of the document types including one or more properties associated with a list of properties, each property describing one or more characteristics associated with the document type that is associated with the document; and receiving values for one or more search fields, the one or more search fields being different from the tag, the document types, and the properties; and the one or more search fields including at least a field for an author of the original document, a name of a workspace, and a document format.

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Claim 21:
21. The method of claim 1 , wherein the database is a multi-tenant database, the organization exists independently of the database, the organization existed prior to becoming a tenant, and the organization is allowed to store within the portion of the document management storage, multiple documents that are each tracked and that may each be edited by multiple members of the organization; and the organization is one of multiple tenants of the multi-tenant database.