Patent Document ID: 8131647
Application ID: 11039645

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing an annotation of a digital work, comprising: under control of instructions that are executed by one or more computing devices: receiving multiple annotations from different authors for particular content in a digital work; storing the annotations in association with the digital work; providing a list of abbreviated versions of the annotations to a user desiring to access one or more of the annotations, wherein the list presents the annotations in an order determined by reference to a criterion; receiving an authorization credential from a user desiring to access one or more of the annotations; and if the authorization credential is valid, providing a full version of one or more of the annotations of the digital work to the user in context with regard to the digital work.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein an annotation of the digital work is received in a graphical format.