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 24:
24. The method claim 1 , the portion of the database that is limited to the first organization includes one or more workspaces; the storing of the of document in the document management storage includes publishing the document in a workspace selected from the one or more workspaces; and a given user must be have access to the workspace in which the document is published to have access to the document.