Patent Document ID: 7818678
Application ID: 10285910

Base Claim:
1. A computer-based document collaboration system for managing the simultaneous input of a plurality of reviewers connected over a network of computers, the document collaboration system comprising: a master data file including a document having contents, and secondary data files respectively associated with said plurality of reviewers for tracking edits made to the contents of said document; wherein respective simultaneous edits from said plurality of reviewers that change the contents of said document are stored in said secondary data files; wherein the respective edits in the secondary data files include respective information specifying respective positions within said document for the respective edits of the contents of the document; wherein respective edits from said plurality of reviewers corresponding to a position among said respective positions within said document are simultaneously displayed to said plurality of reviewers adjacent to said document in response to activation of a control representing said position within said document; and wherein as a result of accepting an edit stored in a secondary data file, the document collaboration system modifies the contents of the document according to the edit.

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Claim 8:
8. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the network of computers includes the Internet.