Patent Document ID: 9251128
Application ID: 13488867

Base Claim:
1. A method for scoping editing operations in a document using a document editing computer application, the method comprising: tagging each incidence of edited content of the document with an identity of an author responsible for an applicable incidence, a date of the applicable incidence, a time of day of the applicable incidence, a document phase, and an author role; presenting a mechanism for designating a scope of tagged edited content to be found, wherein the mechanism comprises features for respectively designating the author or authors, the date, the time of day, the document phase, the author role, a character string, styling of characters, or any combination thereof, wherein such presenting a mechanism for designating a scope of tagged edited content comprises presenting a mechanism for receiving from a user a selection that the user wants to search for content not edited by one or more authors and the affirmative exclusion by a user of one or more authors by selecting the one or more authors to exclude the one or more authors; finding a selection of at least some of the tagged edited content according to the designated scope of the tagged edited content and the designated character string, styling, or combination thereof; and replacing the designated character string, styling, or combination thereof within the designated scope of tagged edited content in the document.

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Claim 10:
10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising highlighting or otherwise visually identifying the tagged edited content to identify the author responsible for the tagged content.