Patent Document ID: 9390282
Application ID: 14475964

Base Claim:
1. A method, for creating a document in a collaborative manner, comprising: providing a non-obfuscated original document (NOD) that is accessible to an outsourcing entity, the NOD having one or more sensitive items contained therein; obfuscating said one or more sensitive items in the NOD, to produce an obfuscated original document (OOD) containing obfuscated items; providing the OOD to a plurality of worker entities to make changes to the OOD, the changes producing a plurality of obfuscated transformed document (OTD) parts; receiving the OTD parts from the worker entities, the OTD parts containing the changes made by the worker entities to the OOD; and assembling the OTD parts into an obfuscated transformed document (OTD); de-obfuscating the OTD by restoring the obfuscated items to their corresponding sensitive items, to produce a content-restored transformed document (CTD); sending an instruction from the outsourcing entity to one of the plurality of worker entities via a communication mechanism; and receiving an updated OTD from the worker entity receiving the instruction from the outsourcing entity, the updated OTD containing at least one additional change made by the worker entity to the OOD, said providing the NOD, obfuscating, providing the OOD, receiving, assembling, sending, and de-obfuscating being performed by one or more computing devices.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the changes affects a manner of presentation of information contained in the NOD, without affecting a semantic content of the information contained in the NOD.