Patent Document ID: 7743318
Application ID: 11363864

Base Claim:
1. A method of applying concurrent edits to text in a collaborative editing scenario, wherein the text is stored in a buffer, the method comprising: applying a plurality of concurrent edits to the text in an order-independent manner; applying a first edit to a first version of the text to create a second version of the text; modifying a second edit, originally to be applied to the first version of the text, by comparing the second version of the text to the first version of the text in order to adjust the second edit with respect to the first edit; and applying the modified second edit to the second version of the text to create a third version of the text, wherein, regardless of the order in which the edits are applied, the same resulting text version is obtained.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the buffer is a text buffer.