Patent Document ID: 8185606
Application ID: 11955123

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for email change tracking, the computer implemented method comprising: receiving an email having a change tracking annotation defining an annotated portion within the email to form a received email, wherein the received email includes a set of tags comprising start and end tags defining an annotated portion, wherein the tags of the annotated portion comprise tags from a set of comment tags; parsing the received email with a first parser, the first parser ignoring the annotated portion to form a parsed first portion and wherein the tags of the annotated portion are ignored by the first parser; parsing the annotated portion of the received email with a second parser capable of parsing the annotated portion to form a parsed annotated portion, wherein the tags of the annotated portion are parsed by the second parser; and displaying the received email, comprising the parsed first portion and the parsed annotated portion, wherein the parsed annotated portion includes email change tracking indicating changes in a text that occurred at each location of each text change to a user.

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Claim 7:
7. The computer implemented method of claim 1 wherein the tags of the comment tags further comprise an add tag in a first http comment tag and an enclosing add tag in a second http comment tag in which the add tag and the enclosing add tag indicate that text between the http comment tags of the add tag and the enclosing add tag is text that was added to a block of text.