Patent Document ID: 9037566
Application ID: 13523053

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented method comprising: inserting a reference including a unique identifier to a supplemental content item into a primary document, wherein the supplemental content item is derived from an original content item; deriving an annotated supplemental content item from the supplemental content item, wherein the annotated supplemental content item includes at least one annotation and a subset of content from the supplemental content item and a plurality of annotations and the reference references a sequentially first annotation in the annotated supplemental content item; designating another unique identifier for the annotated supplemental content item; inserting another reference including the another unique identifier of the annotated supplemental content item into the primary document, wherein the reference is a link and wherein the unique identifier is a globally unique identifier or a hash of a filename; and assembling the primary document, the supplemental content item, and the annotated supplemental content item into a structured electronic document by converting a format of the primary document to another format and locking the structured electronic document to prevent further editing.

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Claim 3:
3. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein deriving the annotated supplemental content item comprises: presenting a control through a user interface that is operable to receive a request from a user to annotate the supplemental content item; receiving a request from the user through the control to annotate the supplemental content item; and launching an annotation module having another user interface through which the user can enter one or more annotations.