Patent Document ID: 10146757
Application ID: 15143646

Base Claim:
1. A method for managing document annotations in a publish/subscribe system as carried out at a subscribing system, comprising: subscribing a user to annotations of a document, wherein each annotation is separate from the document and includes reference to display of the annotation in relation to display of the document; defining a role of the subscribing user, wherein use permissions of a set of the annotations by the subscribing user are controlled based on the role, the use permissions including access permissions based on at least one constraint selected from a group consisting of a time constraint and a location constraint of the subscribing user; and filtering, using at least one tag, the subscription of the subscribing user to the set of the annotations based on a publishing user.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the use permissions include editing permissions for the subscribing user.