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- Patent Title: Systems and methods for producing incremental revised content
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Application No.: US16867912Application Date: 2020-05-06
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Publication No.: US11314702B2Publication Date: 2022-04-26
- Inventor: Walter Michael Seiler, III , Douglas Mealing
- Applicant: Cengage Learning, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Boston
- Assignee: Cengage Learning, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cengage Learning, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Boston
- Agency: Goodwin Procter LLP
- Main IPC: G06F16/00
- IPC: G06F16/00 ; G06F16/18 ; G06F16/176 ; G09B5/12 ; G06F16/11

Abstract:
A method and system for incrementally revising designated portions of content contained in a medium to provide a new edition and/or a revised edition of the medium, the method including assigning a unique identifier to each element of the content contained in the source version; creating for each element of the content, at least one of a change set file, a logical content store file, or a definition file; receiving from a first author a first modification to a discrete portion of the content, the first modification further comprising: a logical intent of the first author for the first modification, a purpose of the first author for the first modification, or a goal of the first author for the first modification; storing the first modification in a corresponding first change set file; receiving from a second author a second modification to the discrete portion of the content, the second modification further comprising: a logical intent of the second author for the second modification, a purpose of the second author for the second modification, or a goal of the second author for the second modification; storing the second modification in a corresponding second change set file; and merging the first change set file and the second change set file into the medium.
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