公开(公告)号：CA2532776A1

公开(公告)日：2005-02-17

申请号：CA2532776

申请日：2004-08-03

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BHOGAL KULVIR SINGH ,  SAHASRABUDHE ROHIT ,  KAMPER ROBERT ,  SIDHU MANDEEP SINGH ,  ISHMAEL JR NIZAMUDEEN

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G06F17/24 ,  G06Q10/00

Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for writing collaborative email documents, including establishing a collaborative email document on an administrator's computer; identifying one or more collaborators who are authorized to view and edit the document; providing to the collaborators copies of the document for viewing and editing, wherein the collaborators' copies reside on collaborators' computers; creating revisions in at least on e copy of the document; recording the revisions; and updating the copies of th e document on collaborators' computers with the revisions. Embodiments typical ly include identifying editable portions of the email document, including specifying that only certain collaborators are authorized to view and edit o ne or more portions of the document. In many embodiments, revisions are streame d through a server so that there is no ~master copy~ of a collaborative document, on a server or elsewhere, against which revisions are recognized.