COLLABORATIVE EMAIL
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    发明专利

    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

    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.

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