Forming a document collection in a document management and collaboration system

US10540404B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · US

Inventors

• Wei Lien Stephen Dang · Mountain View, US
• Arun Ponniah Sethuramalingam · San Jose, US
• Cynthia Zhang Taylor · San Leandro, US
• Catherine Emily Harrell · San Francisco, US
• Nandhini Nandiwada Santhanam · San Jose, US
• Stephen Joseph Oakley · Mountain View, US
• Sharad Kala · Sunnyvale, US
• Noah Anthony Eisner · Menlo Park, US
• Liangliang Wang · 沈庄, CN
• Nagesh Pradhan Cadabam · Sunnyvale, US
• Kevin Gillett · Menlo Park, US
• Himanshu Khurana · Excelsior, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 7, 2014
• Grant date: Jan 21, 2020
• Expiry date: Feb 7, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F21/6209
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for forming a collection of documents is disclosed. In the method and apparatus, a plurality of documents are identified for inclusion in a document collection. The documents are identified based at least in part on one or more attributes of at least one document of the plurality of documents. A user is requested to confirm the document collection, and an instruction is received from the user indicating one or more documents of the plurality of documents may be included in the document collection. After the indication is received, the collection may be formed and made available to the user or one or more other users of a document management and collaboration system.