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Maintaining annotations for distributed and versioned files

US8201079B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Brian J. Cragun · Rochester, US
Cale T. Rath · Byron, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 15, 2004
Grant date	Jun 12, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 22, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F40/169
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for maintaining annotations for changing source documents are provided. For some embodiments, an annotation system may support multiple policies, with each policy dictating how (or if) an annotation created for a version of a source document should be applied to subsequent versions of the source document. For some embodiments, a user creating an annotation may select from a group of available policies to be applied to the annotation. For some embodiments, policies may be enforced when annotated documents are checked into a content management system used to manage the annotated documents.

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