AMERICAN PATENT FOR SALE – PATENTE AMERICANA EN VENTA – SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING INFORMATION BETWEEN A USER GROUP AND ASSOCIATED DOCUMENT

Systems and methods of the present invention connect a group of users who are involved in a common project. The information on. this project will be stored in an electronic document. Each member of the group has an exact copy of the document and the method of this in­vention is what ensures that such copies are exact. Each user may incorporate modifications into their copy, which will later be shared by the rest after a synchro­ nization stage. Systems and methods further allow the information to be shared between the various members of the group and which include of a series of stages during which it is mainly a question of transferring the modi­fications from a specific user to the rest of the group, thus avoiding the use of dedicated client-server structure.

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