ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,735, issued on April 22, was assigned to Jive Software Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Distributed document co-authoring and processing" was invented by Oudi Antebi (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Roy Antebi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Reem Bensimhon (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Lev Waisberg (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device are disclosed including plug-in software components that are integrated with document processing software suites. The plug-in software components provide a set of integrated interfaces for collaborative document processing in conjunction with multiple remote file, data, and application service providers. ...