US 12,093,329 B1
Use of published electronic documents to enable automated communication between document users
Ahmed Mohamed Hany Abdelalim ElGamal, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to LINKBOX, INC. A DELAWARE CORPORATION, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by LINKBOX, INC., a United States state of Delaware corporation, Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Mar. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/685,282.
Application 17/685,282 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/US2020/062915, filed on Dec. 2, 2020.
Application PCT/US2020/062915 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/786,061, filed on Feb. 10, 2020, granted, now 10,887,476, issued on Jan. 5, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/251,632, filed on Oct. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/157,116, filed on Mar. 5, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/967,784, filed on Jan. 30, 2020.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01); G06F 16/176 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/93 (2019.01) [G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/164 (2019.01); G06F 16/176 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of using similar copies of parent documents to create network communications channels between a plurality of users comprising at least first users and second users, said method comprising:
establishing internet links, in an internet server, between a plurality of documents;
said documents being already published and fully edited;
at least some documents being similar copies of a parent document that are not bit-for-bit equivalent to the original parent document, at least some said similar copies lacking electronic metadata associating said similar copies with any said second users, by scanning, using at least one computer processor, said plurality of documents, and determining which of those documents are similar copies of said parent document, thus establishing which of said plurality of documents are similar copies of said parent document, and creating said internet links when similarity is established;
wherein said similar copies of said parent document are stored as document files in different user computerized devices;
running, on a first user computerized device, a similar copy of a same parent document on a reader;
using said internet links, and said at least one computer processor, to establish network communications channels (in-document network communications channels) with at least some second users, wherein at least some in-document network communications channels are initially unknown to said first users, said second users, and said at least one computer processor;
receiving, at a first location of said similar copy, at least first user input from a first user as a document annotation, and using said internet links to transmit at least said first user input, and any of said first location to a second user computerized device;
receiving second user input on said second user computerized device, from a second user, and transmitting, using said internet links, at least said second user input to said first user as a document annotation using said first user computerized device; and
displaying at least said second user input on a graphical user interface of said first user computerized device.