Patent 8370628 was granted and assigned to Oracle on February, 2013 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system provides document collaboration for a plurality of users. The system divides a central document into a plurality of sections. The system then assigns edit rights for a user for one or more sections, and read-only rights for the user for one or more sections. The system then generates a customized document for the user that includes the edit rights sections and the read-only rights sections.