MULTI-CLIENT COLLABORATION TO ACCESS AND UPDATE STRUCTURED DATA ELEMENTS Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G06F15/16 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: disclosed is a method of providing multi-client collaboration on structured data elements which comprises steps of: receiving at least one structured data element within a spreadsheet published at least in part in a first client system; defining a corresponding unique identifier; sending said at least one structured data element and said corresponding unique identifier to a master table; entering said at least one structured data element into the master table; calculating a value of said at least one structured data element; distributing said at least one structured data element and calculated value from the master table to a second client system and distributing the calculated value from the master table to the first client system; receiving a request to edit the master table; in response to receiving a request to edit the master table, determining whether the user making said request has privileges to edit the master table; if so, said changes are applied to the master table scheme and said changes to the master table scheme are synchronised with the first and second client systems.

EFFECT: providing multi-client collaboration on structured data elements.

12 cl, 7 dwg