ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,917, issued on March 3, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Server apparatus and client apparatus" was invented by Yasuhiro Kudo (Ichinomiya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a server apparatus and a client apparatus by which a plurality of users efficiently edits a shared document. If the version of a document to be edited by the client apparatus device differs from the version of a server document, the server apparatus newly determines the editing object for the server document on the basis of a command a path included in an edit instruction transmitted by the client apparatus and a command a path ...