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Adobe patents systems for mobile application development and collaborative document editing

Of course Adobe, which pioneered the use of the Portable Document Format (PDF), would have a number of inventions relating to electronic documents. A better mechanism for uploading an electronic document for use during a network-based conference is discussed within U.S. Patent No. 8943129, issued under the title Document Based Conferencing. This patent claims a computerized method of generating an identifier of a document, receiving a designation of a collaboration server to synchronize actions across multiple instances of the document during a collaboration session, adding the identifiers of the document and the collaboration server within data of the document and storing the document to a local data storage device. This invention supports the capturing and transmitting of modifications and notations to all users within a collaborative document session.