Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090006972 | COLLABORATIVE PHONE-BASED FILE EXCHANGE - A collaborative phone-based file exchange technique that wirelessly synchronizes a user's work context with his or her mobile phone and makes this context readily available and sharable in collaborative situations. When the user is away from their desk, collaboration with others is possible by sharing/downloading between the mobile phone and a paired PC, which may be a colleague's computer or a meeting room workstation/computer. When the user returns to their office, any recently downloaded files are automatically synchronized back to their office PC. | 01-01-2009 |
20090013250 | Selection and Display of User-Created Documents - The invention relates to methods and apparatus for displaying documents created by a particular user to that user. A source of documents created electronically by the user is accessed and an automatic selection of a plurality of parts of documents is made according to selection criteria. The selected parts are displayed sequentially on a peripheral display means associated with the user. | 01-08-2009 |
20090030767 | SCHEDULING AND IMPROVING ERGONOMIC BREAKS USING ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION - An ergonomic break system and method for scheduling and improving an ergonomic break for a user from a computing device. The system and method schedule the break based on environmental information to minimize annoyance to the user. Environmental information includes the condition of the computing device (such as whether the user is typing at the keyboard or using a mouse), the condition of the environment in the immediate vicinity of the computing device (such as whether the user is on the telephone or has another person in the room with her), and the condition of the user (such as whether the user is looking at the display device or is properly stretching during the ergonomic break). The system and method also include features that improve the user's productivity during the break and improve the effectiveness and effectiveness of the break. | 01-29-2009 |
20110264484 | ACTIVITY-CENTRIC GRANULAR APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITY - A system that can enable the atomization of application functionality in connection with an activity-centric system is provided. The system can be utilized as a programmatic tool that decomposes an application's constituent functionality into atoms thereafter monitoring and aggregating atoms with respect to a particular activity. In doing so, the functionality of the system can be scaled based upon complexity and needs of the activity. Additionally, the system can be employed to monetize the atoms or activity capabilities based upon respective use. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270850 | Prioritization of Resources based on User Activities - A computing system generates resource data that represents a resource. The content of the resource data is dependent on a ranking of resources in a set of resources. The ranking of the resources in the set of resources is dependent on interactions between users in a set of users and the resources in the set of resources. The ranking of the resources in the set of resources also is dependent on a degree to which each user in the set of users is related to a user. | 11-03-2011 |
20120290545 | COLLECTION OF INTRANET ACTIVITY DATA - Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating the collection of data within a computer network (especially an intranet) while complying with applicable privacy laws and regulations, as well as individual organizations' rules addressing intranet users' privacy are disclosed. Such systems, methods and computer program products allow for the collecting of activity information related to computer-based activities performed by users while logged into an organization's intranet. Such activity includes navigating to URLs, opening and editing documents, writing, opening and reading email and instant messages, and the like. The collecting, consolidating, storing and exposing of such activity information—while ensuring privacy requirements—serves as a basis for high-value services (e.g., augmenting documents with extra information, improving search results, automatic news feeds, social networking announcements, etc.) to be offered and provisioned to such users. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290565 | AUTOMATIC SOCIAL GRAPH CALCULATION - Systems, methods and computer program products are disclosed for facilitating the collection of activity data, organizational hierarchy data and distribution list data within a private computer network (especially an intranet) while complying with applicable privacy laws and regulations, as well as individual organizations' business rules addressing intranet users' privacy to display a social graph of organization members related to a requesting organization member. Such systems, methods and computer program products allow for the collecting of such data passively without a need for active participation from the requester. A computer-implemented process for displaying a social graph further comprises calculating sub-scores for each of activity data, organizational data and distribution list data and calculating a total score for each related organization member and displaying the social graph comprising those organization members whose score exceeds a predetermined value as related to the requester. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290637 | PERSONALIZED NEWS FEED BASED ON PEER AND PERSONAL ACTIVITY - Systems, methods and computer program products for providing a customized news feed to an individual computer user within an organization based on the reading activities and preferences of other users in the same organization are disclosed. In an embodiment, the system includes a correlation server configured to collect and correlate the reading activities and preferences of individual computer network users within the organization, a news feed database for storing the collected and correlated data, a proxy server configured to receive and output to the information client a selected portion of the collected and correlated data, and a graphical user interface produced by the proxy server that allows the user to select different views of the collected and correlated data as a personalized news feed. | 11-15-2012 |
20120310376 | OCCUPANCY PREDICTION USING HISTORICAL OCCUPANCY PATTERNS - Methods and systems for occupancy prediction using historical occupancy patterns are described. In an embodiment, an occupancy probability is computed by comparing a recent occupancy pattern to historic occupancy patterns. Sensor data for a room, or other space, is used to generate a table of past occupancy which comprises these historic occupancy patterns. The comparison which is performed identifies a number of similar historic occupancy patterns and data from these similar historic occupancy patterns is combined to generate an occupancy probability for a time in the future. In an example, time may be divided into discrete slots and binary values may be used to indicate occupancy or non-occupancy in each slot. An occupancy probability for a defined future time slot then comprises a combination of the binary values for corresponding time slots from each of the identified similar occupancy patterns. | 12-06-2012 |
20140297814 | COLLABORATIVE PHONE-BASED FILE EXCHANGE - A collaborative phone-based file exchange technique that wirelessly synchronizes a user's work context with his or her mobile phone and makes this context readily available and sharable in collaborative situations. When the user is away from their desk, collaboration with others is possible by sharing/downloading between the mobile phone and a paired PC, which may be a colleague's computer or a meeting room workstation/computer. When the user returns to their office, any recently downloaded files are automatically synchronized back to their office PC. | 10-02-2014 |