Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090216578 | COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION SYSTEM - A collaborative innovation system is described. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a topic, responses, revisions, and ratings. The interface may communicate with a content provider and users. The processor may receive the topic from the content provider and provide the topic to the users. The processor may receive responses from some of the users based on the topic. The processor may provide the received responses to all of the users. The processor may receive revisions to the responses from some of the users. The processor may provide the received revisions to all of the users. The processor may receive ratings of the responses and the revisions from the users. The processor may provide the responses and revisions to the content provider, ordered based on the ratings. | 08-27-2009 |
20090216608 | COLLABORATIVE REVIEW SYSTEM - A system for collaborative review is described. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store responses, an item, ratings, user response quality scores, weighted ratings, and total ratings. The interface may communicate with users and a content provider. The processor may receive the item from the content provider. The processor may receive the responses, based on the item, from the users. The processor may receive the ratings for each response from the users. The processor may calculate the user response quality score for each user and may determine the weighted rating of each response based on the user quality score of the user who provided the response. The processor may determine the total rating for each response based on the weighted ratings and may provide the responses, ordered based on the total ratings, to the content provider. | 08-27-2009 |
20090217175 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN INTERFACE FOR COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION - A system is described for providing an interface for collaborative innovation. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store an item, primary responses, secondary responses and ratings. The interface may communicate with users and a content provider and may allow the users to create primary responses associated with the item, create secondary responses associated with the primary responses and rate the primary and secondary responses. The processor may receive the item from the content provider and provide the interface to the users. The processor may receive the primary and secondary responses from the users, and may display a graphical hierarchical representation of the item and the responses. The processor may allow the users to rate the primary and secondary responses through the graphical hierarchical representation. The processor may provide the primary and secondary responses to the content provider, ordered based on the ratings. | 08-27-2009 |
20090259526 | SYSTEM FOR VALUATING USERS AND USER GENERATED CONTENT IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - A system for valuating users and user generated content in a collaborative environment is described. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store an item, responses to the item, and ratings for each response. The processor may receive responses from the users based on the item provided by the content provider. The processor may receive ratings from the users for each of the responses. The processor may determine a response quality score for each response if the number of users who viewed the response satisfies a view threshold. The response quality score may be based on the ratings received for each response and the number of users who viewed each response. The processor may transform each response and the response quality score of each response into a graphical representation and may provide the graphical representation to the content provider. | 10-15-2009 |
20090259947 | SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING A PLURALITY OF ASSOCIATED ITEMS IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - A system is described for displaying a plurality of associated items in a collaborative environment. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store items, each item associated with another item. The processor may provide the graphical representation of the items to a user where each item is represented by a shape. The processor may receive a request to associate a first metric of the items with a size of each shape and a request to associate a second metric of the items with a color of each shape. The processor may transform the graphical representation such that the size of each shape is based on the value of the first metric of each item, and the color of each shape is based on the value of the second metric of each item. The processor may provide the transformed graphical representation to the user. | 10-15-2009 |
20090265430 | SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING USER ACTIVITY IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - A system is described for analyzing user activity in a collaborative environment. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a plurality of data items. Each data item may be related to at least one other data item. The processor may receive a request to alert the user when an action is performed on a selected data item. The processor may also receive a relation threshold identifying at least one other data item related to the selected data item. The processor may detect the action being performed on the data item identified by the relation threshold. The processor may transform data describing the action into an alert. The alert may include the data describing the action, the data item, and a description of the relationship between the data items. The processor may provide the alert to the user via the device. | 10-22-2009 |
20090282346 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - A system is described for managing a collaborative environment. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store items provided by users in a collaborative environment. Each item may be related to at least one other item. The processor may identify the collaborative environment and may receive a request from a user to flag an item in the collaborative environment. The request may include a reason for flagging the item and a description of the reason. The processor may determine a priority level of a plurality of priority levels for handling the item based at least on the reason. Each priority level may be associated with an action to be performed on the item. The processor may perform the action associated with the determined priority level. | 11-12-2009 |
20100185498 | SYSTEM FOR RELATIVE PERFORMANCE BASED VALUATION OF RESPONSES - A system for relative performance based valuation of responses is described. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store responses related to an item and scores of the responses. The interface receives the responses and communicates with devices of users. The processor may receive the responses related to the item. The processor may provide, to devices of the users, pairs of the responses. For each pair of responses, the processor may receive, from the devices of the users, a selection of a response. The processor may calculate scores for each response based on the number of times each response was presented to the users for selection, the number of times each response was selected by the users, and an indication of the other responses of the plurality of responses each response was presented with. The processor may store the scores in the memory. | 07-22-2010 |
20120278117 | TASK MANAGEMENT FOR A PLURALITY OF TEAM MEMBERS - Each of a plurality of team members may define a task by providing data concerning a task to a centralized controller, wherein each task may be assigned any other team member of the plurality of team members. The controller may receive task event information from a first team member of the plurality of team members regarding a task, which task is associated within the controller with the first team member and a second team member. The controller subsequently sends updated task information, based on the task event information, to both the first team member and the second team member. Relevant to any given task, the task event information may comprise a task delegation indication, which may further comprise a non-delegation indication such that further delegation of the task in not permitted. | 11-01-2012 |
20140108083 | TASK MANAGEMENT FOR A PLURALITY OF TEAM MEMBERS - Each of a plurality of team members may define a task by providing data concerning a task to a centralized controller, wherein each task may be assigned any other team member of the plurality of team members. The controller may receive task event information from a first team member of the plurality of team members regarding a task, which task is associated within the controller with the first team member and a second team member. The controller subsequently sends updated task information, based on the task event information, to both the first team member and the second team member. Relevant to any given task, the task event information may comprise a task delegation indication, which may further comprise a non-delegation indication such that further delegation of the task in not permitted. | 04-17-2014 |
20140122615 | SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING USER ACTIVITY IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - A system is described for analyzing user activity in a collaborative environment. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a plurality of data items. Each data item may be related to at least one other data item. The processor may receive a request to alert the user when an action is performed on a selected data item. The processor may also receive a relation threshold identifying at least one other data item related to the selected data item. The processor may detect the action being performed on the data item identified by the relation threshold. The processor may transform data describing the action into an alert. The alert may include the data describing the action, the data item, and a description of the relationship between the data items. The processor may provide the alert to the user via the device. | 05-01-2014 |
20150074200 | SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING USER ACTIVITY IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - A system is described for analyzing user activity in a collaborative environment. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a plurality of data items. Each data item may be related to at least one other data item. The processor may receive a request to alert the user when an action is performed on a selected data item. The processor may also receive a relation threshold identifying at least one other data item related to the selected data item. The processor may detect the action being performed on the data item identified by the relation threshold. The processor may transform data describing the action into an alert. The alert may include the data describing the action, the data item, and a description of the relationship between the data items. The processor may provide the alert to the user via the device. | 03-12-2015 |