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20100070463 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA PROVENANCE MANAGEMENT - A method for deriving data provenance information corresponding to a workflow process having lower-level workflow processes includes deriving internal provenance information for data pertaining to at least one of the lower-level workflow processes, identifying data objects that are shared between at least a pair of lower-level workflow processes to derive external provenance information for the identified data objects, in response to a user-submitted query, using the internal and external provenance information to retrieve the data provenance information for the workflow process, and outputting the derived data provenance to a user. | 03-18-2010 |
20100070464 | DOCUMENT-BASED WORKFLOWS - A workflow application allows users to store, manage, and perform tasks related to workflows comprised of ordered sets of documents. The application provides an interface for creating and managing a workflow. Each document added to the workflow is assigned to a particular position in the workflow. Via the interface, the user saves data defining the workflow. In this manner, the workflow may be shared or preserved for subsequent re-use. The application allows a user to perform various tasks with respect to the workflow. Via an interface control presented by the application, the user instigates such tasks. In response, the application causes the task to be performed for each document in the workflow in an order corresponding to the arrangement of the documents within the workflow. For example, the application may render and print each document in the workflow. Or, the application may generate a combined workflow report. | 03-18-2010 |
20100100523 | System and Method for Grouping a Collection of Documents Using Document Series - A system and method that allows a publisher to create a document series, associate a document with a document series and present to an end-user a series nugget displaying at least one document associated with the document series. Document series information may be inherited by each document in the document series. Document series information is stored in an asset database. | 04-22-2010 |
20100106681 | Identifying Files Associated With A Workflow - To determine files associated with one or more workflows, a trace of accesses of files in at least one server is received. The files are grouped into at least one set of files, where the files in the set are accessed together more than a predetermined number of times in the trace. Files associated with the particular workflow are identified based on the at least one set. | 04-29-2010 |
20100125548 | SUPPORT INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, SUPPORT INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND SUPPORT INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM - A support information providing apparatus narrows, when one task item belonging to one task step is to be executed, a plurality of support information candidates down to one support information candidate related to one task item to be executed, in accordance with a task status of a task item by a worker belonging to a task step ordered before one task step of one task item; and provides the narrowed-down support information candidate being related to the task item to be executed. | 05-20-2010 |
20100131459 | WORKFLOW EXECUTION SYSTEM, WORKFLOW EXECUTION APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THEM - In a system that realizes a workflow by a plurality of devices (workflow execution apparatuses) while cooperating with one another in serverless environment, the system enables search for a file used in the workflow, even if a file name used in the workflow of each device is changed. | 05-27-2010 |
20100145904 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A computer-based architecture and system provides operational control of the document management process, permitting a client seamless access to sophisticated document production operations. Direct client control over SEC compliant document management permits faster more accurate document production operations. | 06-10-2010 |
20100161549 | MASTERLESS DISTRIBUTED BATCH SCHEDULING ENGINE - A distributed, high availability scalable task execution framework that does not use a master. Each server periodically checks if there are new jobs that are scheduled to execute immediately and picks a task for execution. Multiple batch server configurations can be created and executed during a specific time period where each server can behave differently to provide improved response time to online users. Each server can be configured to execute a different number of parallel tasks during a time period, execute fewer tasks or no batch task at all, and then change server behavior to execute many tasks in parallel at a different time when there are no online users. Automatic transaction assists in task restart in the case of infrastructure failures. If infrastructure failure happens before the task completes, the transaction will be rolled back by the database automatically. | 06-24-2010 |
20100169269 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING COLLABORATIVE EDITING - Systems and methods are presented for providing collaborative editing. An embodiment collaboratively edits a computer file using a plurality of computers in a network, where the computers are connected using a token ring, each of the computers has a local copy, and a first computer has edited its local copy and performs the method. A token circulating around the token ring is captured, and a location of the edited portion of the local copy of the file is determined. The location is broadcast to the other computers. Conflicts are received from the other computers, and the conflicts from the other computers are reconciled with the edited portion of the local copy of the file to provide reconciled edits to the file. The local copy of the file is updated with the reconciled edits. A data packet with the reconciled edits is created and transmitted around the token ring. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169270 | DYNAMIC PERSISTENT ACTIVITIES IN ACTIVITY-CENTRIC COMPUTING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for managing dynamic and persistent activity objects in an activity in an activity-centric computing (ACC) system. In an embodiment of the invention, the system can include an ACC system executing in a host server coupled both to a data store of activities and external sources of dynamic content over a computer communications network. The ACC system can be configured to manage an activity structure for an activity in the data store of activities in that the activity structure can include a hierarchical arrangement of activity objects representing underlying static content. The system also can include a dynamic activity module coupled to the ACC system. The module can include program code enabled to insert into the activity structure a dynamic activity object subscribing to one of the external sources of dynamic content to render corresponding dynamic content received from the one of the external sources. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169271 | FILE SHARING METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND JOB SCHEDULER - Provided is a computer system including a plurality of computing hosts, which constructs a shared file system dynamically so that job execution efficiency is improved. In the computer system which includes the plurality of computing hosts and executes a job requested, in a case where the job is executed by the plurality of computing hosts, each computing host which executes the job is configured to: share a file necessary for executing the job; access the shared file to execute the requested job; and cancel the sharing of the file after execution of the requested job is completed. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169272 | Concurrent Engineering Conflict Manager - A conflict manager according to the present invention is provided for managing concurrent engineering. A common work area is provided and accessible by engineers who also maintain local work areas. The conflict manager immediately notifies users when a drawing file on the common work area is modified. The conflict manager further includes locking, versioning and conflict functionalities. | 07-01-2010 |
20100191701 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A BUSINESS PROCESS AND BUSINESS PROCESS CONTENT - Aspects of the invention relate to a method and system to manage a business process and business process content, comprising a content management system that includes efficiency-improving and workflow features. Efficiency-improving features allow several people involved in a business process, including those residing in different locations, to store and access documents in a central repository of a content management system. Further, these features manage business process content that include functions such as document handling and searching capabilities that allow users to navigate, search, and develop business content efficiently. In addition, the business process becomes a virtual electronic environment without the need for redundant physical files spread throughout different offices. Alternatively, workflow features allow personnel involved upstream of the business process to record and complete their own tasks, and then annotate and route documents to downstream personnel to facilitate their tasks as part of the business process. | 07-29-2010 |
20100198780 | COMPREHENSIVE COORDINATED ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for providing a comprehensive coordinated electronic document functionality by storing and providing access to at least one non-personalized electronic document and at least one personalized document, enabling at least one action with regard to the non-personalized document and the personalized document, and creating a record of the at least one action taken. The invention can be implemented via a stand-alone computing system or such a system interconnected with other platforms or data stores by a network, such as a corporate intranet, a local area network, or the internet. | 08-05-2010 |
20100205144 | CREATING SEARCHABLE REVISIONS OF A RESOURCE IN A REPOSITORY - A method of creating searchable revisions of a resource for a resource repository is disclosed where a first revision of a resource is generated in the resource repository. The first revision of the resource can be approved, but the first revision of the resource is not accessible to a consumer searching the resource repository until the first revision of the resource is approved. A second revision of the resource subsequent to the first revision of the resource is generated, but the second revision of the resource is not accessible to a consumer searching the resource repository until the second revision of the resource is approved. A searchable artifact in the resource repository is also generated for each revision of the resource in the resource repository. The searchable artifact for the first revision of the resource includes for an approval field that indicates the first revision of the resource is valid from when the first revision of the resource is approved to when the second revision of the resource is approved. | 08-12-2010 |
20100217745 | UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION AND DATA STORAGE SYSTEM - A system is provided for storing knowledge, information and data (KID). The system includes a plurality of sources of KID, at least one receiver of KID from the plurality of sources, a universal knowledge, information and data store and an interface coupling the receiver and the UKIDS. The interface provides a plurality of logical partitions for storing KID within the UKIDS. In one embodiment, a first level of the logical partitions segregates information into personal and professional KID. A plurality of second personal levels under the first personal level segregates KID storage into a teams of people subset, an activities and organization subset and an organization and administration subset. A plurality of second professional levels under said first professional level segregates KID storage into a clients subset, an output subset, a teams subset and an administration subset | 08-26-2010 |
20100217746 | Dynamic Workflow Documentation System - The dynamic workflow documentation system is a computer implemented process comprising the following steps: The dynamic workflow documentation system starts a workflow manager program, a class loader program in a computer memory and creates an instance of a workflow program in the computer memory. The dynamic workflow documentation system extracts metadata properties from the workflow program and records the metadata properties in the memory. The dynamic workflow documentation system notifies the workflow manager that a new instance of the workflow program has been created and repeats the steps of creating an instance of a workflow component program, extracting metadata properties, recording the metadata properties and notifying the workflow manager for all workflow components associated with the workflow program. Optionally, the dynamic workflow documentation system periodically polls the workflow program and associated workflow component programs and retrieves updated metadata properties which can be analyzed and used produce workflow status information. The status information can then be published as a file. Security and auditing functions of the dynamic workflow documentation system ensure that workflow programs execute according to the workflow requirements. | 08-26-2010 |
20100241611 | System and method for interactively collaborating within a secure online social networking community - Interactive collaboration within a secure, server-based social networking community integrated with a secured document management system includes at least one of a plurality of professional functionalities and a plurality of integrative functionalities to members having a member virtual identity within the community. Members may assemble into a network of members that excludes at least one member of the community. Integrative functionalities include allowing networks of members to share documents in a remote secured environment and exclude access to documents from those not belonging to a particular network. Members may also access software applications to remotely create, delete, edit and manage documents and view information about documents in a plurality of customizable and selectable viewing options. | 09-23-2010 |
20100250487 | Access to Line-of-Business Databases in Declarative Workflow - A first database and a second database have different schemas. An activity in a workflow accesses a data item in a list by invoking a method in an interface of a list object. The list comprises a collection of data items. Each data item in the list comprises an item key field specifying an item key. No two data items in the data item collection have item key fields specifying a shared item key. In addition, each data item in the list comprises a set of additional fields. Each field in the set of additional fields has a value derived from the first database or each field in the set of additional fields has a value derived from the second database. In this way, the activity can be implemented without knowledge of the different schemas of the first database and the second database. | 09-30-2010 |
20100262577 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED SECURITY ACCESS POLICY FOR A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method and system for providing an automated security access policy in a document management system are described. The security policies are applied based on metadata rules. Once a document is added to the document managements system, the metadata rules are evaluated using the metadata of the document. Based on the results of the evaluation security access policies are applied to the document. | 10-14-2010 |
20100268686 | System and method for student-centered learning - The subjective nature of student development provides numerous variables that make it difficult for teachers to understand the root cause of the problem areas for each student. Understanding what elements of instruction are understood by student provides teacher a significant edge on how to design instructional tactics that will allow student to effectively ascertain the lesson material on a cognitive level, thereby developing a student's understanding on how to apply lesson concepts and improve retention of the material needed in achieving high proficiency scores. | 10-21-2010 |
20100293136 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The present invention can realize easy transition from a task managed by a To-Do list to a workflow. When an unprocessed task stored in the To-Do list database is converted by an instruction into the workflow in the client software, a document management system of the present invention extracts a workflow definition including an activity corresponding to an unprocessed task to be converted by the instruction and notifies a client software of the workflow definition. When the client software selects the workflow definition, server software creates an instance of the workflow corresponding to the selected workflow definition, and applies information about the task to be converted, to the activity corresponding to the task to be converted in the instance of the workflow. | 11-18-2010 |
20110010332 | REPRESENTING AN OBJECT AS AN AGGREGATE OF IDENTIFIABLE PARTS SHAREABLE BY USERS OF A COLLABORATION SYSTEM - A computer that is programmed with collaboration software receives a change to be made to an object that can be of any type among several predetermined types such as message, document, contact, discussion and meeting. The object is represented as an aggregate of identifiable parts shareable by users, including at least a content part, a lock part, and an access-control part. Each version of the object is represented by a set of identifiers of these parts. In response to receipt of information identifying the change, the computer automatically identifies a specific part to be changed from among multiple parts of the object. Thereafter, the computer automatically creates a new instance of the specific part which contains the change as per the received information. The computer automatically stores a new version of the object as a new set that includes a new identifier of the new instance of the specific part. | 01-13-2011 |
20110010333 | REPRESENTING ATTACHMENTS OF OBJECTS IN A COLLABORATION SYSTEM USING METADATA COPIES - A computer that is programmed with software attaches one object (“from-object”) to another object (“to-object”) by preparing a new duplicate of certain metadata in the from-object, without copying any content of the from-object. The new duplicate metadata is stored in memory for use in identifying the from-object and the to-object as being attached. If the from-object itself has any existing attachments, e.g. to a group of additional objects, there already exists a group of existing metadatas that form existing attachments between the from-object and the group of additional objects. In such a case, the computer still prepares, without content copying, a group of new metadatas to identify the relationship between a corresponding additional object and the from-object. Some embodiments also identify the to-object within each metadata in the group of new metadatas, thereby to identify a path of objects through which an additional object is accessible. | 01-13-2011 |
20110010334 | SHARED STORAGE OF CATEGORIZATION, LABELING OR TAGGING OF OBJECTS IN A COLLABORATION SYSTEM - A computer that is programmed with collaboration software receives a new value of an attribute (or property or characteristic) which is specific to a label (or tag or category) as applied to an object managed by the computer. The computer does not use the new value to overwrite a corresponding old value in existing metadata. Instead, the computer is programmed to hold the new value in an incremental label application for the object. The computer is further programmed to respond to a request for the object's label application, by retrieving the incremental label application, and a full application of said label to said object. The computer uses attribute values in the incremental label application to update corresponding attribute values in a copy of the full label application, in a time sequence based on the time of creation of incremental label applications, thereby to generate a current label application. | 01-13-2011 |
20110010335 | COLLABORATION SWARMING - A swarm can develop around a piece of content. The swarm can include the original content, changes to the original content, the persons contributing the changes, and metadata, such as comments contributed by members of the swarm. A swarm can also include statistics generated about the content, such as the size of the swarm, the growth and/or death rates of the swarm, the longevity of the swarm, the intensity of the swarm, the persistence of the swarm, and the direction of the swarm. Swarms and their behaviors can be used to validate or invalidate content. | 01-13-2011 |
20110093432 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT OF DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICES - The subject application is directed to a document processing workflow system and method. On an associated display, a web output is generated and a document processing instructions is received for commencing an operation on a document processing device. A workflow manager commences a workflow instance based upon the received document processing instruction. The workflow instance includes ascertaining the status of the operation, generating an error signal based upon the status, and generating an image on the display that corresponds to the output of the document processing device resulting from the operation. The workflow instance also includes the receipt of a location specified by the user for a data storage that is associated with the operation, and exchanging electronic document data with the user-specified data storage location. | 04-21-2011 |
20110106753 | DOCUMENT MANAGING SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a document managing system includes a communication unit, a printing unit, a reading unit, a document-management-information storing unit, a discarding-information storing unit, an informing unit, and a management-information analyzing unit. The reading unit reads a document recorded on a recording medium and acquires a document file. The document-management-information storing unit stores, together with the document file, document management information including a confidentiality level of the document. The discarding-information storing unit stores plural kinds of discarding information for discarding a plurality of the recording media each of which is different depending on the confidentiality level of the document. The management-information analyzing unit acquires the discarding information corresponding to the confidentiality level of the document read by the reading unit and informing the discarding information from the informing unit. | 05-05-2011 |
20110113008 | Workflow automation system and method - The workflow automation system is a secure online web-based system that automates any office workflow in a minimal amount of time by providing appropriate customizations and ASP.net forms, the customizations including name of the system, task-names, role names, names of actions on each task, order of tasks, etc. After the customizations, the workflow automation system is executable to provide each role; a secure login with a central HR repository; an application that the role is responsible for; active task(s) in the application, etc. The desired web forms can be made in ASP.net using the provided templates for forms, and controls to define what to do when by whom. The workflow automation system includes automatic sending of e-mail reminders to complete tasks after certain administrator-defined intervals, application tracking, parallel and sequential task processing, easy concealment of certain role names from others, and an easy method to provide Instructions on each web page. | 05-12-2011 |
20110119229 | APPARATUS FOR CREATING WORKFLOW OF COMPOSITION WEB SERVICE AND FUNCTIONALITY INFORMATION CONSTRUCTION METHOD FOR CREATING WORKFLOW OF COMPOSITION WEB SERVICE - Provided are an apparatus for creating a workflow of a composition web service and a functionality information construction method for creating a workflow of a composition web service. The apparatus and method analyze procedural knowledge described in web documents to normalize and continuously accumulate functionality information required for performing a task, and automatically configure a workflow of a composition web service by combining pieces of the accumulated functionality information, thereby solving the problem of a discordance occurring when one composition web service is configured by dynamically combining multiple different web services. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119230 | Method for automatically associating contacts in an online social network - A method for creating and managing contact information in the context of an online social networking community. Each member of the social networking community creates a member profile containing contact information such as email address, telephone numbers, and street addresses. When a member joins a subgroup or secure network within the social networking community, the member's profile is shared with all other members of that secure network. The member's own contacts are also shared with all other members of the network such that one member of the network has access to all contacts of every other member of the network. Contact profiles are automatically updated as the owner of the profile provides new information to his or her profile. Duplicate entries are minimized by a matching feature that alerts members to the creation of possible duplicates and allows the members to merge, delete, or or ignore potential duplicate profiles. Members of a secure network who have shared contact profiles in this manner are able to collaborate on documents and projects within the context of the online social networking community. | 05-19-2011 |
20110131175 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREFOR - A document management system includes a memory and a controller. The memory stores access privilege information configured to define, for each display style of a document element displayed in an electronic document, privileges of users or user groups regarding access to a document element having a display style. In response to a request from a user to perform an operation on a document element in an electronic document, the controller controls whether the operation is executed or not on the document element, using the access privilege information stored in the memory, in accordance with a privilege among privileges of the users or user groups for a display style of the document element, the privilege being a privilege of the user or a user group to which the user belongs. | 06-02-2011 |
20110137854 | SYSTEM FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF FILES - The invention concerns a system and a procedure for the administration of files by using electronical data processing equipment that are connected with each other by a network. In order to provide a unitary system to solve all modern office- and communication tasks instead of using a multitude of programs, systems and devices, it is suggested with the invention that at least one data processing installation features a user-related container file system whose function is based on the fact that the files of a particular user are collected into one single data file, wherein the access to the files of the data file occurs depending on access rights and wherein an automatic comparison of the data files with a replica existent within the system is being performed. | 06-09-2011 |
20110153555 | Adapting a Workflow - A method for adapting a workflow of a content management system comprises setting an allowed action for a user, creating at least one information item depending on the allowed action for the user, in which the at least one information item comprises content to be published and a first information item status level indicative of a present status level of the content within the workflow, and executing the workflow which comprises stages each corresponding to a respective information item status level, such that a next stage of the workflow is determined based on a combination of different types of user status information, indicative of a status of the user, and the first information item status level. | 06-23-2011 |
20110161283 | NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A CHANGING ENTITY IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - The invention provides a system and method for a network operating system. The system includes a complex data medium that enables the continuous reconciliation of the collaborative information process and product. The system generally increases productivity by enabling a network dynamic among knowledge workers. The system unifies e-mail and shared file management, synchronous and asynchronous collaboration, serial and parallel work flow, top-down and bottom-up collaboration, and information lifecycle management. | 06-30-2011 |
20110167036 | NOVEL MEDIA FILE ACCESS AND STORAGE SOLUTION FOR MULTI-WORKSTATION/MULTI-PLATFORM NON-LINEAR VIDEO EDITING SYSTEMS - A novel system, method and computer program product for accessing digital media files stored in a media storage device via a server device in communication with the media storage device. The method provides a Project Sharing feature for enabling collaborative sharing of Non Linear Editing (NLE) Projects, even though the NLE application might normally define and save Projects as a single monolithic project file. The system and method provides a file directory and symlink scheme that allows ALL editors who are “members” of a Project Space to see all the bins created by all other editors, but controlling the WRITE ACCESS to the bins according to whose “User Folder” the bins resided in, i.e., a user-based locking scheme is provided to allow control over who can and cannot write to a file. The system and method further treats a single monolithic project file as a collection of smaller Project files, the permissions and ownerships of which could each be controlled independently. | 07-07-2011 |
20110173153 | Method and apparatus to import unstructured content into a content management system - A content management system having a repository of information organized according to an index file, a method of importing unstructured content comprising an XML or other template of configurable import rules to enable retrieval of information components of the unstructured content; ascertaining at least one structural attribute of the unstructured content; enabling a user to configure import rules according to the ascertained structural attribute(s); accessing and examining information components of the unstructured content according to the attribute(s); optionally tagging information components of the unstructured content according to a value of the accessed and examined information components; importing information components of the unstructured content into a repository of the content management system according to indices of the index file; identifying a workflow task with respect to the information components of the imported content; and processing a workflow task of the content management system relative to the imported content. | 07-14-2011 |
20110178981 | COLLECTING COMMUNITY FEEDBACK FOR COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENT DEVELOPMENT - A Web based community feedback collection tool. The Web based community feedback collection tool is programmed to establish the linkage between the traditional document editing tools (e.g., MS Word, Powerpoint) and a Web based community feedback collection tool. A writer could get the summarized feedback generated from Reader/Web community directly when they open the document through the traditional document editing tool. The reader could provide feedback directly as well when they read the document through the document editing tool. | 07-21-2011 |
20110184906 | Client Side Locking - A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user. | 07-28-2011 |
20110202501 | Methods and Systems for Network Based Address Book Based on Personal Cards - Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for reducing the amount of data stored in a network. This can occur by reducing the quantity of personal contact cards associated with an individual that are stored within a network by replacing the quantity of stored copies with links to the single copy on the network. | 08-18-2011 |
20110202502 | WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT METHOD AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A disclosed workflow management method includes a workflow starting step of determining a workflow based on one or more tags attached to a workflow document, attaching a status tag and a participant tag to the workflow document, and starting the workflow; and a review/approval step of requesting review and/or approval of the workflow document based on the status tag and the participant tag and updating the status tag and the participant tag after the review and/or approval. | 08-18-2011 |
20110225118 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONDITIONALLY SHARING AN OBJECT WITH ONE OR MORE ENTITIES - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for conditionally sharing an object with one or more entities. These mechanisms and methods for conditionally sharing an object with one or more entities can enable enhanced data sharing, simplified data security, etc. | 09-15-2011 |
20110238617 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A document management apparatus includes a document storing portion to store a document, a designated part accepting portion to accept any part designated by a user within the stored document as a designated part, an associating portion to associate the accepted designated part with a notification destination, an altering portion to alter the stored document, and a notifying portion to notify the notification destination associated with the designated part when at least a portion of an altered part altered within the stored document by the altering portion is included in the designated part. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238618 | Medical Collaboration System and Method - Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of medical collaboration. Some embodiments include a server application receiving and storing an image via an uploading application. In some embodiments, the image can be stored in a database, and upon receiving a request to view the image from a plurality of client applications, the image can be transmitted to the plurality of client applications so that each of the client applications can display the image. Some embodiments can include displaying an application interface on each of the plurality of client applications substantially simultaneously with the image. | 09-29-2011 |
20110258158 | Data Services Framework Workflow Processing - A data services framework workflow processing system and method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request for data from a client and based on the request, determining a workflow to process the request. The method also includes based on the workflow, generating a plurality of backend calls. Additionally, the method includes based on the plurality of backend calls, selecting one or more data sources from a plurality of data sources. The method also includes transmitting one or more of the plurality of backend calls to the selected data sources and receiving, from each the selected data sources, a response to the plurality of backend calls. | 10-20-2011 |
20110276535 | KNOWLEDGE ARTICLE WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT - A computer implemented method a document management workflow in a multi-tenant system environment is disclosed. The method includes receiving instructions to create a composition a document. The document is encapsulated in a knowledge article version and the knowledge article version having a document category. The knowledge article version is associated with a knowledge article. The method further includes invoking the document management workflow that is specific to the knowledge article, the knowledge article version and the document category and configuring the document management workflow to include a plurality of workflow steps based on the knowledge article, the knowledge article version and the document category. Each of the plurality of workflow steps are then associated with one or more triggers and actor roles. The actor roles define permissible actions in each of the plurality of workflow steps. Data in the knowledge article and the knowledge article version are configured to be updated with the movement of a document in the plurality of workflow steps. The document management workflow provides cyclic processing steps with no termination state. | 11-10-2011 |
20110282829 | WORKFLOW TASK ROUTING BASED ON CARDINALITY OF TASK DATA - A system and method for workflow task routing based on cardinality of task data, or the structure of elements in a business object associated with a task. In accordance with an embodiment, a system such as a human workflow system, that allows for the definition of human workflow tasks, can include a forEach construct within a human task routing definition and a payload. In scenarios that require a plurality of task of similar type be undertaken, such as a purchase order approval involving a plurality of items and potentially different approvers, the system allows for modeling a separate routing for each of those task items (e.g. the lines in the purchase order). In each of the branches of the forEach construct, complex routing patterns, such as parallel routing, can be used. The forEach construct allows creating of looping constructs at any level deep. | 11-17-2011 |
20110302133 | SHARING INFORMATION BETWEEN TENANTS OF A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE - In a method, system, and computer-readable medium having instructions for sharing information between tenants of a multi-tenant database, information is received on a connection between a first tenant of a multi-tenant database and a second tenant and the connection has information on a scope of data from the first tenant shared with the second tenant, data is allowed for a record of the first tenant to be accessible to the second tenant in accordance with the connection, information is received on a file related to the record of the first tenant, and data is allowed from the file to be accessible to the second tenant in accordance with the connection. | 12-08-2011 |
20120005155 | Case management system with automatic document update - A case management method is implemented by a computer processor for automatically controlling document-related operations within a plurality of data processing devices or computers connected and organized as an electronic network. The method includes automatically generating a request for an update file extension upon detection of a command to enter a document into the electronic network, inputting a response to the request including coding the document with an update file extension and entering and storing the document within the network in association with a filename identifier that includes the update file extension. | 01-05-2012 |
20120005156 | TRACKING AND VIEWING REVISION HISTORY ON A SECTION-BY-SECTION BASIS - In one embodiment, a file includes data that is divided into a plurality of sections, and each section may include metadata that includes the revision history for that section. A specific section of the file may be selected and its revision history queried. In response to such a query, the revision history for the selected section is extracted from the section metadata and may be displayed. If a portion of a section has been copied from a source section and pasted into a target section, the section metadata for the target section may be updated to include information about the source section. For each change to the section data, the section metadata may also include a version number, a revision date and time, a revision author and the actual insertion, deletion or other change to the section data. | 01-05-2012 |
20120005157 | IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM SERVICE CONFIGURATION - According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of operating an XML Document Management Server in an IP Multimedia Subsystem. The method comprises receiving a message from a user terminal requesting an XML document, the XML document conforming to a given structure and containing one or more service rules relating to a service, retrieving an XML document containing said service rules from a data storage entity. If the structure of the retrieved XML document differs from said given structure, adapting a rule or rules of the retrieved XML document such that the XML document conforms to said given structure, and sending the adapted XML document to the user terminal. | 01-05-2012 |
20120023063 | DOCUMENT TRACKING IN HETEROGENEOUS APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTS - A method of naming documents according to a document naming convention (DNC) includes receiving, from any of a plurality of data processing applications (DPAs) within an enterprise, a request for a document name and generating a document name “infix” portion in compliance with the DNC for inclusion in the document name. The prefix may be descriptive of a characteristic of the document and the suffix may indicate a document type, a document format, or both. The infix may include a fixed portion and a modifiable portion. The fixed portion may include a datestamp and a document unification identifier. The infix may include a variable portion that can be modified by a DPA that creates a new or modified document, but the name of the modified document maintains the fixed portion of the original document. | 01-26-2012 |
20120041922 | SHAREABLE CONTENT CONTAINER - A content container comprising content components operable to display a dynamic content based on data received from a data source may be shared by generating a shareable content container comprising shareable content components. The shareable content components may utilize a static copy of data instead of accessing the data source. In some cases, the shareable content components may determine accessibility to the data source. The data may be retrieved in ease the data source is accessible, and the static copy may be used in case the data source is not accessible. | 02-16-2012 |
20120072392 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - An electronic case file and document management system ( | 03-22-2012 |
20120089565 | Systems and Methods for Network-based Communication, Collaboration, and Documentation System - System and methods for the creation, organization, and retrieval of the categorized forms of communication between users and organizations based on relationships between projects. Any two users can establish a database link from one user's project database to another user's project database through an invitation and acceptance process. Once linked, a variety of communication types can be provided to the linked project databases, and each type of communication can have an associated set of workflow rules for managing how the communication is routed. The systems and methods disclosed herein can facilitate communications both inter-organizational and intra-organizational communications through the use of linked project databases. | 04-12-2012 |
20120101980 | SYNCHRONIZING ONLINE DOCUMENT EDITS - Online documents services are provided by application servers for editing by users. Documents are stored in component based structures in an application server's local memory to provide granularity in coauthoring and conflict resolution. Component level locking is utilized to minimize simultaneous user edit based conflicts and also to show presence of other users. Component based structure revisions are stored to capture component edits and synchronize upon document save actions. When edits are saved by one or more clients to the server, they can be saved to the current version of the server document, even if that document has changed from the version used to create the current representation on the client. | 04-26-2012 |
20120101981 | NOTIFICATION METHODS FOR NON-PROGRAMMATIC INTEGRATION SYSTEMS - Methods and systems for retrieving information from an unrelated application that includes receiving automatically, non-programmatically collected application data from a mapped location of a mapped source reference of the unrelated application; querying a computer-readable storage medium collected application data without user intervention; retrieving identifying data associated with documents stored in the computer-readable storage medium based upon the query; monitoring the collected application data from the mapped location for a change in the collected application data; and upon detecting the change, re-querying the computer-readable storage medium using the changed collected application data and retrieving identifying data associated with the documents based upon the re-query. | 04-26-2012 |
20120101982 | Rich Results Relevant to User Search Queries for Books - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for triggering rich results in response to publication queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a publication query. One or more publication search results are obtained. A rich result is triggered based on a score of the first-ranked publication result if it meets a threshold relative to other publication search results. The rich result is populated with additional metadata about the publication obtained from web resources and product resources from multiple corpora. The rich result is provided with the publication search results. | 04-26-2012 |
20120109883 | PRESERVING USER INTENT IN MERGING ORDERED OBJECTS - Algorithms are provided to determine a final sequence of objects based on separating the objects from a base sequence and two derived sequences into common objects appearing in all three sequences and non-common objects missing from at least one of the sequences, then determining the final order of the common objects, and using the positioning of the non-common objects relative to the common objects in the original sequences. The final sequence represents changes made by the two derived sequences to the base sequence. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109884 | ENHANCEMENT OF USER CREATED DOCUMENTS WITH SEARCH RESULTS - A non-transitory computer readable medium and a method for enhancing a document with search results, the method may include: displaying to a user, within a first screen of a split-screen interface, at least a portion of a document while displaying, within a second screen of the split-screen interface, at least one search result obtained from searching information sources that differ from the document; receiving a request from a user to copy at least a portion of at least one search result to the document; incorporating the portion of the at least one search result to the at least portion of the document thereby providing an amended document; receiving from the user a request to edit the amended document; and editing the amended document in response to the request. | 05-03-2012 |
20120136825 | METHOD OF PROVIDING AN INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM - This invention relates generally to an interactive entertainment system that provides at least two discrete, independent stories that are interactively intertwined through a variety of online or other interactive media whereby the user of the interactive entertainment system can participate by commenting, by contributing materials (in visual, photographic, video, audio, tactile or other sensory and cognitive formats), by responding to quizzes and polls, and by otherwise interacting with other users of the interactive entertainment system, or with characters in any story, as if the latter were real persons. | 05-31-2012 |
20120143817 | SOCIAL FILES - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for creating and sharing social files in an on-demand database service environment. In one embodiment, a first document file is received at a computing device configured to provide on-demand computing services via a network. The first document file may be capable of being displayed on a display device. The first document file may be stored on a storage medium accessible via the network. The first document file may be designated as being associated with a social file. A reference to the social file may be stored as a first one of a plurality of feed items in a feed table in a database. The feed items may be capable of being published in an information feed displayed on a display device. | 06-07-2012 |
20120173481 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UPDATING RELATED DOCUMENTS - The present disclosure is directed to updating related documents. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a notification of an intention to update to a predecessor document in a business process prior to receiving a specific update to the predecessor document. In response to at least the potential-update notification, a successor document in the business process is identified. The successor document depends on information identified by the predecessor document. Release of the successor document is substantially prevented in connection with the notification of the intent to update to the predecessor document. | 07-05-2012 |
20120179647 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-PARTY DOCUMENT REVISION - A system and method providing a multi-party document revision capability. A master electronic document (MED) may be established on a central computer platform. The MED is embedded with an unalterable document identification code (DIC) which clearly identifies the single instance of the MED. Parties having permission to access, modify, and approve the MED on the central computer platform are each provided with a unique identifier code (UIC) which is associated with the DIC and, therefore, the MED. Any permitted party having an assigned UIC may access the MED and enter proposed changes to the MED on the central computer platform. However, each party associated with the MED has to approve any proposed change before the proposed change is automatically entered as a formally accepted change into the MED. | 07-12-2012 |
20120191644 | Hosted system for enabling enterprises to build and operate online communities - A system to design, create integrate and operate online communities uses web-based participation technologies. Any content can have attributes that make it appear as any type of content. With this uniform content architecture, all user-generated content is treated as a post (or, more generally, a submission), and there is no need for a participant to author multiple entries for separate uses. Preferably, content created or otherwise associated with a particular author is intrinsically tied to the author via the author's profile. At each point of participation, the content is associated with the individual, which allows the system to build and maintain a rich “living” profile for each community member. Using this approach, the system can build and enable querying of so-called “social aggregations,” which are data sets that describe a relationship among one or more author attributes and one or more content attributes. | 07-26-2012 |
20120197837 | PERSONALIZED NETWORK SEARCHING - Personalized network searching, in which a search query is received from a user, and a request is received to personalize a search result. Responsive to the search query and the request to personalize the search result, a personalized search result is generated by searching a personalized search object. Responsive to the search query, a general search result is generated by searching the general search object. The personalized search result and the general search result are provided to a client device, an advertisement is selected based at least in part upon the personalized search object, and the advertisement, the personalized search result, and the general search result are displayed. | 08-02-2012 |
20120209803 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A document management system allows designation of process owners, approvers, trainers and users of specified documents. The system automatically notifies designated participants of documents to be created, documents awaiting approval, training required, training schedules, and tests. Notifications of approved documents are automatically sent to designated users and trainers for scheduling and tracking user training. The system accommodates requests for document revisions and justifications and allows custom reports to be created and tracked. The system allows for the creation of custom tests that are linked to documents and graded automatically to be used as a final phase of training. | 08-16-2012 |
20120215738 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR THE MANAGEMENT, STRUCTURING, AND ACCESS TO A LEGAL DOCUMENTS DATABASE - Systems and methods for management, structuring, and access to a legal document database. A single database of documents is accessible by a number of access servers for providing access to these documents for users. The documents and their contents are tagged and classified for ease of reference. Documents and sections of documents are tagged against specific topics and concepts. The topics are presented to users in a structured manner and are cross-referenced against relevant and related topics. A user can thus quickly access not just the most relevant documents but the most relevant sections of those documents when researching a topic. | 08-23-2012 |
20120233115 | REAL-TIME DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer system for document includes a SQL database for storing information related to the document review and a time-tracker portal for tracking time worked on the documents to be reviewed. A separate Document Management Application is provided for entering information into the database and a further User Interface is provided for managing the document review project. These combined applications are system agnostic and can be run on any operating system and on separate computers communicating over a network, e.g. the WWW. A key aspect of the system is the ability to track the time worked by document reviewers in near real-time, in contrast to previous hourly or quarter-hourly levels. The method of the present invention provides customized reporting and forecasting based upon numerous provided metrics or user-customizable metrics. | 09-13-2012 |
20120278276 | Collaborative Authoring - A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user. | 11-01-2012 |
20120284225 | AUTO-UPDATABLE DOCUMENT PARTS WITHIN CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Techniques are described for managing relationships between entities in a content management system. Embodiments of the invention identify a relationship between a first entity and a second entity in the content management system. Embodiments monitor the first entity in the content management system to detect an occurrence of a triggering event specified in one or more management rules. One or more actions specified by the one or more management rules are then performed on the second entity in the content management system, responsive to the detected occurrence of the triggering event. | 11-08-2012 |
20120290528 | DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING WEBDAV PROTOCOL - A document distribution system and method using a WebDAV protocol. The system includes a WebDAV server; and a first client to transmit a document to the WebDAV server using the WebDAV protocol, wherein the first client transmits the document to a predetermined directory of the WebDAV server. Accordingly, the document is transmitted to a specific folder of a document distribution system using the WebDAV protocol, so that the document distribution system can be configured without installing an additional file transmission protocol in the server. Also, various properties of data can be designated without modifying the data when transmitting the document. | 11-15-2012 |
20120323842 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GROWTH, PEER-REVIEW, AND MAINTENANCE OF NETWORK COLLABORATIVE RESOURCES - System and methods for managing collaborative content resources, such as blogs, collaborative portals, and encyclopedias. In one embodiment, the collaborative resources comprise so-called “wikis” managed within an encyclopedia environment comprising a group of curators. The curators sponsor, peer-review, and accept or reject articles written by experts. When an article is accepted, the senior author joins the group of curators. Each accepted article has a curator and a group of assistant curators. When a registered user modifies the article, the modification is not shown to the public until it is approved by the curator or at least one assistant curator of the article. Upon approval, the user joins the group of assistant curators of the article. Each user has a rank, which in one variant reflects the number of times the approval or rejection decision by the user coincided with the approval or rejection decision by the curator. | 12-20-2012 |
20120330886 | ANNOTATING COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION STRUCTURES - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to collaborative information object management and provide a method, system and computer program product for annotating collaborative information structures. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for annotating collaborative information structures can be provided. The method can include creating a collaborative information structure document (ISD) with each of an object section and an annotation section, adding a collaborative object in a collaborative computing environment to the object section of the collaborative ISD, adding an annotation for the collaborative ISD to the annotation section of the collaborative ISD, and storing the collaborative ISD for use as a collaborative object in the collaborative computing environment. | 12-27-2012 |
20130006919 | SHARED EDIT ACCESS OF ELECTRONIC CONTENT - In various embodiments, a computerized method includes presenting an electronic document to one user out of multiple users that have edit access to the electronic document as part of a collaborative editing of the electronic document. The computerized method may include receiving an input from the user to edit the electronic document, as well as invoking a lock to prevent edit access by the other users responsive to receiving the input from the user to edit the electronic document. | 01-03-2013 |
20130024418 | Systems And Methods Providing Collaborating Among A Plurality Of Users Each At A Respective Computing Appliance, And Providing Storage In Respective Data Layers Of Respective User Data, Provided Responsive To A Respective User Input, And Utilizing Event Processing Of Event Content Stored In The Data Layers - A plurality of computing appliances, each used by a respective user, provide for collaboration on a common project having an associated base image display. Data is stored in each of a plurality of separate respective data layers, of respective user data associated with a respective display for a respective user, responsive to user input. The user data is comprised of event content data (comprised of change reference data, and change content data, wherein the event content data is representative of a unique event, for each input by the respective user) generated in a defined order of entry relative to other of the events. Mapping logic defines a mapping of event content to corresponding respective data layers. A plurality of events is selected as a selected set of events. Event content data for said events in the selected set are retrieved from respective data layers, and used to generate presentation data. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024419 | COLLABORATION SWARMING - A swarm can develop around a piece of content. The swarm can include the original content, changes to the original content, the persons contributing the changes, and metadata, such as comments contributed by members of the swarm. A swarm can also include statistics generated about the content, such as the size of the swarm, the growth and/or death rates of the swarm, the longevity of the swarm, the intensity of the swarm, the persistence of the swarm, and the direction of the swarm. Swarms and their behaviors can be used to validate or invalidate content. | 01-24-2013 |
20130036086 | APPLICATION UPDATE SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for storing documents that are being tracked in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for storing documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing of the documents in association with a tag. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing can enable an efficient searching for a shared document. In an embodiment, the shared document is categorized upon being stored. | 02-07-2013 |
20130054514 | System and Method for Providing Offline Access in a Hosted Document Service - A request for a document is received at a user device while in an offline state. The request includes a public uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to a location remote from the user device. The user device launches an application that intercepts the request and selects one of multiple local caches based on the public URL. Each of the multiple local caches is associated with a private URL. The user device accesses the selected local caches via a corresponding private URL to retrieve an editor. The user device modifies a URL history to replace the private URL with a public URL and provides the document, via the editor, to the user device. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054515 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT ACCESS METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Provided is a document management system which allows a document management server to be accessed from a document management client terminal by using a database of the document management server as a backend engine, the document management system configured to determine an appropriate access method for opening a file. In order for the document management client terminal to open a file in the document management server having an exclusive control function, the document management system accesses the document management server according to file attribute information of the file held in the document management client terminal. | 02-28-2013 |
20130091090 | SEMANTIC WEB PORTAL AND PLATFORM - An application that enables users to effectively utilize and manage knowledge and data the user posses and allows other users to effectively and seamlessly benefit from the user's knowledge and data over a computer network is also disclosed. A method of processing content created by a user utilizing a semantic, ontology-driven portal on a computer network is described. The semantic portal application provides the user with a content base, such as a semantic form or meta-form, for creating a semantic posting. The semantic portal utilizes a knowledge data structure, such as a taxonomy or ontology, in preparing a semantic posting based on the information provided by the user via the content base. The semantic portal application prepares a preview of a semantic posting for evaluation by the user. The semantic posting is then either modified by the user or accepted and posted by the user for external parties to view. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091091 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A technique is provided in which, in a foreign language document in which a space character is provided for separation of words forming a document, it is possible to reliably detect each word separation and reliably reinsert a space character in the separation. It is decided whether adjacent characters are included in the same word (i.e., presence or absence of space) using: decision by an English writing rule, decision by information as to whether there is a space character in source document data; decision by the identification of character string objects including adjacent characters; and decision by a gap between the character string objects including the adjacent characters. It should be noted that it is preferable to make a decision by these processing in order of this description. | 04-11-2013 |
20130103639 | CREATING WEB APPLICATIONS USING CLOUD-BASED FRICTION-FREE DATABASES WITHOUT REQUIRING WEB HOSTING KNOWLEDGE - Creating web application using cloud-based friction-free databases without web hosting knowledge. User credentials are received at a web application service for initiating a web application task via client software. The user credentials are analyzed to determine whether to grant the user permission to initiate the requested web application task. The web application task is initiated when the permission is granted. Data associated with the initiated web application task is received at the web application service for analysis of the data to host and render a web application based solely on received data provided without basis of web hosting knowledge. | 04-25-2013 |
20130117220 | MULTI-MASTER TEXT SYNCHRONIZATION USING DELTAS - A server enforces a policy for selecting what received change to process. The non-selected changes are not processed by the server. Instead, after the selected change is processed and is incorporated into the current version of the text, the server sends an update to each of the clients indicating the change made to the current version of text. A client performs a conflict resolution procedure when its change was not processed by the server. The conflict resolution procedure detects the differences between the updated text version and its text change that was not accepted by the server and uses the differences to deduce the intent of the user and come up with a merged version of the text which preserves the intent and avoids data loss. The updated version is then sent back to the server to update the current version of the text. | 05-09-2013 |
20130124456 | MANAGING DOCUMENT WORKFLOW - Methods and apparatus for managing document workflow, including generating a nonce for providing participant access for a particular step of the document workflow, generating a first number of nonce elements, and assigning nonce elements to a plurality of participants of a step of the document workflow preceding the particular step in a one-to-one correspondence. The nonce is determinate from a number of the nonce elements that is greater than or equal to a second number and less than or equal to the first number. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124457 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF STORING, TRACKING AND DISSEMINATING DOCUMENTS RELATED TO FOOD PRODUCTS - An apparatus used to store, track and disseminate documents related to a food product is a repository that comprises electronic document generator, database, and query module is. The electronic document generator receives a document related to a food product and certificates related to the food product. The electronic document generator generates electronic document based on the document including the product information and also generates electronic copies of the certificates. The database is coupled to the electronic document generator and stores the electronic copies of the electronic document and the certificates. The query module is coupled to the database and receives a query related to the food product. The query includes data generated by document recognition or by QR Code scanning. The query module provides access to the electronic document and electronic copies of the certificates associated with the query. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124458 | RESOURCE EFFECTIVE INCREMENTAL UPDATING OF A REMOTE CLIENT WITH EVENTS WHICH OCCURRED VIA A CLOUD-ENABLED PLATFORM - System and method for incrementally notifying a remote client of updates in a cloud-enabled platform for each remote client associated with a collaborator are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for detecting an action in the cloud-enabled platform and effectuating a data change as a result of the action in a first database, creating an action log entry from the action, identifying the collaborator of the user's in the cloud-enabled platform, whose remote client is to be synchronized with the data change as an update, and/or writing the action represented by the action log entry to a second database into a queue to by read by the remote client of the collaborator. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124459 | WORKFLOW TEMPLATE MANAGEMENT FOR MEDICAL IMAGE DATA PROCESSING - According to one embodiment, workflow templates are stored, each including a predefined sequence of workflow stages associated with a particular type of medical diagnosis or process. Each workflow stage defines one or more image processing operations to be performed. At least one workflow stage generates metadata specifying a parameter to be used by another workflow stage for processing a corresponding medical image. In response to medical image data received, at least one of the image processing operations defined by the workflow stages is performed on the medical image data. A scene is generated for each of the workflow stages representing an image view representing the medical image data. In response to a save or validate command received from a user, the scene associated with each of the workflow stages is stored in a persistent storage, which can be used to recreate a corresponding medical image view subsequently. | 05-16-2013 |
20130132334 | Collaborative Data Management System for Engineering Design and Construction Projects - A collaborative data management system for engineering, design, and construction (EDC) projects is presented. The system includes a storage medium, a processor, executable code, a display, and an input device. The storage medium stores a plurality of EDC data objects and a plurality of relationship objects. The EDC data objects represent parameters relevant to EDC projects. The relationship objects represent relationships between EDC data objects. The processor and executable code are communicatively coupled with the storage medium and are configured to (i) display the relationship objects on the display and (ii) allow a user to manage synchronization of the EDC objects with the input device. | 05-23-2013 |
20130151466 | CONTROLLING ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS USING FILE LOCKS - Examples are related to systems and methods for controlling access to document files on a document server. One example system includes document files stored on a document server, at least one of the document files referencing a file lock, and a document access processing module. The example document access processing module includes a file sharing processing module that determines a coauthoring status of a software application of a client computer requesting access to the document file, and a file lock processing module that stores one or more file locks and that controls the setting and resetting of file locks. The example document access processing module uses the coauthoring status of the software application and the file lock status of a document file to determine whether a software application is permitted to have write access to the document file. | 06-13-2013 |
20130173530 | REVISION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - There is provided a file revision-control system, method and apparatus configured for storing and managing a revision history log, and for enabling to track and manage, compare and retrieve revisions including, current-revisions stored on a designated reference area, past-revisions stored in a predefined storage area and also past-revisions which were previously on a reference area. According to certain embodiments of the invention, each revision of a file is represented by a revision entry in a revision history log, which can be stored and managed in a designated data-repository. A revision entry stores data corresponding to at least one revision, while the revisions themselves may be stored on a designated data-repository. A progression path refers to one or more revision entries which represent the progression of a file over time. In case that a revision is branched into more than one revisions, each such revision will constitute a different progression path. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173531 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLABORATIVE STORYTELLING IN A VIRTUAL SPACE - User-submitted content (e.g., stories) may be associated with descriptive metadata (intersection metadata), such as a timeframe, location, tags, and so on. Story content is presented in a virtual space, such as a forum, chatroom, or the like. Users submit collaborative content as the story is presented in the virtual space. The collaborative content is synchronized to presentation of the story. An author may replay the presentation and synchronized collaborative content and/or select portions of the collaborative content for inclusion in the story. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173532 | Document collaborating method among multiple users - A document collaborating method among multiple users includes: for each user creating one or more types of message accounts correspondent to a username of the user, wherein each user is able to establish contacts or a collaborative group thereof; allocating a document initial version number to one or more documents which the user shares with the contacts or the collaborative group, saving an initial version of the document and then setting correspondent sharing permission and sharing time limit; and after finishing setting the sharing permission and the sharing time limit, automatically sending notification messages to the correspondent contacts or the correspondent collaborative group for readily notifying by the message account, and regularly reminding the sharing users to notice the time limit according to the sharing time limit by the message accounts of all sharing users of the shared document. | 07-04-2013 |
20130185252 | Document Revision Manager - Methods, systems, tools and computer program products are provided that enable a document revision management system to utilize lockless collaboration such that a plurality of users can edit a plurality of document versions concurrently. The system uses a directed acyclic graph to store information concerning ancestry of versions of related documents and to track revisions between parent and children versions. The system provides users the ability to save versions as private or published and to apply security parameters so that only certain users or groups of users may see specific revisions and/or versions. The system can redact portions of the revision history for non-authorized users. Automated publication notifications can be distributed by the system to document moderators to update them of available changes to documents. The system allows for automated merging of non-conflicting changes as well as moderated merging when human interaction is desired and/or required. | 07-18-2013 |
20130191326 | USER-EXTENSIBLE COMMON SCHEMA IN A SHARED DATABASE - A user-extensible common schema is described in the context of a shared database. In one example, an apparatus includes a shared database organized around a common schema. First and second applications provides access to the shared database using the common schema, the first and second applications having first and second schema extensions having first and second sets of additional objects, defined by the first and second applications, respectively. The first and second applications present views of and operations on the shared database that are extended by the respective schema extension. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191327 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING DOCUMENTS BETWEEN ON-DEMAND SERVICES - A method for sharing documents between on-demand services is provided. In an embodiment, a user of a first on-demand service may be able to view a list of content that includes content stored at the first on-demand service and content stored at a second on-demand service. The content of the second on-demand service may be associated with information about the content, allowing the content to be shared among multiple users of the first on-demand service. The user wanting to view the content, select or click on an indicator identifying the content, a connection to the second on-demand service is established, and images of the content are sent from the second on-demand service to the first on-demand service. | 07-25-2013 |
20130212062 | USING DOCUMENT TEMPLATES TO ASSEMBLE A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, to assemble a collection of documents according to a document list. The document list represents documents to be included in the collection, and includes multiple entries that identify document templates. Each document template includes instructions that a web server can execute to generate a web document based on one or more parameters. A web document corresponding to each of the multiple entries is requested; the requested web documents are received and stored in the collection of documents. Links in the received web documents can be identified and updated. The collection of documents can be accessed as part of a web site. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212063 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED CLOUD-BASED LITIGATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system for managing litigation documents including a computer-readable medium having a litigation management application. The application has computer-executable instructions for managing documents. The system includes a server that executes the instructions for managing documents on the computer-readable medium. The system has a database containing document information. The database is arranged with the server such that the server can access and modify document information in the database. The application includes a first documents tab that receives inputs from a first user to upload documents to the database for display in the first documents tab. The application has a second documents tab that receives inputs from a second user. The application generates a notification for delivery to the second user when the first user uploads a document to the database. The application can display the document in the second documents tab when the first user uploads the document to the database. | 08-15-2013 |
20130218829 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A document management system/method allowing coordinated synchronized modifications and secure, scalable, multi-level, and controlled access to Data Content and/or Documents (DCDS) over a computer network between multiple Content Owners and/or Reviewers (CORS) is disclosed. The system/method is configured to allow any number of CORS to share DCDS using a Content Collaboration Platform (CCP) while retaining complete DCDS integrity/retrieval control using a hierarchical Access Rights and Control List (ARCL) to prevent CORS from uncoordinated DCDS modification and prohibiting local maintenance of DCDS copies after the expiration of a CORS Data Access Session (DAS). Upon termination of a CORS DAS, the system synchronizes modifications to the DCDS and coordinates control information among various CORS to ensure proper return of the DCDS back to its original CORS owner and associated CORS storage location. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218830 | SHARING INFORMATION BETWEEN TENANTS OF A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE - In a method, system, and computer-readable medium having instructions for sharing information between tenants of a multi-tenant database, information is received on a connection between a first tenant of a multi-tenant database and a second tenant and the connection has information on a scope of data from the first tenant shared with the second tenant, data is allowed for a record of the first tenant to be accessible to the second tenant in accordance with the connection, information is received on a file related to the record of the first tenant, and data is allowed from the file to be accessible to the second tenant in accordance with the connection. | 08-22-2013 |
20130246343 | INVITING PARTICIPANTS IN AN ONLINE DOCUMENT SHARING COMMUNITY TO ACCEPT TERMS OF A NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT (NDA) TO ACCESS A DOCUMENT - Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for inviting participants in an online document sharing community to accept terms of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to access a document. Group information for a group created by an owner of a document indicates at least one document associated with the owner and at least one invitee. A join message is sent to the at least one invitee participant computer. The join message includes a description of the document that does not include all the content of the document and a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) requesting the invitee to accept terms of the NDA in order to access all of the content of the document. The content of the document is only provided to the invitee participant computer of the at least one invitee that has accepted the NDA. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246344 | PROVIDING ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS OF FRIENDS IN AN ONLINE DOCUMENT SHARING COMMUNITY BASED ON WHETHER THE FRIENDS' DOCUMENTS ARE PUBLIC OR PRIVATE - Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for providing access to documents of friends in an online document sharing community based on whether the friends' documents are public or private. A request is received from a requesting participant computer for a page. A determination is made, from participant information for the requesting participant, friends of the requesting participant and participant information in the database for the determined friends. A further determination is made of documents owned by the friends. A further determination is made as to whether document information for the determined documents owned by the friends indicates the documents as public or private. The page includes information on the friends and access elements to provide access to the content of the determined documents of the friends that are indicated as public. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246345 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE WORKFLOW IMPLEMENTATION - A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for online workflow implementation is provided. An input identifier identifying a digital content to be processed is received. A workflow identifier is also received, the work flow identifier identifying a workflow comprised of a plurality of ordered applications. The digital content is then processed in accordance with the workflow to generate a final output. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246346 | PROVIDING AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT COLLECTION - In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a request to access an electronic document collection that integrates a plurality of electronic sub-documents that are each of one of a plurality of defined document types. The method also includes retrieving information that is associated with the document collection, wherein the retrieved information identifies a first sub-document of the plurality of sub-documents using a first non-address identifier, and identifying a first software application that is configured to provide access to the first sub-document. The method additionally includes initiating a first connection with a first server that causes execution of the identified first software application and that, using the first non-address identifier, provides access to the first sub-document. The method further includes integrating access to the first sub-document into the document collection through the initiated first connection with the first server that causes execution of the first software application. | 09-19-2013 |
20130254157 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSOCIATING FILES WITH CELLS OF A COLLABORATIVE SPREADSHEET - One exemplary embodiment involves a computer-implemented method comprising receiving, in a computing device, a first request to attach a file in a cell of a collaborative spreadsheet, wherein the first request comprises the file and a cell identifier, and wherein the collaborative spreadsheet comprises a spreadsheet configured to be accessed and modified simultaneously from a plurality of client devices. The method additionally comprises attaching, via a processor, the file to the collaborative spreadsheet at the cell corresponding to the cell identifier; and storing the file on a cloud storage device, wherein the file is stored to be accessible in conjunction with the collaborative spreadsheet. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254158 | LITERARY OBJECT ORGANIZATION - An apparatus and method of organizing literary content include establishing a body of text of a literary object and subdividing the literary object into logical components. The apparatus and methods further include navigating among the logical components, wherein the components comprise text segments and associated time-line graphical representations of one or more content features of the logical components, sharing a portion of the literary object and/or the entire literary object with others and analyzing the one or more content features of the logical components on the basis of the text segments and associated time-line graphical representations. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262373 | Tracking Co-Authoring Conflicts Using Document Comments - A comment infrastructure for managing co-authoring conflict resolutions is provided. During co-authoring, multiple users may make edits to a document at the same time or users may merge edits to a document. Embodiments determine if changes submitted by a user conflict with previously submitted changes. If a conflict is found, the conflicting change may be saved to the document as a comment, allowing for the user to choose when to resolve the conflict. The original content and the different co-authoring edits may be displayed side-by-side, allowing users to make an informed decision about a desired resolution of a conflict. Additional commenting functionalities may be provided for allowing users to leave comments, replies, or messages associated with a co-authoring conflict, providing communication and collaboration between users about a best way to resolve a co-authoring conflict. | 10-03-2013 |
20130268480 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE SUBFOLDER SYNCHRONIZATION IN A CLOUD-BASED ENVIRONMENT - Techniques are disclosed for enabling selective subfolder synchronization in a cloud-based environment. In one embodiment, a method comprises, in response to a selection, from a user, of a first synchronization state of a first folder in a workspace, synchronizing content of the first folder associated with the user based on the first synchronization state regardless of a second synchronization state of a second folder in the workspace. The first folder is a subfolder of the second folder. The workspace is provided by a server of a cloud-based environment, and is shared among the user and one or more collaborators of the user. Among other advantages, embodiments disclosed herein provide fine-grained control to the users of a cloud collaboration environment over what folder(s) in their workspace is to be shared and/or synchronized. | 10-10-2013 |
20130297559 | STRUCTURED COAUTHORING - A system is presented for structured coauthoring of a document, the system comprising a server. The server includes one or more documents organized into sections, a document permissions module that stores user access permissions for each section of a document, a document update processing module that processes requests from a user to share document updates with other users and that processes requests from a user to receive document updates from other users and a document rendering module that renders a document for display on a client so that sections of the document are updated with shared document updates made by users. The user access permissions determine the extent to which a user can modify each section of the document. | 11-07-2013 |
20130304694 | REPOSITORY REDUNDANCY IMPLEMENTATION OF A SYSTEM WHICH INCREMENTALLY UPDATES CLIENTS WITH EVENTS THAT OCCURRED VIA A CLOUD-ENABLED PLATFORM - Techniques are disclosed for implementing repository redundancy in a system which incrementally updates remote clients with events that occurred in a cloud-enabled platform. In one embodiment, a method comprises comparing a local timestamp of an event with a remote timestamp of the event. The event is to be stored in a queue in a repository cluster to be read by a remote client. The method further comprises updating the local timestamp of the event if the comparing indicates that the remote timestamp is more recent than the local timestamp. Among other advantages, embodiments disclosed herein ensure that no event in an action log is missed or skipped by any of remote clients in a distributed action log framework system during a switchover from an active but failed server to a backup server, and require zero or minimal down time during the switchover, thereby providing robustness and serviceability to such system. | 11-14-2013 |
20130311420 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A UNIVERSAL ENDPOINT ADDRESS SCHEMA TO ROUTE DOCUMENTS AND MANAGE DOCUMENT WORKFLOWS - One example of the system and method described herein may provide a universal endpoint address schema to route documents and manage document workflows, which may include one or more encapsulated workflow packages. In particular, a globally unique endpoint address may be specified using the universal endpoint address schema to route documents to any addressable destination and link the documents to workflow steps, processing rules, and business intelligence that can enforce business constraints. Furthermore, the globally unique endpoint address may be specified using the universal endpoint address schema may be linked to tickets that request documents or document-related services from third-parties in cloud or virtualized data centers, whereby the universal endpoint address schema may extend the abilities that different organizations have to collaborate with one another. | 11-21-2013 |
20130318035 | METHODS AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR COMMUNICATING FILE MODIFICATIONS DURING A COLLABORATION EVENT - One example method for communicating a file modification during a collaboration event includes steps of a first computer communicating a file modification status request to a second computer, the status request including at least a file identifier and a file property. The second computer uses the file identifier from the request to identify a current property of a corresponding file. The second computer compares the current file property to the file property from the status request and communicates a response to the first computer when the current property does not match the property from the status request. | 11-28-2013 |
20130325795 | Systems and Methods for Dynamically Loading Web Fonts and Dynamic Availability for Fonts Based on Language Settings - In a collaborative online document environment, a first user device is provided access to a document, via a network. A second user device is provided access to the document via the network. A list of fonts available to the second user device is received. The list is transmitted to the first user device. A request is received from the first user device to provide at least one of the fonts identified in the list. The at least one font is provided to the first user device. | 12-05-2013 |
20130332409 | AUTOMATIC AND SEMI-AUTOMATIC TAGGING FEATURES OF WORK ITEMS IN A SHARED WORKSPACE FOR METADATA TRACKING IN A CLOUD-BASED CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH SELECTIVE OR OPTIONAL USER CONTRIBUTION - Systems and methods for supporting metadata for work items stored in a web-based content management system with collaboration environment are disclosed. Users uploading work items to a folder are not required to provide metadata for the work items. Collaborators of the folder can provide metadata to work items within the folder. | 12-12-2013 |
20130339292 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF BUILDING AUTOMATION SUBSYSTEMS - A computer-implemented system for facilitating communication between a plurality of building automation subsystems and a plurality of applications includes a first database storing a hierarchical model of a building automation system. The system further includes a messaging engine configured to receive a message from one of the disparate building automation subsystems and for one of the plurality of applications. The messaging engine is configured to use the information in the second database to transform the message into a standard format, to append the projected semantic type string to the transformed message, and to provide the transformed message to one of the plurality of applications. | 12-19-2013 |
20140006340 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WORKFLOW | 01-02-2014 |
20140006341 | Online Peer Review System and Method | 01-02-2014 |
20140012802 | WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER NETWORKS - A workflow management system for computer networks with a plurality of computers, with client computers connected via a network to a server that provides an IT-infrastructure, having: a first software/hardware device configured to prepare and manage workflows in a programmed fashion to select a sequence of functions necessary to process at least one object in the computer network, if needed parameterize and connect them, with their functional transitions controllable by a computer in the network in order to prepare a workflow from the sequence of functions. The first device preparing the workflow for an access to at least one electronic storage device in which templates are saved, a processor configured to execute workflows based on templates using the first device to process the object, with the workflow executed having access to a database device having actual data of the IT-infrastructure so the executed workflow can be enriched with actual data. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012803 | EVENT ANALYSIS APPARATUS, EVENT ANALYSIS METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - In order to analyze an event described in a document targeted for analysis, an event analysis apparatus ( | 01-09-2014 |
20140032485 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PROVIDE PORTABLE DATABASE FUNCTIONALITY IN AN ELECTRONIC FORM - A method and system to provide portable database functionality in an electronic form is described. The system may include a communications module and a portability module. The communications module may be configured to receive a request to generate an electronic form, the electronic form to include preloaded database information. The portability module may be configured to respond to the request by configuring the electronic form to include the preloaded database information obtained from a source database. The preloaded database information may be used for a variety of purposes at fill time, when one or more electronic form field values are being filled in by a user. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032486 | SELECTIVE PUBLICATION OF COLLABORATION DATA - Various embodiments described herein each include one or more of systems, methods, data structures, and software to replicate a document or workflow workspace, including comments and other data added by document or workflow participants. Some embodiments allow participants to create, view, and manipulate public comments and other actions and private comments and other actions addressed specifically to individual participants, but prevent participants from viewing comments addressed only to one or more other participants. In some embodiments, the document may be distributed to participants via whatever means are convenient. The document may contain knowledge of a comment repository holding comments or other workflow data. Some embodiments include downloading comments and other data from a repository, identifying which comments and other data is intended for display to a viewing participant, and displaying the identified comments and other data. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032487 | SETTING PRIVILEGES FOR COLLABORATIVE LISTS - In one example embodiment, a system and method is shown that includes receiving a collaborative list, the receiving including receiving a share structure that includes one or more members. Further, the system and method includes identifying at least one member of the share structure having access to structured data. Additionally, the system and method includes identifying privilege data associated with the at least one member indicating an access privilege to the collaborative list, the collaborative list including the structured data. Moreover, the system and method includes selectively receiving the structured data based on the access privilege associated with the at least one member. The system and method also includes displaying the structured data in a first display area of the GUI. In addition, the system and method also includes displaying the share structure in a second display area of the GUI. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032488 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENTS - A method and apparatus for processing collaborative documents providing a portable document version which may be processed when not connected to the collaborative document. The collaborative document is accessible to users through a network. Updates to the collaborative document are provided to the portable document, which may be modified to include the updates or replaced with an updated version of the collaborative document. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032489 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIEWING COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENTS - A method and apparatus for viewing a collaborative document and a portable document at a device in a network. The collaborative document is hosted on a server and accessible through a network. The device hosts a corresponding portable document. The document processing application allows viewing of the portable document and the collaborative document on the device, wherein the user may select the desired view. In one embodiment, each view is displayed as a tabbed window, and switching views is enabled by selection of a tab. When the device is disconnected from the network, the user may view and process the portable document. | 01-30-2014 |
20140067753 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, TRAIL COLLECTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a sample extracting unit, a trail information memory, a trail acquisition instructing unit, a trail accepting unit, and a trail determining unit. The sample extracting unit extracts samples from a population. The trail information memory stores information about trails. The trail acquisition instructing unit provides an instruction to acquire a trail for a sample extracted by the sample extracting unit. The trail accepting unit accepts trails. The trail determining unit determines, every time the trail accepting unit accepts a trail, whether the accepted trail is valid or invalid in accordance with the information stored in the trail information memory. If the trail determining unit determines that the accepted trail is invalid, the trail acquisition instructing unit provides again an instruction to acquire a trail. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067754 | PERSONALIZED NETWORK SEARCHING - Personalized network searching, in which a search query is received from a user, and a request is received to personalize a search result. Responsive to the search query and the request to personalize the search result, a personalized search result is generated by searching a personalized search object. Responsive to the search query, a general search result is generated by searching the general search object. The personalized search result and the general search result are provided to a client device, an advertisement is selected based at least in part upon the personalized search object, and the advertisement, the personalized search result, and the general search result are displayed. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074773 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSET INTEREST DETERMINATION - A system for generating applicable electronically transmissible documents includes an applicability service that determines electronically transmissible documents from an electronically transmissible document reference library that are most likely to result in revenues when provided to the user of a website. The applicability service may determine the applicable electronically transmissible documents based upon a number of specifications provided by a website publisher, the electronically transmissible document provider, an electronically transmissible document owner, and/or the user accessing the website. | 03-13-2014 |
20140081904 | Systems And Methods Of Collaboration Comprising, Providing A Presentation Of An Underlying Image; Generating Annotation Data Representative Of Annotations Made By A Respective User, Generating Events Comprising Event Content, Then Defining A Selected Set Of Events, And Generating A Display Presentation Responsive To Processing Said Selected Set Of Events - A system, comprised of at least two computing appliances, is provided for use by a plurality of users. Each of the at least two computing appliances provides a presentation of an underlying image. Each input apparatus is responsive to an input made by a respective user thereof, to generate respective annotation data representative of annotations made by at an associated location on the presentation display of the underlying image. An event generator, responsive to the annotation data, generates events comprising event content generated in an entry order of input that is stored in event storage. Selection logic defines a selected set of events (that can comprise less than all the events within the entry order of input). Display assembly logic generates display data responsive to processing the event content for the events in said selected set of events. A display presentation is generated responsive to the display data. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081905 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRUNING AUDIO BASED ON MULTI-SENSOR ANALYSIS - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided in order to compose audio signals for content in a multi-user environment that provide a high quality audio signal that best represents the content as captured and uploaded by the plurality of users. In the context of a method, audio and/or video content is captured and selected to be uploaded to be shared with other users. The method may analyze the audio signals for a set of uploaded content and determine segments of the analyzed signals that should be pruned. The method uses the signal pruning data to replace or enhance segments of one or more signals to generate a composed signal that is to be shared with other end users. A corresponding apparatus and a computer program product are also provided. | 03-20-2014 |
20140101094 | ENHANCED QUICK SEARCH FEATURES, LOW-BARRIER COMMENTING/INTERACTIVE FEATURES IN A COLLABORATION PLATFORM - Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for enhanced quick search features, low-barrier comenting/interactive features in a collaboration platform, which may be a cloud-based platform. The disclosed technology enhances the user experience (both web and mobile user experience) by providing the ease with which the manner in which content and users can be discovered and browsed. Additionally, enhanced social features surrounding content is also disclosed. The disclosed technology further enhances the user experience by providing the ability to ‘like’ a file as a quick, easy way users/collaborators can note approval, attention, or preference of a file/work item. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101095 | SELECTION OF CONTENT FOR SHARING - Selection of content for sharing is described. An indication of desired content to be shared between a first database and a second database is sent from the first database to the second database. The first database receives desired content corresponding to the indication and a relevancy determination corresponding to a threshold fraction of users that tag the desired content to a particular category. A first version of the desired content is identified in the first database. A second version of the desired content is received by the first database from the second database upon an identification, at the second database, of the second version of the desired content. | 04-10-2014 |
20140114911 | COOPERATION SYSTEM USING OPEN PUBLIC NETWORK - There is disclosed a collaboration system using an open public network for providing collaboration services among a plurality of enterprises including a server configured to implement a plurality of processes for the collaboration services; a user terminal connecting to the server via the open public network to restrictedly uses data generated by the processes according to a user permission; and a database configured to store the data generated by the processes, wherein the server implements the processes comprising a project development process, a data change process, a general business process and a collaboration process, and the server restrictedly messages an event generated during the implementation of the processes to the user terminal according to the user permission. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114912 | DOCUMENT SYNCHRONIZATION SOLUTION - A method for synchronizing a database with displayed data, includes providing a data feed to receive data from the database to provide displayed document data, detecting a database change to the data within the database by a database synchronizer to provide a change event, polling the database synchronizer using an HTTP message to detect the change event, and pushing the database change to the displayed document data to update the displayed document data in accordance with the database change and the polling. The polling includes long polling and short polling. A polling servlet within the database synchronizer performs the polling by the database synchronizer. The database synchronizer updates the displayed document data by way of a data structure. The data structure is a queue. | 04-24-2014 |
20140164315 | System And Method For The Creation Of, Automatic Synchronization Of, And Access To Multi-Cloud Documents That Reside Across Dissimilar Clouds, Devices, And Operating Systems And That Are Accessed By Multiple Dissimilar Applications - System and services are described that permit the creation of “multi-cloud documents.” Multiple synchronized copies of a single document may be synchronized across dissimilar clouds, devices (both mobile and stationary), and operating systems. This may be implemented using software on the devices, in conjunction with an intermediate cloud. Multi-cloud documents may also be shared with other uses using dissimilar clouds, devices, or applications. Documents may be locked on a fine-structured level to minimize the possibility of edit collisions. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164316 | SYSTEMS, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIA, AND COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR PROJECT SHARING - A system enables sharing and locking of metadata defining a NLE project. The system controls write access of metadata by transferring ownership of the metadata between various editor users through an intermediary of a server user. Transfers of ownership of metadata are initiated by editor users. Each editor user is enabled to (a) assume ownership of metadata owned by the server user; and (b) relinquish ownership of metadata he or she owns to the server user. Editor users are only permitted to modify metadata that they own, thereby forming a “check in” and “check out” system for controlling write access to metadata. In effect, metadata is “checked in” when an editor user cedes ownership of the metadata to the server user. Metadata owned by the server user is “checked out” when an editor user assumes ownership of the metadata by taking ownership of the metadata away from the server user. | 06-12-2014 |
20140201131 | TECHNIQUES PERTAINING TO DOCUMENT CREATION - Disclosed are techniques pertaining to the creation of a social document through a collaboration. A server executing a social document management application may create a document comprised of content. The social document management application may also create an adhoc workflow process associated with the document in which the workflow process includes steps to create the content of the document. Collaborators may be assigned to work on the steps of the workflow process. In addition, tasks associated with the steps of the workflow process may be assigned to the collaborators and tracked. The tasks may be assigned by selecting content directly within the document and assigning a task pertaining to the selected content. The steps of the workflow process may then be approved. | 07-17-2014 |
20140207730 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A COLLABORATION PLACE INTERFACE INCLUDING DATA THAT IS PERSISTENT AFTER A CLIENT IS LONGER IN THE COLLABORATION PLACE AMONG A PLURALITY OF CLIENTS - In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods provide a client-server infrastructure capable of supporting a variety of asynchronous and synchronous collaboration activities in a so-called collaboration place. Some of these activities include chatting, viewing and/or editing one or more data files, and sharing one or more applications, data files, and/or displays. The client-server infrastructure supports seamless navigation between the supported asynchronous and synchronous activities in the collaboration place. Additionally, the client-server architecture supports data persistence, so that data files associated with the collaboration place can be stored for subsequent access. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214756 | ARBITRATING AMONG CONCURRENT EDITORS OF SHARED DOCUMENTS - A method for managing an electronic document (ED) concurrently accessed by multiple editors includes receiving a first chunk size for the ED, partitioning the ED into chunks, and receiving, from an editor, a selection of a first chunk, where the first chunk is of the first chunk size. The method further includes locking the first chunk in response to determining that the first chunk is available for editing, sending, to the first editor, a first message indicating that the first chunk has been locked, and sending, to a second editor, a second message indicating that the first chunk has been locked. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214757 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING USER DEVICE-BASED MASHUP SERVICES - An apparatus for providing mashup services searches a database for a mashup service corresponding to a request for a mashup service when the request is received from a user device, generates a mashup service optimized for the user device using a service block capable of executing a workflow corresponding to the mashup service and the runtime library of the user device if, as a result of the search, a mashup service corresponding to the request is not stored in the database, and provides the generated mashup service to the user device. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214758 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT OF TECHNICAL DIGITAL DOCUMENTS AND DRAWINGS - The embodiments herein provide a method and system for automating the document control business process in an organization particularly the ones that are participating in infrastructure and/or large projects. The automatic method and system fetches information and data from the different data sources such as E-mails or web-applications and/or other data sources. The quality checks are performed as per the expected standards to validate the completeness of information to fetch the information as contained inside the documents received to perform the various actions associated with the received information such as further processing, acknowledgement, record updates etc. The business logic and rules are applied on the information to create automatically the business deliverables as reports, document transmittal notes, and acknowledgement notes etc., that are expected from a well-functioning document control center in an organization. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214759 | TRANSACTION DOCUMENT STORAGE - The present disclosure concerns computing systems of financial institutions and computing systems that interact and support functions of financial institutions, including the exchange of documents between two users of the system. When implemented as a computer the computer provides access for a user to a document. The computer receives from a sending party document data and a user identifier and determines a document identifier and the receiving financial institution. The computer then sends to a receiving financial institution the document identifier and the user identifier causing the receiving financial institution to display information related to the document identifier to the user such that the user can request the document. The computer then receives from the receiving financial institution a request from the user for the document. The computer determines a document reference and a document storage provider and provides access to the document. | 07-31-2014 |
20140236885 | PUBLISHING ACTIVITY TASKS IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - A method, system and apparatus for publishing activity tasks in a collaborative environment can include the step of publishing selected activity tasks for status viewing by other collaborators in the collaborative environment. In one aspect of the invention, the publishing step can include the step of publishing selected activity tasks for viewing by a subset of the collaborators in the collaborative environment. In another aspect of the invention, the publishing step can include the step of publishing selected activity tasks for viewing by the collaborators in the collaborative environment only for a specified duration. In yet another aspect of the invention, the publishing step can include both publishing selected activity tasks for viewing by the collaborators in the collaborative environment, and periodically updating a status for each of the selected activity tasks. | 08-21-2014 |
20140244574 | ENABLING DYNAMIC POLYMORPHIC ASSET CREATION AND REUSE - An asset within a repository can be identified. The asset can be an electronic file. The asset can include an asset content and an asset metadata. The asset content can include a static content and a dynamic content. The asset can be semantically disassembled into one or more assemblies. The assemblies can each include an asset data and an assembly data. The assembly data can include an assembly identifier, an assembly rule, or an asset data source. A data container format associated with the asset content can be determined. The data container can be a computing data structure. The asset content can be dynamically presented within a different data container format in accordance with the request. | 08-28-2014 |
20140250058 | SMART CONTENT FEEDS FOR DOCUMENT COLLABORATION - Example embodiments relate to smart content feeds for document collaboration. In example embodiments, a user may use a system to perform a search of a document repository in order to identify related content for adding to a target document. In response to a user approving the related content identified in the search, the system may create a reference data entry that includes a timestamp and a storage location of a source document that contains the related content. The system may then use the timestamp to detect that a modification of the source document has occurred and generate a notification for the user that describes the modification. | 09-04-2014 |
20140258213 | AUTONOMIC COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACE CREATION - Systems and methods provide for autonomic collaborative workspace creation. Patterns of artifact usage for a plurality of workspaces over a plurality of collaborative interactions may be determined. Some of the multitude of collaborative interactions may be between a subset of the plurality of workspaces. A workspace may be initialized with artifacts for a scheduled collaboration based on the patterns of artifact usage. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258214 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION REGISTRATION METHOD, AND CONFERENCE APPARATUS - An information processing system has a conference apparatus, a document management apparatus, and a plurality of terminal apparatuses interconnected via a network. The information processing system includes a conference information management unit that prompts the conference apparatus to manage conference information including information on an electronic conference, content shared by the terminal apparatuses at the electronic conference, and additional information added to the content at the terminal apparatuses; a document registration unit that registers document information corresponding to the conference information managed by the conference apparatus in the document management apparatus and prompts a transition from management by the conference apparatus to management by the document management apparatus; a document information management unit that manages the document information; and a display control unit that prompts the terminal apparatuses to visually display the additional information added to the content using the additional information included in the document information. | 09-11-2014 |
20140279842 | INFERRING A SEQUENCE OF EDITING OPERATIONS TO FACILITATE MERGING VERSIONS OF A SHARED DOCUMENT - The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that infers a sequence of editing operations that were applied to a document to produce an updated version of the document. During operation, the system computes a minimum edit distance between the document and the updated version of the document. During this process, the system associates a block cost with each contiguous block of characters that is changed by an editing operation and also a character cost with each character that is changed. Next, the system uses information stored during the computation to determine the sequence of editing operations which were used to achieve the minimum edit distance. The system communicates the sequence of editing operations to a remote computing device, wherein the remote computing device uses an operational transformation technique to transform the sequence of editing operations before applying the transformed sequence of editing operations to a remote version of the document. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279843 | Method and System for Document Retrieval with Selective Document Comparison - This invention discloses a novel system and method for displaying electronic documents on remote devices and enabling collaborative editing where the system upon a request by a user to access a document, automatically determines the latest version of a document that the person had accessed and also whether a newer version had been created. The invention also merges parallel changes that have not been viewed by the user into the comparison result. The invention also includes running a comparison on the two versions and presenting the result to the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279844 | AVAILABLE, SCALABLE, AND TUNABLE DOCUMENT-ORIENTED STORAGE SERVICES - An application on a device may interact with a document service that provides access to a document service. The interaction may occur in a variety of contexts, such as a device context (e.g., the document service and the application provided on the same device), a local context (e.g., via a LAN), and a remote context (e.g., over the Internet). It may be advantageous to adapt the interaction to the current context, while also providing a consistent application interface that alleviates the application from context-specific implementations, and also achieving this adaptation in a performant manner. These considerations may be achieved in a balanced manner by providing a set of runtimes, where each runtime mediates the application/document service interaction between the application and the document service in a contextually adapted manner. The device may automatically detect the context of the interaction and select a contextually suitable runtime to service the application. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279845 | EDITABLE AND SEARCHABLE MARKUP PAGES AUTOMATICALLY POPULATED THROUGH USER QUERY MONITORING - Disclosed are a method, a device and/or a system of editable and searchable markup pages automatically populated through query monitoring of users of a database. In one aspect, a method includes automatically generating an editable markup page and/or a page name based on an initial query of a database using a processor and a memory, associating the generated markup page with a user of the database, and appending information to the editable markup page based on a similar query of the database by another user. The method may include permitting other users of the database to access, modify, append, and/or delete entries from the editable mark-up page. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279846 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILE SHARING AND UPDATING - Embodiments of the present invention include a method and system for sharing changes made by an application to a file on one computer, coherently with other computers, over the Internet. If the application changes multiple files (also referred to as a file group), changes made to all the files are shared together coherently with other computers over the Internet. Coherence over multiple file copies and file group copies is maintained whether users work on files online or offline. A ‘File Upload Lock’ is maintained on a Cloud Server for ensuring coherent sharing of changes made to files. Embodiments include two file syncing processes, variously described as ‘Incremental File Upload’ or ‘Incremental File Download’ and ‘Delta File Upload’ or ‘Delta File Download’. Embodiments also encompass an ‘Explorer’ software tool and user interface that displays folders and files on user devices with pertinent details from the device and the Cloud Server. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289185 | Apparatus and Method for Policy Based Rebalancing in a Distributed Document-Oriented Database - A method includes storing a partition of a distributed document-oriented database in a computer. It is determined whether an assignment policy is unsatisfied, where the assignment policy specifies locations for documents within the distributed document-oriented database. A request for a transfer transaction to move a document from the computer is initiated when the assignment policy is unsatisfied. There is a wait for an indication of a transfer transaction commit or a transfer transaction abort. The transfer transaction is completed in the event of a transfer transaction commit, such that the document is moved from the computer. The transfer transaction is aborted in the event of a transfer transaction abort, such that the document remains at the computer. | 09-25-2014 |
20140317049 | AUTOMATIC REDACTION OF CONTENT FOR ALTERNATE REVIEWERS IN DOCUMENT WORKFLOW SOLUTIONS - A document workflow management system monitors progress of a document as it moves between various personnel to whom workflow actions have been assigned. It may send the document to the alternate person and then return the document to the original workflow when the alternate person has completed the action. If the document includes content that is subject to an access restriction, it will automatically redact that content before sending it to the alternate person, and it may return the content to the document when the document returns to the original workflow. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317050 | ENSURING ACCESS TO LONG-TERM STORED ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - Mechanisms are provided for ensuring access to long-term stored electronic documents. In one example, one or more methods may provide for automatically ensuring access to long-term stored electronic documents. In another example, one or more algorithms may provide for automatically ensuring access to long-term stored electronic documents. | 10-23-2014 |
20140324769 | DOCUMENT DRIVEN METHODS OF MANAGING THE CONTENT OF DATABASES THAT CONTAIN INFORMATION RELATING TO SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS - One illustrative method disclosed herein includes storing a semiconductor manufacturing document in a document management system, wherein the semiconductor manufacturing document comprises semiconductor manufacturing data, and actuating an extractor tool to extract at least a portion of the semiconductor manufacturing data from the semiconductor manufacturing document and transfer the extracted semiconductor manufacturing data to at least one table in the semiconductor manufacturing database. | 10-30-2014 |
20140337278 | MANAGING CONFLICTED COPIES - Various embodiments provide a method of managing and preventing conflicted copies of a content item. For example, as changes are made to a content item, either by multiple users simultaneously or by a single user utilizing multiple devices, conflicted copies can be inadvertently created. These conflicted copes are multiple copies of the same content item where each copy may separately contain unique changes. Heuristics can be used to help users more easily avoid or manage these conflicted copies. In one example, a user could be notified and shown the difference between copies to either accept or reject changes. Further, users could also be notified when modifying a content item on a device that has not been synchronized in a determined period of time, or when the content item is known to be modified but the changes have yet to be synchronized to the device. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337279 | MANAGEMENT OF COLLABORATIVE TEAMS - Systems and methods for dynamically creating collaborative teams and managing collaborative work of a team are generally disclosed herein. One example embodiment includes the dynamic creation of a collaborative team by creating an association between team members via a managing module. The managing module may be capable of managing, among other things, team members on a team, tasks and goals of each member of the team, as well as documentation associated with the team. In some embodiments, the managing module may use a chat or messaging protocol to manage collaborative modifications to documents of the team. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337280 | Systems and Methods for Data Analysis - Described herein are methods and systems for hierarchically mapping, ranking, and labeling data sets automatically. Also provided are methods for browsing and navigating a hierarchically mapped data set, and START identifying changes in network structure over time. An example method may involve receiving document data indicating a corpus of documents and references between documents within the corpus. Based on the document data, a network comprising two or more nodes and at least one directed edge may be determined. Also, a hierarchical partition of the documents may be determined based on the directed edges of the network. The hierarchical partition may define a plurality of nested modules, and each module in the plurality of nested modules may be associated with one or more respective documents within the corpus. The method may additionally include causing a graphical display to provide a visual indication of one or more of the plurality of nested modules. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337281 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING DOCUMENTS BETWEEN ON-DEMAND SERVICES - A method for sharing documents between on-demand services is provided. In an embodiment, a user of a first on-demand service may be able to view a list of content that includes content stored at the first on-demand service and content stored at a second on-demand service. The content of the second on-demand service may be associated with information about the content, allowing the content to be shared among multiple users of the first on-demand service. The user wanting to view the content, select or click on an indicator identifying the content, a connection to the second on-demand service is established, and images of the content are sent from the second on-demand service to the first on-demand service. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344212 | Intelligent Indexing - Methods and systems may provide for monitoring shared content for changes by a plurality of users and selecting a subset of the shared content based on one or more collaboration characteristics associated with the changes by the plurality of users. In addition, an indexing schedule may be determined for the subset of the shared content based on the one or more collaboration characteristics. In one example, the collaboration characteristics include one or more user roles associated with one or more of the plurality of users, an operation type, a number of users making the changes and/or a frequency of the changes by the plurality of users. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344213 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING, CONNECTING AND ANALYZING DATA IN AN ONLINE COLLABORATIVE WEBPAGE - The subject matter discloses a method for displaying text in a collaborative web platform for discussions, comprising receiving a set of data items to be added to the web page, said set of data items is related to a subject already displayed in the collaborative web page, an object connected to said subject, a relation data unit for defining the relation between the object and the subject and a direction unit for defining the direction of the relation between the object and the subject and automatically adding the received set of data items to a semantic database that represents subjects of the collaborative web page and displaying the set of data items in the collaborative web page. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344214 | DYNAMIC BINDING OF PRINCIPAL SERVICES IN A CROSS-ENTERPRISE BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for dynamically binding principal services to activities in a business process in a cross-enterprise business process management system. In a preferred aspect of the invention, the system can include a business process specification document processing engine configured to process business process specification documents in which each of the documents defines a business process. A deployment service can be coupled to the engine and programmed to generate and deploy partner link instances for corresponding partner links specified in the documents. Finally, a link base authority can be configured to notify each partner link instance when an endpoint reference to a principal service has changed. Notably, the business process specification documents can include BPEL documents. As such, the business process specification document processing engine can include a BPEL4WS run-time engine. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344215 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INVITING SUBSCRIPTION TO CONTACT INFORMATION - Disclosed is a method of efficiently inviting a subscription to contact information, the method including receiving a subscription invitation request of particular contact information of a first client from the first client; and determining whether a condition for allowing the subscription to the particular contact information is included in the subscription invitation request, and transmitting a subscription request containing address information by which the condition and the particular contact information can be received to a second client when the condition is included. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a communication service at a high speed in a communication system supporting various types of communication services without a waste of resources, power, or memories. Also, it is possible to provide a data transmission/reception method capable of easily and quickly providing a CAB service according to a selection by user's intention. | 11-20-2014 |
20140365426 | COMPUTERIZED SHARING OF DIGITAL ASSET LOCALIZATION BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS - A computerized system and method provides for sharing digital assets among multiple different organizations in a multi-organization system, and further providing that one or more of localized digital assets can be assembled using digital assets, templates and rules specified by different organizations. Further, the various organizations can contribute and share digital assets with organizations, while controlling the localization of the asset with brand or other information both as specified by the provider organization and as specified by the user organization. | 12-11-2014 |
20140372369 | Managing Changes to Shared Electronic Documents Using Change History - Embodiments are disclosed for a system to manage changes to a shared electronic document. In embodiments, a client side method is used to manage changes to a shared electronic document. The method includes receiving a change to a locally stored rendition of a shared electronic document, and updating a change history. In embodiments, the change history captures the change made to the locally stored rendition of a shared electronic document. The method also includes sending information regarding the change to a server, receiving information regarding a master copy of the shared electronic document, and determining based on the received information the change was accepted by the server and applied to the master copy of the shared electronic document. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372370 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIPLE DOCUMENT VERSION COLLABORATION AND MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods consistent with various disclosed embodiments provide for managing and collaborating information over a computer network. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed for managing documents over a network. The system may include a storage device and one or more processors. The processor(s) may receive a first version of a document from a client. The processor(s) may create, in a document log, an entry associated with the first version of the document. The processor(s) may receive a request from a remote computer that is displaying in an interface a second version of the document, and the request may include a request for information from one or more entries in the document log. The processor(s) may provide to the remote computer, for displaying in a display window in the interface, information from one or more entries in the document log. | 12-18-2014 |
20140379632 | SMARTER BIG DATA PROCESSING USING COLLABORATIVE MAP REDUCE FRAMEWORKS - Map reduce processing is performed holistically, to yield map reduce results data, on an aggregated group of data sets, which had been generated and maintained with “splits” separating the separate date sets, rather than being performed separately on the split data sets and then aggregating (or attempting to aggregate) the map reduce processing results. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379633 | Electronic Document Approval - This invention discloses a method, process, and system for displaying electronic documents that require approval from at least one party, and includes auditable tracing of approvals. The system can be centralized in a web-based or other electronic location, or be integrated as plugin, widgets, or other types of entities in other systems that provide APIs or other methods of integration. The invention presents approval by a person or group as an indication on the original document or as a separate indication. The recipients that are needed to approve the document are sent a notification that there is a document waiting for approval. Approvals are stored for auditing. | 12-25-2014 |
20150026118 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A document management system includes: a shared storage section that stores document information so as to share the document information among shared users; an access management section that permits access to the shared storage section by each shared user through authentication; a history acquiring section that acquires a record of an operation that is input for the document information by any shared user; an SNS server function section that generates a social timeline showing specific pieces of information in time sequence and generates, for each shared user, a history timeline that is a social timeline showing as the specific pieces of information the operation records acquired for the shared users; and a timeline display processing section that acquires, for each shared user, a history timeline reflecting the state after the authentication of the shared user to display the history timeline showing the operation records in time sequence. | 01-22-2015 |
20150032686 | APPLICATION SHARING FUNCTIONALITY IN AN INFORMATION NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - A user engaged in an online chat session with one or more other users can start a screen sharing session with the other users without having to leave the context of the online chat session. In an implementation, a chat window for the chat session includes a screen sharing button. The screen sharing button can be clicked to start a screen sharing session with the other chat participants. A system generated message is displayed within the chat windows of the other chat participants inviting them to view the remote screen. Upon accepting the invite, a viewer is launched to show the information being displayed on the remote screen. A variety of enhanced features and functions are also presented in the context of screen sharing in an information networking environment. | 01-29-2015 |
20150039556 | SCALABILITY IMPROVEMENT IN A SYSTEM WHICH INCREMENTALLY UPDATES CLIENTS WITH EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN A CLOUD-BASED COLLABORATION PLATFORM - Techniques are disclosed for improving scalability in a system which incrementally updates remote clients with events that occurred in a cloud-enabled platform. In one embodiment, a method comprises, in response to an action from a user in the cloud-enabled platform, determining a list of events to update one or more collaborators of the user about the action. The method further comprises separating the list of events into a plurality of sub-lists of events such that each sub-list of events can be stored in a database within a designated amount of time, and further comprises storing the plurality of sub-lists of events into the database to be read by the one or more collaborators. Among other advantages, embodiments disclosed herein provide enhancement in scalability, robustness and availability for cloud-based collaboration platforms with large numbers of collaborators by incorporating mechanisms to divide-and-conquer the workload of event updates in such platforms. | 02-05-2015 |
20150052100 | AUTOMATED DOCUMENT REVISION TRIMMING IN A COLLABORATIVE MULTI-USER DOCUMENT STORE - Methods, systems and techniques for managing revisions of documents in a collaborative, multiuser document store are provided. Example embodiments provide an Automated Document Revision Management Server (“ADRMS”) to automatically cluster and remove revisions of file content for easy navigation and management. Revisions are trimmed when necessary to conserve storage space. The ADRMS creates logical clusters of revisions based upon some measure of their similarities. That is, revisions that are similar and can be represented by the latest revision in the cluster formulate one cluster, and those that are markedly dissimilar are placed in a different cluster. The logic used to cluster revisions accounts for time-based factors, content-based factors, and context-based factors to determine whether a revision is incremental and can be grouped in the same cluster or is significant enough to warrant a new cluster. Revisions may be trimmed based upon age and/or available space by a revision trimming component. | 02-19-2015 |
20150058282 | ASSIGNING AND MANAGING REVIEWS OF A COMPUTING FILE - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and computer system for managing reviews of a computing file. The method includes a computer receiving a computing file, the computing file containing software program functions. The computing system receives a list of one or more reviewers to review the computing file. The computer parses the computing file by function. The computer receives an assignment of at least one of the one or more reviewers to at least one function within the computing file. The computer sends a request to review the computing file to the at least one of the one or more reviewers assigned. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058283 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PUBLISHING AND DISPLAYING DIGITAL MATERIALS - The present invention provides a system for publishing and displaying digital materials, comprising an ePub publishing module comprising a mechanism for publishers to upload ePub files, a user management module providing a means to add, edit and remove end users from the system, a bookshelf module for organizing the user's content in order to create a logical grouping of content, a reading content module for reading content after the user has been mapped to the content, and an annotating content module for annotating user selected text. | 02-26-2015 |
20150074042 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC INTERACTION WITH A RESEARCH PUBLICATION DATABASE - Systems, apparatus, and methods are provided for providing dynamic interaction with a research publication database. | 03-12-2015 |
20150081624 | CONFIGURABLE EVENT-BASED AUTOMATION ARCHITECTURE FOR CLOUD-BASED COLLABORATION PLATFORMS - Scalable architectures, systems, and services are provided herein for generating jobs by applying user-specified rules to events in an action log framework (ALF) stream is disclosed. More specifically, collaboration environments can include features or mechanisms that allow end-users or collaborators to perform a variety of actions such as, for example, file uploads and previews, or collaboration operations such as, for example, task assignment and comments. These actions can be captured or logged by an action log framework and, as described herein, automatically translated into one or more jobs by applying customizable user-specified rules. | 03-19-2015 |
20150120646 | Knowledge Object And Collaboration Management System - The inventive subject matter provides apparatus, systems and methods in which a point management system packages worker thought-processes and supporting reference materials with the point or conclusion being made, enabling rapid review and verification by a decision-maker. The point management system includes a literal object database, snip object database and point object database, wherein each snip object is derived from a literal object and linked to the location from which it was derived. The system further includes a point authoring module that enables users to link snip objects within the point object, and a snip verification engine that enables a reviewer of the point object to verify the supporting snip objects and literal objects, their relationships to each other and to the points being made in the point object, and the team collaboration that has transpired at both the snip object level and point object level. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127603 | Inline User Addressing in Chat and Document Editing Sessions - A computer-implemented method is executed on a server having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs to be executed by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving document editing commands, for editing a respective document, from one or more users in a document editing session, and editing the respective document in accordance with the commands received from the users. The received commands including document text for the document. The method further includes detecting, within the respective document text, an embedded request to invite a specified user to access the respective document, and responding by sending an invitation to the specified user, and, if needed, adding the specified user to an access control list of the respective document to enable the specified user to access the document in response to detecting the embedded request. | 05-07-2015 |
20150134600 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT AND COLLABORATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for document collaboration and management are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, a document may be incorporated in a document directory maintained by a document collaboration and management service. A portable representation underlay based on the document may be generated using one or more asynchronous workflows and the portable representation underlay may be provided in response to a user request. | 05-14-2015 |
20150149404 | COLLABORATIVE ONLINE DOCUMENT EDITING - A technique for facilitating online collaboration among users of client machines allows multiple users to work together and concurrently on a set of documents. In response to a request from a user, a server opens a document in a software application running on the server and virtualizes the software application to the client machines. Multiple users can then operate the software application from the respective client machines to edit the document via remote control. The server multiplexes pointer input from the client machines to provide pointer input to the software application from one user at a time. Multiplexing of pointer input takes place seamlessly and automatically in response to user activity with respect to the virtualized software application. | 05-28-2015 |
20150310006 | COLLABORATIVE DRUG DISCOVERY SYSTEM - Methods and systems for drug discovery collaboration provide collaborative drug discovery electronic workplaces simultaneously accessible by multiple user computing devices. In certain embodiments, a server computer running a server side application communicates with multiple user computing devices. The server side application communicates with electronic databases that define the parameters of each electronic workplace. Each workplace includes an indication of one or more items, such as compounds, and data pertaining to such items, such as computational and experimental data. Updates to a workplace made by one user may be saved to the workplace definition and propagated and displayed to other users. New items of interest may be added to a workplace. A new item added to a workplace may also be saved to the database and registered with the system for use by other users and in connection with other workplaces. | 10-29-2015 |
20150331885 | ROLE TRANSFER BETWEEN USERS OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM - A plurality of collaboration artifacts associated with a first user are identified in a computer system. One or more features are identified from each of the plurality of collaboration artifacts. At least some of the plurality of collaboration artifacts are clustered based on similarity of the one or more features, resulting in a plurality of clusters. The first user is prompted to make a selection from the plurality of clusters and the selection of the first user is received. The collaboration artifacts in the selection are transferred to a second user. | 11-19-2015 |
20150370825 | SCALABLE EVENTUAL CONSISTENCY SYSTEM USING LOGICAL DOCUMENT JOURNALING - A scalable eventual consistency system. The system uses logical document journaling to provide eventual consistency across partitions in a large-scale service. The system allows for transactional edits to massively interconnected graphs of documents documents through parallelization without sacrificing linear scalability. The system separates the authority for edits from the replicated storage allowing efficient transactions and linear scalability. All document writes are written to document-specific partitions in a journal where they are queued until the changes are propagated to view-based partitions of a store. By continually checking the journal and attempting to replicate any pending document writes to the store, the system provides eventual consistency without complicated synchronization mechanisms. The system models membership and containment relationships between documents in manner allowing document writes ultimately impacting more than one document to be efficiently handled through the journal as an edit to a single document. | 12-24-2015 |
20150378995 | MANAGING PUBLIC NOTES AND PRIVATE NOTES PERTAINING TO A DOCUMENT WHICH IS SHARED DURING AN ONLINE MEETING - A technique manages notes pertaining to a document during an online meeting. The technique involves, while displaying contents of the document to participants of the online meeting, accessing, by processing circuitry, public notes and private notes pertaining to the contents of the document, the public notes and the private notes having been provided by a particular participant. The technique further involves sharing, by the processing circuitry, the public notes with other participants of the online meeting. The technique further involves concealing, by the processing circuitry, the private notes from the other participants of the online meeting. | 12-31-2015 |
20160041973 | USING SOCIAL DATA TO ASSIST EDITORS IN ADDRESSING REVIEWER FEEDBACK IN A DOCUMENT REVIEW WORKFLOW - Presenting a reviewer feedback of a document, one aspect, may comprise retrieving a plurality of feedback on a document, each feedback having an associated reviewer who provided the feedback. Social data associated with the reviewer of the feedback may be obtained. A plurality of characteristics associated with the feedback may be identified, at least some of the characteristics identified based on the social data. The characteristics may include at least the associated reviewer's position in an organization hierarchy, the reviewer's expertise, frequency of the feedback, impact of the feedback, and usefulness of the feedback. The plurality of feedback may be prioritized based on the plurality of characteristics, and a list of prioritized feedback may be presented via a user interface. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048548 | POPULATION OF GRAPH NODES - Crawlers crawl disparate sources of information and build a graph that identifies relationships between entities. The graph can be manually updated by users. Where two or more users attempt to make competing updates to the same information in the graph, a prevailing update is identified based upon the user's proximity to the entity being changed. | 02-18-2016 |
20160070812 | Secure Document Sharing - Disclosed are various embodiments for sharing documents among users of an enterprise as well as with users external to an enterprise. A document is identified and document components extracted from the document. A browser representation is generated that, when rendered or interpreted by a browser, causes the browser to generate a user interface that presents at least a portion of the document as the document would be viewed by a native viewer. | 03-10-2016 |
20160092442 | REMOTE ACCESS CONTROL FOR STORED DATA - A method and apparatus for document collaboration and management are disclosed. User devices associated with a user of a document management and collaboration system are identified. Documents associated with the user are downloaded to the user devices from the document management and collaboration system. A targeted denial of access to the downloaded documents is performed. | 03-31-2016 |
20160171226 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONDITIONALLY SHARING AN OBJECT WITH ONE OR MORE ENTITIES | 06-16-2016 |
20160171230 | Method to Delay Locking of Server Files On Edit | 06-16-2016 |
20160188584 | SYSTEM FOR TRACKING AND DISPLAYING CHANGES IN A SET OF RELATED ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS. - This invention discloses a novel system and method for displaying a comparison of a group of related electronic documents in order that changes generated by a comparison of last versions of the group can be automatically displayed and manipulated on a single summary output screen. | 06-30-2016 |
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