Patents Assigned to VirtualAgility, Inc
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Patent number: 9367571Abstract: Techniques used in a system for collaborative work which gives collaborators unskilled in data processing technologies access to a variety of information resources to provide the collaborators with information resources which are obtained in response to parameterized information requests such as queries. The techniques use records in database tables to represent a class of parameterized information requests. Information for instances of the class includes queries that may be used in the instances and default values for bind parameters in the queries. Values for the bind parameters may also be specified for classes of user interfaces that employ the information sources returned by the parameterized information requests and for instances of the user interface. A user may also use specify values for bind parameters in his or her instance of the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: VirtualAgility Inc.Inventors: Kevin Kelley, Gideon Moran, Hung Phan, Nhat Phan, Stuart Rudolph
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Patent number: 9311625Abstract: A system for supporting collaborative activity in a network includes a storage component storing data related to the network and a model of the network; a processor that accesses the stored data and the model to process the data according to the model, where the stored data relates to the collaborative activity including user-defined data created by interaction of a user and the model, and context data related to the user, where the user-defined data and the context data, as metadata, are stored in the storage component; and a user interface, provided by the processor, that presents the user-defined data, the context data, and the model in a form readable by the user, the interface permitting the user to define a set of arbitrary domains, relate the user-defined data to the domains, and view relationships between the user-defined data and the context data, and the domains.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2013Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: VirtualAgility Inc.Inventors: Douglas F. Beaven, Janet Ahlgren, Kevin Kelley, Gorham Palmer, Stuart E. Rudolph
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Patent number: 9202202Abstract: A system facilitates collaborative communications and information sharing in a network defined by a model. The model and a portion of the system are stored on a storage component coupled to a terminal. The system captures context information and user-defined data, the user-defined data provided during user interaction of the user in a first domain of the network, and dynamically stores the context information as metadata associated with the user-defined data, the user-defined data and the metadata stored on the storage component; a tracking component for tracking a change of the user from the first domain to a second domain of the network and dynamically updating the stored metadata based on the change, where the user accesses the user-defined data from the second domain; and an interface to the system that permits the user to create and view the user-defined data according to the model of the network.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: VirtualAgility Inc.Inventor: Janet Wood Beaven
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Patent number: 8977689Abstract: A system facilitates collaborative communications and information sharing in a network defined by a model. The model and a portion of the system are stored on a storage component coupled to a terminal. The system captures context information and user-defined data, the user-defined data provided during user interaction of the user in a first domain of the network, and dynamically stores the context information as metadata associated with the user-defined data, the user-defined data and the metadata stored on the storage component; a tracking component for tracking a change of the user from the first domain to a second domain of the network and dynamically updating the stored metadata based on the change, where the user accesses the user-defined data from the second domain; and an interface to the system that permits the user to create and view the user-defined data according to the model of the network.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: VirtualAgility Inc.Inventor: Douglas F. Beaven
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Patent number: 8966445Abstract: A system includes a processor which has access to a representation of model of activity, which includes workspaces. Each workspace includes domain hierarchies for representing an organizational structure of the collaborating users using the system, and initiatives hierarchies representing process structures for accomplishing goals. An interface permits users to view and modify the workspaces for which the user has access. Each user can have different access permissions in different workspaces. The domain and initiative hierarchies provide two views of the workspace objects without duplicating resources. A resource is a collection of shared elements defined by the users that give users associated with the workspace access to information sources. Users can define knowledge boards for creating reports based on information fields of the resources. The knowledge board is associated with a resource template from which the resource is created.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: VirtualAgility Inc.Inventors: Janet Ahlgren, Andy Chang, Kevin Kelley, Gideon Moran, Gorham Palmer, Hung Phan, Nhat Phan, Stuart Rudolph, Robert Torchon
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Patent number: 8850385Abstract: A system includes a processor which has access to a representation of model of activity, which includes workspaces. Each workspace includes domain hierarchies for representing an organizational structure of the collaborating users using the system, and initiatives hierarchies representing process structures for accomplishing goals. An interface permits users to view and modify the workspaces for which the user has access. Each user can have different access permissions in different workspaces. The domain and initiative hierarchies provide two views of the workspace objects without duplicating resources. A resource is a collection of shared elements defined by the users that give users associated with the workspace access to information sources. Users can define knowledge boards for creating reports based on information fields of the resources. The knowledge board is associated with a resource template from which the resource is created.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2011Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Virtualagility Inc.Inventors: Janet Ahlgren, Andy Chang, Kevin Kelley, Gideon Moran, Gorham Palmer, Hung Phan, Nhat Phan, Stuart Rudolph, Robert Torchon
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Patent number: 8805879Abstract: Techniques used in a system for collaborative work which gives collaborators unskilled in data processing technologies access to a variety of information resources to provide the collaborators with information resources which are obtained in response to parameterized information requests such as queries. The techniques use records in database tables to represent a class of parameterized information requests. Information for instances of the class includes queries that may be used in the instances and default values for bind parameters in the queries. Values for the bind parameters may also be specified for classes of user interfaces that employ the information sources returned by the parameterized information requests and for instances of the user interface. A user may also use specify values for bind parameters in his or her instance of the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2009Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: VirtualAgility Inc.Inventors: Kevin Kelley, Gideon Moran, Hung Phan, Nhat Phan, Stuart Rudolph
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Publication number: 20140026072Abstract: A system for supporting collaborative activity in a network includes a storage component storing data related to the network and a model of the network; a processor that accesses the stored data and the model to process the data according to the model, where the stored data relates to the collaborative activity including user-defined data created by interaction of a user and the model, and context data related to the user, where the user-defined data and the context data, as metadata, are stored in the storage component; and a user interface, provided by the processor, that presents the user-defined data, the context data, and the model in a form readable by the user, the interface permitting the user to define a set of arbitrary domains, relate the user-defined data to the domains, and view relationships between the user-defined data and the context data, and the domains.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: VirtualAgility Inc.Inventors: Douglas F. Beaven, Janet Ahlgren, Kevin Kelley, Gorham Palmer, Stuart E. Rudolph
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Patent number: 8458258Abstract: A system for supporting collaborative activity in a network includes a storage component storing data related to the network and a model of the network; a processor that accesses the stored data and the model to process the data according to the model, where the stored data relates to the collaborative activity including user-defined data created by interaction of a user and the model, and context data related to the user, where the user-defined data and the context data, as metadata, are stored in the storage component; and a user interface, provided by the processor, that presents the user-defined data, the context data, and the model in a form readable by the user, the interface permitting the user to define a set of arbitrary domains, relate the user-defined data to the domains, and view relationships between the user-defined data and the context data, and the domains.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: VirtualAgility Inc.Inventors: Douglas Beaven, Janet Ahlgren, Kevin Kelley, Gorham Palmer, Stuart E. Rudolph, Jan Beaven
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Publication number: 20120311451Abstract: A system facilitates collaborative communications and information sharing in a network defined by a model. The model and a portion of the system are stored on a storage component coupled to a terminal. The system captures context information and user-defined data, the user-defined data provided during user interaction of the user in a first domain of the network, and dynamically stores the context information as metadata associated with the user-defined data, the user-defined data and the metadata stored on the storage component; a tracking component for tracking a change of the user from the first domain to a second domain of the network and dynamically updating the stored metadata based on the change, where the user accesses the user-defined data from the second domain; and an interface to the system that permits the user to create and view the user-defined data according to the model of the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2011Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: VirtualAgility Inc.Inventor: Douglas F. Beaven
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Publication number: 20120311044Abstract: A system for supporting collaborative activity in a network includes a storage component storing data related to the network and a model of the network; a processor that accesses the stored data and the model to process the data according to the model, where the stored data relates to the collaborative activity including user-defined data created by interaction of a user and the model, and context data related to the user, where the user-defined data and the context data, as metadata, are stored in the storage component; and a user interface, provided by the processor, that presents the user-defined data, the context data, and the model in a form readable by the user, the interface permitting the user to define a set of arbitrary domains, relate the user-defined data to the domains, and view relationships between the user-defined data and the context data, and the domains.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: VirtualAgility Inc.Inventors: Douglas F. Beaven, Janet Ahlgren, Kevin Kelley, Gorham Palmer, Stuart E. Rudolph
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Patent number: 8275836Abstract: A system for supporting collaborative activity in a network includes a storage component storing data related to the network and a model of the network; a processor that accesses the stored data and the model to process the data according to the model, where the stored data relates to the collaborative activity including user-defined data created by interaction of a user and the model, and context data related to the user, where the user-defined data and the context data, as metadata, are stored in the storage component; and a user interface, provided by the processor, that presents the user-defined data, the context data, and the model in a form readable by the user, the interface permitting the user to define a set of arbitrary domains, relate the user-defined data to the domains, and view relationships between the user-defined data and the context data, and the domains.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: VirtualAgility Inc.Inventors: Douglas Beaven, Jan Beaven, legal representative, Janet Ahlgren, Kevin Kelley, Gorham Palmer, Stuart E. Rudolph
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Publication number: 20120131104Abstract: A system for supporting collaborative activity in a network includes a storage component storing data related to the network and a model of the network; a processor that accesses the stored data and the model to process the data according to the model, where the stored data relates to the collaborative activity including user-defined data created by interaction of a user and the model, and context data related to the user, where the user-defined data and the context data, as metadata, are stored in the storage component; and a user interface, provided by the processor, that presents the user-defined data, the context data, and the model in a form readable by the user, the interface permitting the user to define a set of arbitrary domains, relate the user-defined data to the domains, and view relationships between the user-defined data and the context data, and the domains.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2011Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: VirtualAgility Inc.Inventors: Douglas F. Beaven, Jan Beaven, Janet Ahlgren, Kevin Kelley, Gurham Palmer, Stuart E. Rudolph
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Patent number: 8095594Abstract: A system for performing collaborative tasks which permits collaborators to determine the form of a model of the collaborative work, to modify the model in the course of the collaborative work, and to use the model to access information related to the collaborative work. A graphical user interface permits collaborators to view the model and the information accessible via the model in various ways as well as to modify the model and the information. The information related to the collaborative work includes documents, discussions, email, reminders, and alerts. In a disclosed embodiment of the system, the model is made up of model entities which belong to hierarchies. A model entity may be a member of more than one hierarchy and the different hierarchies are used to provide different views of the model.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Virtualagility, Inc.Inventors: Douglas F. Beaven, Janet Ahlgren, Kevin Kelley, Gorham Palmer, Stuart E. Rudolph
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Patent number: 8095413Abstract: Management information is processed. A first set of computer data is acquired that represents a model of an organization of people having fundamental components, such as processes or capabilities, that are represented in the first set of computer data by data items. The first set of computer data is associated with a second set of computer data that represents a portfolio of management concepts, such as management goals. A report of management concepts is issued based on the second set of computer data and is sorted by fundamental component.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1999Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Virtualagility, Inc.Inventor: Douglas F. Beaven
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Publication number: 20110276914Abstract: A system includes a processor which has access to a representation of model of activity, which includes workspaces. Each workspace includes domain hierarchies for representing an organizational structure of the collaborating users using the system, and initiatives hierarchies representing process structures for accomplishing goals. An interface permits users to view and modify the workspaces for which the user has access. Each user can have different access permissions in different workspaces. The domain and initiative hierarchies provide two views of the workspace objects without duplicating resources. A resource is a collection of shared elements defined by the users that give users associated with the workspace access to information sources. Users can define knowledge boards for creating reports based on information fields of the resources. The knowledge board is associated with a resource template from which the resource is created.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: VirtualAgility, Inc.Inventors: Janet Ahlgren, Andy Chang, Kevin Kelley, Gideon Moran, Gorham Palmer, Hung Phan, Nhat Phan, Stuart Rudolph, Robert Torchon
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Patent number: 7698160Abstract: A system for performing collaborative tasks which permits collaborators to determine the form of a model of the collaborative work, to modify the model in the course of the collaborative work, and to use the model to access information related to the collaborative work. A graphical user interface permits collaborators to view the model and the information accessible via the model in various ways as well as to modify the model and the information. Collaborators belong to groups and group membership determines access to the model and the related information. The information related to the collaborative work includes documents, discussions, email, reminders, and alerts. In a disclosed embodiment of the system, the model is made up of model entities which belong to hierarchies. A model entity may be a member of more than one hierarchy and the different hierarchies are used to provide different views of the model.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2004Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: VirtualAgility, IncInventors: Douglas F. Beaven, Janet Ahlgren, Kevin Kelley, Gorham Palmer, Stuart E. Rudolph