Collaborative Document Database And Workflow Patents (Class 707/608)
  • Publication number: 20140317050
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent A. Belfoure, Gregory J. Boss, John E. Moore, Jr., Harald Veser
  • Patent number: 8868490
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: TeraRecon, Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Iwase, Motoaki Saito, Robert J. Taylor, Tiecheng Zhao, Vikram Simha
  • Patent number: 8868488
    Abstract: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for integrating structured accounting data with unstructured data. From an application that manages structured accounting data related to an entity, a user selection is received to create a document container for a collaboration tool. The document container is used for storing unstructured data related to the entity. In response to the selection of the create option, a site creation service is launched for automatically creating the document container using settings previously specified by an administrator on a configuration screen of the application. Once the document container is created, unstructured data related to the entity is stored in the document container. The user can view and navigate between the structured accounting data and unstructured data without having to leave the application. Unstructured data is automatically published to the document container for the entity as users interact with the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Adel Shrufi
  • Patent number: 8868489
    Abstract: A method and system for users to concurrently edit a digital file to achieve a predetermined goal. Each iteration creates a copy of the digital file for each user; enables the users to create an altered digital file by making a change having a magnitude within predetermined limits; creates a voting set containing a plurality of digital files, the plurality of digital files including at least one altered or unaltered digital file; enables the users to cast votes in relation to the digital files in the voting set; repeats the steps of creating a voting set and enables the users to cast votes until one of the digital files in one of the voting sets receives a number of votes above a predetermined voting threshold; and includes in the next iteration the digital file which received a number of votes above the predetermined voting threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Codigital Limited
    Inventor: Padraig Hood
  • Patent number: 8862641
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided that includes a processor and a memory storing executable instructions that in response to execution by the processor cause the apparatus to at least perform a number of functions. The apparatus is caused to direct presentation of a list for a plurality of patients and that is clustered by patient. The apparatus is caused to apply a keyword filter to identify a subset of the patient exams that match the keyword filter, and rank the respective exams by relevance to the keyword filter. The apparatus is caused to direct presentation of a filtered list of patient exams that is clustered by patient in the filtered list of patient exams. And for each patient having patient exams in the subset of the patient exams, the respective patient exams are in ranked order in the filtered list of patient exams according to the keyword filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: McKesson Financial Holdings
    Inventor: Radu Catalin Bocirnea
  • Patent number: 8856156
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating patient health care by providing discovery, validation, and quality assurance of nomenclatural linkages between pairs of terms or combinations of terms in databases extant on multiple different health information systems that do not share a set of unified codesets, nomenclatures, or ontologies, or that may in part rely upon unstructured free-text narrative content instead of codes or standardized tags. Embodiments discover semantic structures existing naturally in documents and records, including relationships of synonymy and polysemy between terms arising from disparate processes, and maintained by different information systems. In some embodiments, this process is facilitated by applying Latent Semantic Analysis in concert with decision-tree induction and similarity metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas S. McNair, John Christopher Murrish, Kanakasabha Kailasam
  • Patent number: 8856065
    Abstract: A document management system 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 being 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaki Yamamichi
  • Patent number: 8856066
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Aditya S. Kuruganti, Simon Z. Fell, Jayaprakash Pasala, Samatha Sanikommu, Kedar Doshi, Sanjaya Lai
  • Patent number: 8856335
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for dynamically managing service-level objectives (SLOs) for workloads of a cluster storage system. Proposed states/solutions of the cluster may be produced and evaluated to select one that achieves the SLOs for each workload. A planner engine may produce a state tree comprising nodes, each node representing a proposed state/solution. New nodes may be added to the state tree based on new solution types that are permitted, or nodes may be removed based on a received time constraint for executing a proposed solution or a client certification of a solution. The planner engine may call an evaluation engine to evaluate proposed states, the evaluation engine using an evaluation function that considers SLO, cost, and optimization goal characteristics to produce a single evaluation value for each proposed state. The planner engine may call a modeler engine that is trained using machine learning techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Netapp, Inc.
    Inventors: Neeraja Yadwadkar, Sai Rama Krishna Susarla, Kaladhar Voruganti, Rukma Ameet Talwadker, Vipul Mathur, Lakshmi Narayanan Bairavasundaram
  • Publication number: 20140297583
    Abstract: Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for determining statistics for cost-based optimization of a workflow. A method includes generating individual sets of statistics for each intermediate relation of a workflow, wherein said intermediate relations comprise results of stages of any plan of the workflow, and wherein each individual set of statistics computes cardinality of the corresponding intermediate relation; determining a global set of statistics for the workflow, wherein said global set of statistics comprises at least one of the individual sets of statistics for each of the intermediate relations; instrumenting a given plan of the workflow to collect the global set of statistics during execution; executing the given plan to collect the global set of statistics; and determining a plan of the workflow with the lowest cost by comparing the cost of multiple plans, wherein the cost of each plan is derived from the global set of statistics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ramanujam S. Halasipuram, Prasad M. Deshpande, Sriram Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: 8850606
    Abstract: A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for information processing, the process includes: receiving a first characteristic value calculated on the basis of first document information for use in detecting whether the first document information is tampered with or not; receiving a second characteristic value calculated on the basis of second document information for use in detecting whether the second document information is tampered with or not; and calculating a third characteristic value for use in detecting whether third document information is tampered with or not on the basis of the first characteristic value, the second characteristic value and the third document information related to integration of the first document information and the second document information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bin Zhou
  • Patent number: 8849748
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for tracking progress of media processing jobs. A system tracking progress of media processing jobs receives a media processing job submitted by a user via an electronic portal, inserts the media processing job as a job entry in a job submission table, sets an initial status for the job entry, processes the media according to parameters associated with the media processing job, maintains a processing history of the media processing job, and updates the initial status based on the processing. The system displays processing history of media processing jobs through an application interface and allows a user to expand and collapse the history to display additional or fewer details of the processing, respectively. The system can generate a virtual representation of a received physical copy of the media and associate the virtual representation with the electronically submitted media processing job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Post Pro Finance Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Maurice Filliettaz, III
  • Patent number: 8849859
    Abstract: A system providing three-dimensional visual navigation for a mobile unit includes a location calculation unit for calculating an instantaneous position of the mobile unit, a viewpoint control unit for determining a viewing frustum from the instantaneous position, a scenegraph manager in communication with at least one geo-database to obtain geographic object data associated with the viewing frustum and generating a scenegraph organizing the geographic object data, and a scenegraph renderer which graphically renders the scenegraph in real time. To enhance depiction, a method for blending images of different resolutions in the scenegraph reduces abrupt changes as the mobile unit moves relative to the depicted geographic objects. Data structures for storage and run-time access of information regarding the geographic object data permit on-demand loading of the data based on the viewing frustum and allow the navigational system to dynamically load, on-demand, only those objects that are visible to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hauke Schmidt, Tuolin Chen, Aaron Lee
  • Publication number: 20140289185
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: MARKLOGIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Lindblad, Wayne Feick, Haitao Wu
  • Patent number: 8843524
    Abstract: Computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for processing data in an out-of-order manner in a streams computing environment. A windowing condition is defined such that incoming data tuples are processed within a specified time or count of each other. Additionally, the windowing condition may be based on a specified attribute of the data tuples. If the tuples are not processed within the constraints specified by the windowing condition, the unprocessed tuples may be discarded, i.e., not processed, to optimize operator performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Branson, Ryan K. Cradick, John M. Santosuosso, Brandon W. Schulz
  • Patent number: 8843436
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a computer-implemented method comprising receiving a query and generating first and second requests. The first request is sent to an analytic data store and includes a data transfer indicator representing a time period when the data record was received in the analytic data store. The second request is sent to a transactional model proxy and includes a monotonically changing value, such as a timestamp. The transactional model proxy reads data from a transactional data store based on the value in the request. Data from the analytic and transactional data stores may be aggregated and returned in response to the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Franz Marschall, Stefan Unnebrink
  • Patent number: 8843531
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for bookkeeping of download stamps are described herein. An embodiment includes augmenting database table (or mobile business object) metadata with a synchronization (“sync”) key and assigning a unique identifier to each sync key. A sync key is assigned to one or more rows (or records) in the database table and a download timestamp is associated with each sync key. The embodiment further includes identifying a sync key associated with each row in the database table. Links between rows occurring in different database tables are maintained using sync keys. In this way, embodiments of the invention allow a server to record a download timestamp of database table subsets, where such subsets may include one or more rows in the database tables. This allows data to be downloaded by a client at subset granularity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Sybase, Inc.
    Inventors: Hemal Pandya, Jitendra Kumar Singh, Christopher Redvers Jobson
  • Publication number: 20140279846
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: CoralTree Inc.
    Inventors: Tiruvali S. Srinivasan, Keshav Srinivasan, Mukesh Sharma, Rajneesh Maurya
  • Publication number: 20140279844
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dharma Shukla, Karthik Raman
  • Publication number: 20140279842
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Alex Zhai, Rian Hunter
  • Publication number: 20140282826
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program mediates a co-editing session for a document. After establishing a co-editing session for a first user and a second user to co-edit a document, a first modification of the document is received from the first user. A second modification of the document, which eliminates the first modification, is subsequently received from the second user. In response to a quantity of subsequent modifications, after the first and second modifications, exceeding a predetermined value, an action is initiated to prevent further modifications to the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20140279845
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Venkatesh Ganti, Aaron Kalb, Feng Niu, Satyen Sangani
  • Publication number: 20140279843
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: WORKSHARE, LTD.
    Inventor: Daniel Von Weihe
  • Patent number: 8839457
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for controlling access to digital media involves receiving a URL at a computer server system, decoding the URL, extracting a user ID of a user who submitted the URL and an image ID of an image that is accessible by the server system, using the user ID to determine whether the user who submitted the URL is authorized to access the image, and controlling access to the image by the user based on the determination of whether the user who submitted the URL is authorized to access the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Harris, Jonathan B. Emerson, Jonathan A. Wray, Nicholas M. V. Cooper, Christopher J. Nokleberg
  • Publication number: 20140258214
    Abstract: An information processing system has a conference apparatus, a document management apparatus, and a plurality of terminal apparatuses interconnected via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yuka TSUKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140258213
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Judith H. Bank, Liam Harpur, Ruthie D. Lyle, Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Lin Sun
  • Publication number: 20140250058
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eniyan Thiruvidan, Anjaneyulu Kuchibhotla, Dilip Mysore Devaraj
  • Patent number: 8825607
    Abstract: A Dynamic Live System for collecting, inputting, storing, and reporting Element Effort Event Data, whose processes upon query enable the reporting of well formatted Formulaic Conjoined Project Effort Instance (CPEI) Reports per the Systems Who did What in Phasetime Effort Instance Formulas in Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Auto Displays, and Inferences, not stored as displayed in Systems base tables. The formulas 5th Element permits effort instances to be reported as past, present and future CPEI displays, regardless if said effort event data was inputted by an element directly or generated automatically by the system's use of AI type techniques. Dynamically generated well formatted CPEI report displays incorporate functional interaction designed attributes that hyperlink formula primitives by their CPEI associations, whether or not said associations are acknowledged as credited efforts by a project owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Inventor: Neal King Rieffanaugh, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8825594
    Abstract: Example systems and methods are directed at maintaining and retrieving presence metadata. One example method includes receiving a request from a first client to edit a document file, and sending short-term check out metadata to the first client to begin an editing session. The method also includes writing the transition ID to a transition table stored in a cache, wherein the presence of another transition ID in the cache indicates that a document has switched from a single-client mode to a multi-client mode. An example system includes a processing unit operative to receive a document, the document including short-term check out metadata indicating an editing session has begun, ping a cache to determine if another transition ID is stored in the cache, and send a transition ID to a transition table stored in a cache to switch from a single-client mode to a multi-client mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Skaria, Naresh Kannan, Simon Peter Clarke, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose, Christopher J. Antos, Mark Rolland Knight, Andrew G. Carlson, Don Adam Hedgpeth, Mitesh Pankaj Patel, Andrew Sean Watson, Jonathan B. Bailor, Elena Petrova
  • Publication number: 20140244574
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 8819626
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides relative bookmarks that are sharable between developers engaged in product development utilizing integrated design environment applications. The relative bookmarks are sharable in that they can be exported, imported, activated and deactivated. The relative bookmarks are relative in that they do not rely on the original code line and contain at least function and/or data flow information, facilitating quick identification of relevant lines of code that have been previously bookmarked. The relative bookmarks can also be utilized to insert breakpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rajaraman Hariharan, Ramakrishnan Kannan, Sandeep Kohli, Priyadarshini Sampath, Karthik Subbian
  • Patent number: 8819625
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides relative bookmarks that are sharable between developers engaged in product development utilizing integrated design environment applications. The relative bookmarks are sharable in that they can be exported, imported, activated and deactivated. The relative bookmarks are relative in that they do not rely on the original code line and contain at least function and/or data flow information, facilitating quick identification of relevant lines of code that have been previously bookmarked. The relative bookmarks can also be utilized to insert breakpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rajaraman Hariharan, Ramakrishnan Kannan, Sandeep Kohli, Priyadarshini Sampath, Karthik Subbian
  • Publication number: 20140236885
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Muller, Andrew L. Schirmer
  • Publication number: 20140229426
    Abstract: A system and method for efficient management and viewing of electronic data and documents, such as electronic blueprint sheets. The system and method may include processing the electronic blueprint sheets by a computing device. The system and method may include querying by the computing device and processing modules to determine their availability. Each processing module may cause further processing of each page. The system and method may include distributing of the blueprint file to available processing modules based on the availability of the processing modules for processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Loupe, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph L. Gootee, III, Cory R. Lorenz, Kenny W. Stone
  • Patent number: 8805774
    Abstract: A method for role based situation aware software includes: mapping one or more users to one or more communities of practice (CoP); aggregating a series of tags from the one or more CoP to form an initial set of role-based tags; filtering the initial set of role-based tags based on user context elements to form context sensitive user-role tags; querying one or more information services based on the context sensitive user-role tags; aggregating information obtained from querying the one or more information services; and providing the aggregated information to the user as dynamic context related content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John E. Boyer, Edward E. Kelley, Eoin Lane
  • Patent number: 8805930
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for managing application programming interfaces in a collaboration space. A collaboration space, such as a wiki site, can host a set of collaboration tools and resources, including, for example, content tools, communication tools, and other resources for the users of the space. The collaboration space can also incorporate and expose a set of application programming interfaces, such as command and data-passing structures to permit users to invoke applications and/or services from within the wiki site or other collaboration space. The set of applications/services be hosted on a remote server or co-hosted on the collaboration server, and can include, for instance, database, spreadsheet, media content, or other applications or services. The invoked applications/services can return data to the requesting user via the collaboration space. Users can subscribe to different applications and/or services available via the collaboration space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: James Michael Ferris, David P. Huff
  • Patent number: 8799288
    Abstract: A generic and expandable document aspect system and method for searching, browsing, presenting, and interacting with data assembled from document contents and related external data is provided. New varieties of document aspects are added to existing installations and can be accessed by users without requiring upgrades to server or clients, for example by using plug-in technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Ebrary
    Inventors: Richard Holzgrafe, Tom Santos, Christopher Warnock
  • Patent number: 8799210
    Abstract: A framework for supporting transition of one or more applications of an organization is provided. The one or more applications are transitioned from a first set of users to a second set of users. The framework includes a transition module, a knowledge capture module, a knowledge validation module, and a collaboration module. The transition module generates one or more transition plans based on information corresponding to the one or more applications. The knowledge capture module captures a plurality of knowledge elements corresponding to the one or more applications. The knowledge capture module further establishes association between the plurality of knowledge elements. The knowledge validation module validates the plurality of knowledge elements and their association. The collaboration module provides collaboration between the first set of users and the second set of users during the transition of the one or more applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Infosys Limited
    Inventors: Virendra Paliwal, Savio D'Souza, Dinesh Kumara Shetty, Venkatakrishnan Balasubramanian, Lakshmi Narasimhan Narayanan
  • Publication number: 20140214758
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: RITESH TRIPATHI, RAHUL BISHNOI, NITIRAJ SINGH RATHORE
  • Publication number: 20140214759
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Cardlink Services Limited
    Inventors: Richard Mark Williams, Keith Robert Goding Brown
  • Publication number: 20140214757
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Jae Chul KIM, Seong Ho LEE, Yoon-Seop CHANG, Sung Woong SHIN
  • Publication number: 20140214756
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventor: Kurt N. Nordback
  • Patent number: 8793225
    Abstract: A search request received at a computer of a search support system is processed by analyzing the received search request to identify request parameters and connecting to a system index of the search support system that is referenced in the request parameters. An external result provider (ERP) process is initiated that establishes communication between the search support system and a data source external to the search support system, for a virtual index referenced in the request parameters. Thus, the ERP process provides an interface between the search support system and external data sources, such as by third parties. The ERP process can operate in a streaming mode (providing real-time search results with minimal processing) and/or a reporting mode (providing results with a greater delay and processing extent) and can switch between modes. The search request results are received from the connected system indexes and the referenced virtual indexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Ledion Bitincka, Steve Zhang, Igor Stojanovski, Stephen Sorkin
  • Publication number: 20140207730
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: OPEN TEXT S.A.
    Inventors: Jared M. SPATARO, Cornelia A. WEST, David GLAZER, Ronald E. SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20140201131
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Gemma Burman, Anjaneyulu Seetha Rama Kuchibhotla, Siddharth Kalita, Ninoj Antony, Eniyan Thiruvidam, Geeta Pai
  • Patent number: 8781998
    Abstract: 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 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Syed Shomaail Monsoor Jafri, Yasser Shabaan, Sahel Nashat Abduljauwad
  • Patent number: 8782046
    Abstract: A method and system for predicting future trends of terms taxonomies of users generated content. The method comprises crawling one or more sources of users generated content to collect phrases mentioned by users of the one or more data sources; periodically analyzing one or more term taxonomies to determine at least a trend of at least a non-sentiment phrase with respect of a plurality of sentiment phrases, wherein a term taxonomy is an association between a non-sentiment phrase and a sentiment phrase, the non-sentiment and sentiment phrases are included in the collected phrases; and generating a prediction of future behavior of the at least trend with respect of the one or more term taxonomies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Taykey Ltd.
    Inventors: Amit Avner, Omer Dror
  • Patent number: 8782088
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for generating a report that includes latent information, comprising receiving an input data stream that includes latent information, performing one of normalization, validation, and extraction of the input data stream, processing the input data stream to identify latent information within the data stream that is required for generation of a particular report, wherein said processing of the input data stream to identify latent information comprises of identifying a relevant portion of the input data stream, bounding the relevant portion of the input data stream, classifying and normalizing the bounded data, activating a relevant report template based on said identified latent information, populating said template with template-specified data, and processing the template-specified data to generate a report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Alwin B. Carus, Harry J. Ogrinc
  • Patent number: 8775367
    Abstract: Techniques for enterprise data as office content are described. An apparatus may comprise a client device having an application program, an insertion component and an update component. The insertion component may be arranged to insert source data elements from a data source into a document for the application program. The update component may be arranged to update the inserted data elements as the source data elements are modified. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Todd J. Abel, Satish R. Thatte, Richard Roma iDalfo, Mark C. McLoughlin, Greg Prickril, Alex Burst
  • Patent number: 8775366
    Abstract: Optimization of analytical effectiveness of a plurality of analysts is achieved, in part, this through the routing of information elements (i.e., discrete quantities of content suitable for analysis by one or more analysts) to selected analysts in order to maximize achievement of analysis goals defined as part of an analysis plan. Within an analyst network, information elements are obtained by a routing controller from an information network. Based on the analysis goals provided to the routing controller, the routing controller selects specific analysts to receive the information elements. Various characteristics of individual or groups of analysts may be used to identify the selected analysts. In this manner, the present invention provides the ability to tailor the available analyst resources to best address the universe of available topics in the most efficient and productive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: Andrew E. Fano