Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080235607 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING AN INTEREST PRIORITY OF AN OBJECT TO A USER BASED ON PERSONAL HISTORIES OR SOCIAL CONTEXT - A method and apparatus assigns a quantative variable to each object (or set of objects) in a collection available to a user. The quantative variable is referred to as the Interest Priority Value (IPV). The IPV defines a range of states of the object, between ‘accessed’ and ‘unaccessed’, and is calculated based on one or more attributes of the object. A object with the highest IPV is the most ‘unaccessed,’ and the object with the lowest IPV is the least ‘unaccessed.’ The IPV may be used in a visual representation of the collection of objects, thereby permitting a user to readily identify and obtain those objects of greatest interest to the particular user. | 09-25-2008 |
20080282198 | METHOD AND SYTEM FOR PROVIDING COLLABORATIVE TAG SETS TO ASSIST IN THE USE AND NAVIGATION OF A FOLKSONOMY - A system for providing collaborative tag sets to assist in the navigation and use of a folksonomy. The collaborative tag sets are social in nature. As more users group two tags together into tag sets, the disclosed system causes the association between those two tags to grow stronger, as exposed in the bookmark system user interface when alternative tags are suggested for browsing the bookmarks in a folksonomy. Tags that are grouped together by a user into a tag set have the strongest possible weight for that user, and accordingly the disclosed system automatically applies all tags in a set when that user is retrieving bookmarks if the user selects at least one of tags in the set. Tags not in the user's tag sets, but included in the public tag set(s) of another user(s) are displayed in the user interface as tag suggestions. | 11-13-2008 |
20080288468 | System for Automatic Data Retrieval Based on Context-traversal History - A data retrieval system provides automatic retrieval of information based on a context-traversal history. A transferable object is identified in a first context while the user is operating in the first context. Information used to retrieve the transferable object is automatically stored without user interaction. The automatically stored information is used to copy the transferable object to an object receptor in a second context while the user operates in the second context. A marker stored in the memory signifies an end of a first historical period associated with the first context and a start of a second historical period associated with the second context, associates the transferable object identified in the first context with the first historical period, and separates the information automatically stored in the memory in the first historical period from information automatically stored in the memory in the second historical period. | 11-20-2008 |
20080313138 | APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING AN INTEREST PRIORITY OF AN OBJECT TO A USER BASED ON PERSONAL HISTORIES OR SOCIAL CONTEXT - A method and apparatus assigns a quantative variable to each object (or set of objects) in a collection available to a user. The quantative variable is referred to as the Interest Priority Value (IPV). The IPV defines a range of states of the object, between ‘accessed’ and ‘unaccessed’, and is calculated based on one or more attributes of the object. A object with the highest IPV is the most ‘unaccessed,’ and the object with the lowest IPV is the least ‘unaccessed.’ The IPV may be used in a visual representation of the collection of objects, thereby permitting a user to readily identify and obtain those objects of greatest interest to the particular user. | 12-18-2008 |
20080313139 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING AN INTEREST PRIORITY OF AN OBJECT TO A USER BASED ON PERSONAL HISTORIES OR SOCIAL CONTEXT - A method and apparatus assigns a quantative variable to each object (or set of objects) in a collection available to a user. The quantative variable is referred to as the Interest Priority Value (IPV). The IPV defines a range of states of the object, between ‘accessed’ and ‘unaccessed’, and is calculated based on one or more attributes of the object. A object with the highest IPV is the most ‘unaccessed,’ and the object with the lowest IPV is the least ‘unaccessed.’ The IPV may be used in a visual representation of the collection of objects, thereby permitting a user to readily identify and obtain those objects of greatest interest to the particular user. | 12-18-2008 |
20090049137 | REFERENCING RELATIVE ROLE SUFFIXES IN A COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to referencing organizational roles in a collaborative computing environment and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for referencing relative role suffixes in a collaborative computing environment. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for referencing relative role suffixes in a collaborative computing environment can include receiving as input to a collaborative tool in the collaborative computing environment, a relative reference to a member of the collaborative computing environment and decomposing the relative reference into a prefix and a suffix. The method further can include determining a member specified by the prefix and a role specified by the suffix and transforming the role to a member of the collaborative computing environment relative to the member specified by the prefix. Finally, the method can include returning the transformed member to the collaborative tool. | 02-19-2009 |
20090106370 | Processing Electronic Messages According to Sender Classification - A computer-implemented method of sorting electronic messages can include identifying at least one recipient of an electronic message and retrieving a classification scheme of the recipient. An identifier can be included within the electronic message. The identifier can specify a tag selected from the classification scheme of the recipient. The electronic message, including the identifier specifying the selected tag, can be sent. | 04-23-2009 |
20090106680 | DRAG AND DROP OBJECT ATTRIBUTE ASSIGNMENT FOR OBJECTS IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to object attribution modification and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for drag and drop attributes for objects in a graphical user interface. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for drag and drop object attributes in a GUI can be provided. The method can include presenting draggable object attributes in the GUI, dragging one of the draggable object attributes into a separate target object in the GUI, and applying a value for the draggable object attribute to the separate target object. In one aspect of the embodiment, each of the draggable object attributes in the GUI can be separate and independent from any particular object in the GUI. In another aspect of the embodiment, each of the draggable object attributes in the GUI can be draggable from the particular object to a target object in the GUI. | 04-23-2009 |
20090119293 | Computer Method and System for Determining Individual Priorities of Shared Activities - A computer-implemented method and apparatus determines individual user priorities of collections of resources. The invention system represents collections of shared resources as end-user activities. An engine retrieves the activity access history of the user and the activity records and generates a description of each activity and a priority score. The engine may include a data collection component and a training and ranking component. Based on the activity descriptions and priority scores, the invention system generates and outputs for display an activity list ordered by individual user priority. | 05-07-2009 |
20090144625 | SEQUENCE DETECTION AND AUTOMATION FOR COMPLEX PORTAL ENVIRONMENTS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to user interface interaction automation and provide a method, system and computer program product for user interface interaction sequence detection and recording for user interface interaction automation. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for user interface interaction sequence detection and recording for user interface interaction automation can be provided. The method can include comparing a contemporary sequence of user interface actions in a user interface to a pre-stored sequence, and prompting for an expected user interface action if the contemporary sequence matches the pre-stored sequence. The method also can include prompting to store the contemporary sequence as a pre-stored sequence, and storing the contemporary sequence as a pre-stored sequence if directed in response to the prompting. | 06-04-2009 |
20090150342 | Computer Method and Apparatus for Tag Pre-Search in Social Software - A computer-implemented method and system for tag-based searching. One or more initial tags are entered or otherwise input by a user. The invention system determines related tags to the user entered initial tags and enables user review of the determined related tags. The user selects from the determined related tags and forms an improved tag-based search relative to the initial tags. Methods employed for determining related tags include conventional frequency of co-occurence method, a lexical method, a semantic method, a user list method, a recency method, a reference database method and a resource method. The invention method/system also allows the user to store selected components of those searches for future use/reuse. The invention also allows the user to share selected components with selected other users. | 06-11-2009 |
20090171714 | LIVE INTENTION MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to service dispatch and provide a method, system and computer program product for live intention management in a computer communications network. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for live intention management can be provided. The method can include selecting a serviceable object in a service area, changing live intention metadata data for the selected serviceable object to reflect an awareness state of the serviceable object indicating that an actor intends to service but has not yet serviced the serviceable object, and displaying the serviceable object and the awareness state in a map in a graphical user interface. | 07-02-2009 |
20090171987 | 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. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172026 | PERSONALIZED INFORMATION FILTER BASED ON SOCIAL TAGS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to content personalization and provide a method, system and computer program product for tag-based content personalization. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for tag based personalization of content can be provided. The method can include comparing tags for a user in a social bookmarking system to keywords for content received for the user. The method further can include filtering the content when the keywords do not compare favorably with the tags. In this way, the content preference of a user can be inferred irrespective of the environment in which the content is provided as the keywords of the content can be compared with tags associated with the interests of the recipient of the content. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172096 | DETECTING EXCEPTIONS FOR COLLABORATIVE OBJECT ADDRESSING - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to distribution list management for a collaborative object and provide a method, system and computer program product for detecting exceptions for collaborative object addressing in a collaborative computing environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for detecting exceptions for collaborative object addressing in a collaborative computing environment can be provided. The method can include retrieving a distribution list for a collaborative object in a collaborative computing environment, comparing addressees in the distribution list to addressees in a list of previously applied addressees, and providing a notification where an addressee in the distribution list does not appear as an addressee in the list of previously applied addresses. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172573 | ACTIVITY CENTRIC RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to context sensitive resource recommendations and provide a method, system and computer program product for activity sensitive context sensitive resource recommendations. In an embodiment of the invention, an activity-centric resource recommendation method can be provided. The method can include inferring an activity from a workspace in a graphical user interface, identifying resources from amongst a set of resources that are relevant to the inferred activity, and displaying the identified resources in the graphical user interface. | 07-02-2009 |
20090186330 | REUSABLE AD HOC SELF-POSED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR SOCIAL NETWORK PROFILES - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to profile generation for social networking systems and provide a method, system and computer program product for reusable ad hoc self-posed questions and answers for social network profiles. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for managing reusable ad hoc self-posed questions and answers for social network profiles can be provided. The method can include receiving a free form specification of a question and a corresponding answer by a particular user in a social network, posting the received question and corresponding answer onto a user profile for the particular user, selecting the received question for the particular user on behalf of a different user in the social network and prompting the different user to provide a different answer to the selected question, and posting the selected question and the different answer onto a user profile for the different user. | 07-23-2009 |
20090187554 | SPECIFYING WEIGHTED SEARCH TERMS FOR A SEARCH ENGINE - A content searching data processing system can be configured for specifying weighted search terms for a search engine. The system can include a search engine executing in a host server. The search engine can be coupled to a search index and can be configured for communicative coupling to different content browsers executing in respective clients over a computer communications network. Finally, the system can include weighted search term logic coupled to the search engine. The logic can include program code enabled to render a search term entry user interface in which variable weights are specified for corresponding search terms, to assign the variable weights to the corresponding search terms and to issue a search to the search engine with the search terms and variable weights and to return results of the search to a requesting one of the content browsers. | 07-23-2009 |
20090187576 | TAG SYNDICATES - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social bookmarking and provide a method, system and computer program product for tag syndicates in a social bookmarking system. In an embodiment of the invention, a tag syndicate method can be provided. The method can include establishing different tag syndicates, each tag syndicate providing a specified set of users of a social bookmarking system. The method further can include selecting at least one tag syndicate for use in conducting a content operation, and performing a content operation utilizing the social bookmarking system based upon the selected tag syndicate or syndicates. In this regard, the content operation can be a visible operation such as a type ahead operation, or a logical operation such as sorting content search results. | 07-23-2009 |
20090187580 | INTEGRATED VIEW OF MULTI-SOURCED INFORMATION OBJECTS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to user interface rendering for information objects and provide method, system and computer program product for an integrated view of multi-sourced information objects. In an embodiment of the invention, an attention manager data processing system can be provided. The system can include integrated view logic executing in a computing device and an attention manager user interface generated by program code of the integrated view logic. The user interface can include a grid of quadrants. Each quadrant can correspond to a unique combination of importance and urgency. The quadrant further can include representations of underlying information objects from multiple different sources of information objects. Correspondingly, each information object can include a respective importance and urgency consistent with a corresponding one of the quadrants. | 07-23-2009 |
20090187624 | USER PIVOT NAVIGATION OF SHARED SOCIAL MEDIA - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social media navigation in a social network and provide a method, system and computer program product for user pivot for media sharing in a social network. In an embodiment of the invention, a social networking data processing system for user pivot navigation. The system can include a social network executing in a host server, the social network providing shared media for viewing by communicatively coupled clients. The system also can include user pivot logic coupled to the social network. The logic can include program code enabled to identify a user of the social network associated with shared media selected for display in a media view to a requesting user and to generate a navigation view in a consistent location in a user interface to the social network irrespective of a page view rendered in the user interface, the view providing a link to a profile page for the identified user | 07-23-2009 |
20090187829 | AGGREGATION AND VISUALIZATION OF REUSED SHARED LISTS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for aggregating and visualizing reused shared lists. A method for aggregating and visualizing reused shared lists can include selecting an existing shared list, determining a topic for the selected shared list, receiving list items by rank for the determined topic, generating a new shared list with the determined topic and received list items, and storing the new shared list in association with the existing shared list. The method further can include providing a reused shared list view for all reused shared lists for a common topic. Finally, the method can include aggregating all reused shared lists for a common topic and providing a view of the aggregation with list items either for each rank for each reused shared list or in rank order for all reused shared lists for the common topic. | 07-23-2009 |
20090187844 | GAME DETERMINATION OF TAG RELEVANCE FOR SOCIAL BOOKMARKING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for game determined tag relevance for social bookmarking. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for the game determination of tag relevance for social bookmarking can be provided. The method can include rendering a game user interface in connection with content in a content browser, providing a list of tags previously associated with the content in the game user interface for a game participant and receiving relevance values for the tags through the game user interface provided by the game participant for each of the tags, comparing the relevance values to relevance values provided by others to generate a score and presenting the score in the game user interface, and applying the received relevance values to the tags to improve quality for each of the tags in association with the content. | 07-23-2009 |
20090187865 | SITE-WIDE NAVIGATION ELEMENT FOR USER ACTIVITY IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social networking and provide a method, system and computer program product for site-wide recent action management in a social network. In an embodiment of the invention, a social networking data processing system can be provided. The system can include a social networking application executing in a host server and generating different page views for different users of the social networking application. The system also can include a data store of recent actions for different ones of the users. Finally the system can include a site-wide navigation element displayed in each of the page views for each of the users irrespective of the page view and whether or not the page view is a home page or profile page. In particular, the element can include user links to different profile pages for different users with recent actions. | 07-23-2009 |
20090193096 | SYSTEM AND PRODUCT FOR ROLE-BASED TAG MANAGEMENT FOR COLLABORATIVE SERVICES INTEGRATED WITHIN AN SOA - A tag management system for a user of a client-side portal application providing access to a set of services that include provisions for collaborative tagging of content comprises one or more data repositories configured to maintain one or more separate sets of tags, a messaging intermediary configured to provide access to the one or more data repositories and to provide for communication with the set of services, and a client-side agent configured to communicate with the set of services and access the one or more data repositories through the message intermediary to act on instructions provided by the user in one or more user roles. A set of tags corresponds to each service in each user role and specifies an available vocabulary for tagging content at that service. The agent is configured to access the one or more data repositories to load a first set of tags corresponding a user-specified service and a user-specified role, display the first set of tags to the user, and to communicate with the user-specified service to post tags selected by the user from the first set of tags to content at the user-specified service. | 07-30-2009 |
20090282087 | AUTOMATICALLY CHANGING TAGS - Time-style tags are provided. These user specified social tags automatically change as a function of time or triggering event. The invention tags include:
| 11-12-2009 |
20100077300 | Computer Method and Apparatus Providing Social Preview in Tag Selection - A computer method and apparatus of social tagging computer resources is disclosed. In the invention method and apparatus, a data store holds social tagging data of previously followed tags throughout a system. In response to end-user indication of a tag candidate, the invention system retrieves from the data store social tagging data about the tag candidate. A tag previewer forms and renders a display of the retrieved social tagging data. The display indicates number of users having interest in (i.e., having followed, searched with, browsed and/or subscribed to) the candidate tag and its variants, and the type of interest. The display may further indicate identities (e.g., email addresses) of these users having such interest. The display may serve as a precommit preview to the end-user during selection of a tag (the candidate) for a given resource. Alternatively, the tag previewer may provide the invention display of social tagging data during end-user browsing as well. | 03-25-2010 |
20100113155 | GENERATING CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS FROM AN ONLINE GAME - A content recommendation method can include retrieving contacts for a player of a content recommendation game and listing content associated with the retrieved contacts and prompting the player in response to a selection of a particular one of the listed content to identify a specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. The particular one of the listed content can be recommended to the identified specific one of the retrieved contacts when the player has incorrectly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. Otherwise, the player can be awarded points in the game to a game score for the player for having correctly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. | 05-06-2010 |
20100131666 | System and Method for Managing Data Transfers Between Information Protocols - A computer data handling method, system and apparatus are disclosed. A data item or information object are received in one protocol. Based on data contents, a protocol transfer module (engine) optimizes information presentation by transferring/converting the data item from the one protocol to a form of the data item in a different protocol. The resulting form (i.e. the data item/information object in the different protocol) optimally presents the data contents to an end-user. The end user reads the converted data item in the different protocol. The invention system enables the user to reply or otherwise further handle the data item in the initial protocol as desired. The initial protocol may be email and the resulting form of the data item may be one or more feed entries in machine-readable feeds specified by the user. The invention optimization effectively reduces email In-box clutter and streamlines reading in feed readers. | 05-27-2010 |
20100132044 | Computer Method and Apparatus Providing Brokered Privacy of User Data During Searches - Computer method and apparatus brokers and provides user data in a computer network of users. The invention system stores user data of the users. A search engine enables a searching user to query the stored user data and maintain anonymity of the users. The invention system brokers the query/search results. Each user whose stored user data matches the query maintains stewardship or control over the exposure of her/his user data. An output unit displays to the searching user the matching user data as brokered through (approved and optionally edited by) the respective user. | 05-27-2010 |
20100146010 | RECIPROCAL TAGS IN SOCIAL TAGGING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for reciprocal tagging of resources in a computer communications network. A method for reciprocal tagging of resources can include specifying a resource in a computing system for tagging and identifying a reciprocal resource to the specified resource and generating a tag for a specified resource, the tag referencing the reciprocal resource and specifying a relationship between the specified resource and the reciprocal resource. The method further can include additionally generating a reciprocal tag for the reciprocal resource, the reciprocal tag referencing the specified resource in the reciprocal tag and indicating a reciprocal relationship between the specified resource and the reciprocal resource. Finally, the method can include storing both tags in a data store of reciprocal tags for subsequent access. | 06-10-2010 |
20100161749 | BODY-LESS EMAIL FOR ASYNCHRONOUS CHAT-LIKE COMMUNICATIONS AND EMAIL-CHAT INTEGRATION - A system and method integrate synchronous electronic (e.g., chat) communications with asynchronous electronic communications in the form of body-less electronic mail messages (emails). Body-less emails have a subject line but lack a message body capable of receiving message content. When converting a synchronous electronic communication into a body-less email, a processor places each text message of the synchronous electronic communication into the subject line of the body-less email. When converting a received body-less email into a synchronous electronic communication, the processor places each text message in the subject line of the body-less email into a chat format. A user can readily transition between asynchronous and synchronous communications. | 06-24-2010 |
20100169325 | SEARCH RESULTS DISPLAY FOR WEIGHTED MULTI-TERM SEARCHES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for displaying search results for weighted, multi-term content searches. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for displaying search results for weighted, multi-term content searches is provided. The method includes specifying different weighted search terms for a content search and performing the content search for both content and content meta-data in a search engine. The method also includes retrieving search results for the content search and computing a relevance for each of the weighted search terms. Finally, the method includes presenting both the search results and also a relevance indicator for each computed relevance for each of the weighted search terms found in connection with each of the search results in a user interface to the search engine. | 07-01-2010 |
20100228730 | INFERRING SENSITIVE INFORMATION FROM TAGS - A set of tags can be identified from a first set of tagged documents in a first repository. A set of tags can be identified from a second set of tagged documents in a second repository. Access to documents in the second repository can be more restrictive than access to documents in the first repository. For each of a subset tags in the first set and/or the second set, a number of steps can occur. A ratio can be determined of tag instances in the second repository compared to tag instances in the first repository. It can be determined whether the ratio exceeds a previously determined threshold. When the threshold is exceeded, an indicator of at least one tagged document associated with the tag can be changed to indicate that the tagged document is likely to contain sensitive content. | 09-09-2010 |
20110093791 | Managing activity reuse in a collaborative computing environment - A method, system and apparatus for managing activity reuse in a collaborative environment. The method can include the step of creating a new activity instance based upon an existing activity instance. Specifically, the creating step can include the steps of selecting an activity template and creating the new activity instance based upon the selected activity template and/or selecting a portion of an existing activity instance and creating the new activity instance based upon the selected portion. In either case, the method further can include the step of applying changes to the selected portion of the existing activity instance to the new activity instance. Finally, the method can include the step of annotating the new activity instance to refine the new activity instance for reuse. For instance, the annotating step can include coordinating a collaborative annotation of the new activity instance as an activity-in-progress. | 04-21-2011 |
20110137689 | ENHANCED LOCAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES FOR ATM BANKING MACHINES - Automated teller machine in banking has user-interactive interface. The user interface provides both banking functions and social functions. The social functions include interactive information regarding location-based services and events, and include social networking services. Operations of the social functions include making restaurant reservations, purchasing show or game tickets and chatting with other bank customers at a respective ATM. The bank may generate revenue from local area services advertising on ATM's and from supporting customer-user chat sessions. | 06-09-2011 |
20110145719 | PEOPLE RECOMMENDATION INDICATOR METHOD AND APPARATUS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE - An indicator method and system recommends people in a computerized social networking site. Indicators in a user interface indicate user-relatedness and/or connectedness information between a given user and other people of the social networking site. The user interface employs the indicators to consistently make people recommendations to the given user. The indicators may be visual including symbolic, graphically illustrative and recommendation score (extent) indicating. The user interface places and displays the indicator at each occurrence of the recommended person's name and/or image throughout each pertinent screen view/page of the social networking site. | 06-16-2011 |
20110153670 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DYNAMIC FIELD-LEVEL ACCESS CONTROL IN A WIKI - A method, system, and computer program product for dynamic field-level access control in a Wiki. The method comprises: inserting a virtual field in a Wiki using delimiters; and assigning sole ownership of the virtual field to a user who first inserts the virtual field, where the owner of the virtual field controls access to the virtual field using at least one access control list. | 06-23-2011 |
20110213840 | ROLE-BASED TAG MANAGEMENT FOR COLLABORATIVE SERVICES INTEGRATED WITHIN A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE - A tag management system for a user of a client-side portal application providing access to a set of services that include provisions for collaborative tagging of content comprises one or more data repositories configured to maintain one or more separate sets of tags, a messaging intermediary configured to provide access to the one or more data repositories and to provide for communication with the set of services, and a client-side agent configured to communicate with the set of services and access the one or more data repositories through the message intermediary to act on instructions provided by the user in one or more user roles. A set of tags corresponds to each service in each user role and specifies an available vocabulary for tagging content at that service. The agent is configured to access the one or more data repositories to load a first set of tags corresponding a user-specified service and a user-specified role, display the first set of tags to the user, and to communicate with the user-specified service to post tags selected by the user from the first set of tags to content at the user-specified service. | 09-01-2011 |
20120102164 | DEPLOYMENT OF LOCATION BASED APPLICATIONS WITH CROWDSOURCED STRUCTURED POINTS OF INPUT FOR DATA ENTRY - A method for managing location based applications providing crowdsourced structured points of input for data entry includes deploying deployable applications to a mobile computing device. Each deployable application includes a location based application component and a corresponding point of input defining structured data to be provided through a user interface control for a portion of a display for the application component. The method also includes selecting a subset of the deployable applications for display in the mobile computing device and activating one of the deployable applications in the subset for display in the mobile computing device to receive data input. Further, the method includes receiving data input for a point of input corresponding to a location based application component of the activated one of the deployable applications. Finally, the method includes storing geographic coordinates and the data input in connection with a portion of a display, such as a map display, for a corresponding application component of the activated one of the deployable applications. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102165 | CROWDSOURCING LOCATION BASED APPLICATIONS AND STRUCTURED DATA FOR LOCATION BASED APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying a location based applications providing crowdsourced structured points of input for data entry. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for deploying a location based application providing crowdsourced structured points of input for data entry includes the selection of a location based application component, such as a map, for inclusion in a deployable application and the definition of a point of input for the location based application component. In this regard, the point of input can include at least one user interface control accepting data input of structured data. Finally the deployable application can be uploaded to a deployable application repository over a computer communications network for deployment to requesting mobile devices over the computer communications network. | 04-26-2012 |
20120203783 | PROCESSING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES ACCORDING TO SENDER CLASSIFICATION - A computer-implemented method of sorting electronic messages can include identifying at least one recipient of an electronic message and retrieving a classification scheme of the recipient. An identifier can be included within the electronic message. The identifier can specify a tag selected from the classification scheme of the recipient. The electronic message, including the identifier specifying the selected tag, can be sent. | 08-09-2012 |
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 |
20130007659 | REPRESENTING AN INTEREST PRIORITY OF AN OBJECT TO A USER BASED ON PERSONAL HISTORIES OR SOCIAL CONTEXT - A method and apparatus assigns a quantative variable to each object (or set of objects) in a collection available to a user. The quantative variable is referred to as the Interest Priority Value (IPV). The IPV defines a range of states of the object, between ‘accessed’ and ‘unaccessed’, and is calculated based on one or more attributes of the object. A object with the highest IPV is the most ‘unaccessed,’ and the object with the lowest IPV is the least ‘unaccessed.’ The IPV may be used in a visual representation of the collection of objects, thereby permitting a user to readily identify and obtain those objects of greatest interest to the particular user. | 01-03-2013 |
20130125030 | ACCESSIBLE LIST NAVIGATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and computer program product for accessible list navigation. In one embodiment of the invention, a user interface article of manufacture configured for accessible list navigation can include markup defining a list including multiple list item, an obscured marker associated with at least one of the list items, and jump logic disposed in the obscured marker. Specifically, the jump logic can be programmed to navigate to a specified different one of the list items responsive to an activation of the obscured marker. Finally, alternate text can be disposed in the obscured marker which identifies the different one of the list items. As such, assistive technology can be programmed to read back the alternate text responsive to an activation of the obscured marker. | 05-16-2013 |
20140089319 | ONLINE MEDIA SHARING WITH ACTIVITY BALANCING AND INCENTIVES - Activity is balanced in a media sharing environment. To balance the activity, a computer determines the uploading activity of a plurality of members of a media sharing environment, as well as the tagging activity of the plurality of members. The computer compares the uploading activity to the tagging activity and determines a scoring coefficient responsive to the comparison. The computer determines a member score for one of the plurality of members based on the scoring coefficient. The computer can subject the member to discipline if the member score violates a low threshold, or to a reward if the member score violates a high threshold. The scoring coefficient can be determined to induce the plurality of members to favor either one of the uploading activity and the tagging activity over the other. | 03-27-2014 |
20140214971 | ESTABLISHING AN AUTOMATIC COMMUNICATIONS DELAY BASED ON SOCIAL OR BUSINESS NETWORK FACTORS - Methods and arrangements for imparting a communications delay. A delay is dynamically determined for sending an outgoing communication. The determining includes using information derived from at least one of: a social network graph and a business network graph, and the determined delay is applied to the outgoing communication. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214973 | ESTABLISHING AN AUTOMATIC COMMUNICATIONS DELAY BASED ON PREVAILING ACTIVITY FACTORS - Methods and arrangements for imparting a communications delay. A delay is dynamically determined for sending an outgoing communication. The determining includes using information derived from a determination of a prevailing activity level of a sender, and the determined delay is applied to the outgoing communication. | 07-31-2014 |
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20140304340 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO BREAK COMMUNICATION THREADS - A method and system for breaking a communications thread on a communications system includes monitoring a communications system having a plurality of users. An initial communications thread is identified between two or more of the plurality of users on the communications system. The initial communications thread is broken based on a criteria. The criteria includes a user initiated break wherein a user selectively breaks the initial communications thread. New communications threads are generated from the break in the initial communications thread which include, a first thread including communications before the break and a second thread including communications after the break. A link may be generated in each of the first and second threads referring to the other thread such that the initial communications thread is reconstituted when either of the links are selected. | 10-09-2014 |
20140365920 | HUMAN-TO-HUMAN COLLABORATIVE SESSION REQUEST QUEUE PROCESSING - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to queued requests to establish human-to-human collaborative sessions and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for managing queued requests to establish human-to-human collaborative sessions. In one embodiment, a human-to-human collaborative data processing system can be provided which can include a messenger configured for coupling to other messengers. The system further can include a queue of incoming session requests to establish respective human-to-human collaborative sessions with requestors associated with the other messengers. Finally, the system can include queue management logic enabled to order the session requests in the queue according to queue rules coupled to the queue management logic. | 12-11-2014 |
20150052448 | PROVIDING TAG SETS TO ASSIST IN THE USE AND NAVIGATION OF A FOLKSONOMY - Tag sets are provided to assist in the navigation and use of a folksonomy. The collaborative tag sets are social in nature. As more users group two tags together into tag sets, the disclosed system causes the association between those two tags to grow stronger, as exposed in the bookmark system user interface when alternative tags are suggested for browsing the bookmarks in a folksonomy. Tags that are grouped together by a user into a tag set have the strongest possible weight for that user, and accordingly the disclosed system automatically applies all tags in a set when that user is retrieving bookmarks if the user selects at least one of tags in the set. Tags not in the user's tag sets, but included in the public tag set(s) of another user(s) are displayed in the user interface as tag suggestions. | 02-19-2015 |
20150081698 | LOGGING EXTERNAL EVENTS IN A PERSISTENT HUMAN-TO-HUMAN CONVERSATIONAL SPACE - A method, system and apparatus for logging external events in a human-to-human conversational space. In a preferred aspect of the invention, a persistent human-to-human conversational system can include a persistent human-to-human conversational tool such as a persistent chat tool, and an external event processor coupled to the persistent human-to-human conversational tool. The system further can include a query interface to the persistent human-to-human conversational tool. Finally, the system can include one or more collaborative tools communicatively linked to the persistent human-to-human conversational tool. | 03-19-2015 |