Activity stream based collaboration

• US 10,447,568 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2018
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Open Text Corporation
• Original Assignee: Open Text Corporation
• Inventors: van Rotterdam, Jeroen Mattijs, Frankel, Gary
• Primary Examiner(s): Bayard, Djenane M
• Application Number:
  US15/913,587
• Publication Number:
  US 20180198697A1
• Time in Patent Office: 588 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0888 Throughput
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

An activity stream based interaction model is disclosed. To cause a desired application level action to be performed at a remote system, such as automatically retrieving and displaying a document in a viewer or other portion of a user interface at the remote system, a text-based tag, such as a hash tag, is inserted into an activity stream. The activity stream is sent to the remote system, which is configured to respond to the text-based tag by performing, at least in part automatically, the corresponding application level action.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a communication interface;

a memory configured with associations between a plurality of text-based control tags and a plurality of application-level actions;

a processor coupled to the communication interface and the memory and configured to;

receive an activity stream of messages by users participating in an activity stream-facilitated collaboration, the activity stream of messages comprising a user conversation;

display text-based messages from the activity stream on a user interface in a time order;

detect, in the activity stream, a text-based control tag received from a remote system;

map the text-based control tag to an application-level action from the plurality of application-level actions based on the associations between the plurality of text-based control tags and application level-actions;

determine a current context for the application-level action;

automatically perform the application-level action based on the current context; and

wherein the memory is configured to provide instructions to the processor.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the application-level action includes retrieving a stored object from a repository and displaying the stored object in the user interface.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the text-based control tag identifies the stored object to be retrieved and displayed.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the memory stores the associations between the plurality of text-based control tags and the plurality of application-level actions in a lookup table of application-level actions corresponding to text-based control tags and mapping the text-based control tag to the application-level action comprises accessing the lookup table.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the application-level action is associated with at least a portion of the user interface.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the application-level action comprises an action to cause a search to be performed in a manner indicated by text-based control tag and return and display of associated search results in the user interface.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the activity stream is associated with a collaboration between a local user and second user at the remote system.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to receive the activity stream on a channel subscribed to by the processor.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to:

display the text-based messages from the activity stream in a first element of the user interface;

responsive to detecting the text-based control tag, broadcast an event on an event bus that to notify a second element of the user interface that the text-based control tag has been detected; and

perform the application-level action using the second element of the user interface.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to:

determine if the text-based control tag specifies an object;

based on a determination that the text-based control tag specifies the object, automatically perform the application-level action with respect to the object; and

based on a determination that the text-based control tag does not specify the object, perform the said determine the current context for the application-level action and said automatically perform the application-level action based on the current context.

11. A computer program product embodied in a tangible, non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising instructions for:

receiving an activity stream of messages by users participating in an activity stream-facilitated collaboration, the activity stream of messages comprising a user conversation;

displaying text-based messages from the activity stream on a user interface in a time order;

detecting, in the activity stream, a text-based control tag received from a remote system;

accessing a memory configured with associations between a plurality of text-based control tags and application-level actions;

mapping the text-based control tag to an application-level action from the plurality of application-level actions based on the associations between the plurality of text-based control tans and application-level actions;

determining a current context for the application-level action; and

automatically performing the application-level action based on the current context.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the application-level action includes retrieving a stored object from a repository and displaying the stored object in the user interface.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the text-based control tag identifies the stored object to be retrieved and displayed.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the instructions for accessing the memory configured with associations between the plurality of text-based control tags and application-level actions comprise computer instructions for accessing a lookup table of application-level actions corresponding to text-based control tags.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the application-level action is associated with at least a portion of the user interface.

16. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the application-level action comprises an action to cause a search to be performed in a manner indicated by text-based control tag.

17. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising instructions to receive the activity stream from the remote system on a subscribed to channel.

18. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer readable medium further comprises instructions to cause a tag recognizer to broadcast an event on an event bus that notifies other elements that the text-based control tag has been detected.

19. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer readable medium comprises instructions for:

determining if the text-based control tag specifies an object;

based on a determination that the text-based control tag specifies the object, automatically performing the application-level action with respect to the object; and

based on a determination that the text-based control tag does not specify the object, performing the said determining the current context for the application-level action and said automatically performing the application-level action based on the current context.

20. The computer program product of claim 11, comprising instructions for:

displaying the text-based messages from the activity stream in a first element of the user interface;

responsive to detecting the text-based control tag, broadcasting an event on an event bus to notify a second element of the user interface that the text-based control tag has been detected; and

performing the application-level action using the second element of the user interface.