Method and system for providing synchronous communication and person awareness in a place
First Claim
1. Method for conducting communications within collaboration space, comprising the steps of:
- organizing said collaboration space to include a place;
said place being implemented as a directory; and
establishing synchronous communications as a chat session between two or more parties visiting said place.
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Abstract
Collaboration space object model provides for a place consisting of rooms created by users interacting with a client browser. A skin (i.e., theme) may be used as template for creating places. PlaceBots (i.e., agents) provide for accessing, processing and managing data in a place. HTML may be dragged and dropped into a place, where it is parsed and corresponding place fields created. MS Excel or Word documents may be dragged and dropped into a place, which creates a corresponding form, and users may create new documents using that form. A place type comprising a template of an entire place, or collaboration space, may be used to create new places. Changes made to a place may be reported, subject to security controls, by selecting what'"'"'s new. Task fields are provided allowing web browser creation of forms for work flow. Place enabled objects are provided for synchronous communications. A quick browse feature provides a simplified format for browser windows based on selection of HTML links. MS Office documents may launched within a place for in place editing and importing the resulting document into the place.
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33 Claims
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1. Method for conducting communications within collaboration space, comprising the steps of:
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organizing said collaboration space to include a place;
said place being implemented as a directory; and
establishing synchronous communications as a chat session between two or more parties visiting said place. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. Method for communicating between users in collaboration space, comprising the steps of:
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establishing a place within said collaboration space and enabling a chat feature among members of said place; and
responsive to member selection, enabling a user who is a member of said place to chat selectively with one other member, a plurality of other members, or with all members of said place who currently have an open chat window. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. System for synchronous communications between users in collaboration space, comprising:
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a server;
a plurality of browsers for presenting user interfaces to a place in said collaboration space; and
said user interface including a chat window for displaying messages and replies to messages as a temporary transcript of a chat session among members of said place. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for conducting communications within collaboration space, said method steps comprising:
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organizing said collaboration space to include a place;
said place being implemented as a directory; and
establishing synchronous communications as a chat session between two or more parties visiting said place.
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32. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for conducting communications within collaboration space, said method steps comprising:
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establishing a place within said collaboration space and enabling a chat feature among members of said place; and
responsive to member selection, enabling a user who is a member of said place to chat selectively with one other member, a plurality of other members, or with all members of said place who currently have an open chat window.
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33. A computer program product or computer program element for conducting communications within collaboration space by organizing said collaboration space to include a place;
- said place being implemented as a directory; and
establishing synchronous communications as a chat session between two or more parties visiting said place.
- said place being implemented as a directory; and
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