Systems and methods for displaying text recommendations during collaborative note taking

• US 20030197729A1
• Filed: 04/19/2002
• Published: 10/23/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Denoue, Laurent, Chiu, Patrick, Fuse, Tohru
• Granted Patent: US 7,680,820 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/751
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Multiple users access a collaborative data-sharing system during a data-sharing event. Each user can establish the level of sharing to be allowed with each other user and filtering criteria for filtering the data before it is provided to the other users. Data can be extracted from a number of different sources, including data input by other users and/or previously created information sources. For example, slides from a presentation on a similar topic may be identified and included by a user as a potential source of information to be used by other users. Shared data can be displayed on devices used by users to communicate with the collaborative data-sharing system. A user can selected data provided by the collaborative data-sharing system, which was obtained from the data input by other users and/or from the identified additional data sources and added to that user'"'"'s data as data entered by that user.

Claims

1. A user device usable to communicate with a collaborative data management system, comprising:

at least one user data input device usable by a user to input data;

a display device usable to display the data input by the user and data received from the collaborative data management system;

an interface usable to connect the user device to the collaborative data management system, wherein at least a portion of the data input by the user is provided to the collaborative data management system; and

a graphical user interface displayable on the display device, the graphical user interface comprising;

a data entering portion usable to enter data, and

a data display portion usable to display data received from the collaborative data management system, the data received from the collaborative data management system comprising at least portions of data entered by other users and provided to the collaborative data management system.

2. The user device of claim 1, further comprising a filter circuit, routine or application that filters data, entered by the user using the at least one data input device, to generate filtered data, wherein the at least a portion of the data input by the user and provided to the collaborative data management system comprises the filtered data.

3. The user device of claim 2, further comprising:

a memory; and

a second graphical user interface usable to enter filter parameters, the filter parameters stored in the memory and usable by the filter circuit, routine or application to filter the data entered by the user to generate the filtered data.

4. The user device of claim 3, wherein the filter parameters enterable using the second graphical user interface include at least one of a sharing level and an indication of which other users to allow the user'"'"'s data to be shared with.

5. The user device of claim 1, further comprising:

a memory; and

a second graphical user interface usable to enter data parameters, the data parameters stored in the memory and usable by the user device to identify additional data to be provided to each user by the collaborative data management system.

6. The user device of claim 5, wherein the data parameters comprise at least one of a location of a collaborative data-sharing event, a type of the collaborative data-sharing event, and material related to the collaborative data-sharing event.

7. The user device of claim 5, wherein the data comprises notes made during a collaborative note-taking event.

8. The user device of claim 7, wherein the data parameters comprise at least one of a location of the collaborative note-taking event, a type of the collaborative note-taking event, and material related to the collaborative note-taking event.

9. The user device of claim 1, wherein the data comprises notes made during a collaborative note-taking event.

10. The user device of claim 9, wherein the data parameters comprise at least one of a location of the collaborative note-taking event, a type of the collaborative note-taking event, and material related to the collaborative note-taking event.

11. The user device of claim 1, wherein the data display portion comprises a plurality of selectable data portions, each selectable data portion corresponding to a data portion received from the collaborative data management system.

12. The user device of claim 11, wherein, in response to one of the selectable data portions displayed in the data display portion being selected, at least the data portion corresponding to that selected data portion is displayed in the data entry portion as data input by the user.

17. The user device of claim 6, wherein the data parameters comprise at least one of a location of a collaborative data-sharing event, a type of the collaborative data-sharing event, and material related to the collaborative data-sharing event.

13. A collaborative data management system that manages sharing of data between participants during a collaborative data-sharing event, comprising:

an interface usable to connect the collaborative data management system to a plurality of user devices, each user device associated with a particular participant in the collaborative data-sharing event, wherein, for each user, at least a portion of data input by that user into the user device associated with that user is provided to the collaborative data management system; and

a filter circuit, routine or application that filters the data received from each user to generate filtered data,

wherein, for each user, the collaborative data management system provides to each other user, using the interface, at least the filtered data obtained from the data input by that user.

14. The collaborative data management system of claim 13, further comprising a memory that stores, for each user, filter parameters, the filter parameters usable by the filter circuit, routine or application to filter the data provided by that user to generate the filtered data for that user.

15. The collaborative data management system of claim 14, wherein the filter parameters include at least one of a sharing level and an indication of which other users to allow the user'"'"'s data to be shared with.

16. The collaborative data management system of claim 14, wherein the memory stores data parameters that identify or that are usable to identify additional data to be provided to each user by the collaborative data management system.

18. The user device of claim 13, wherein at least a portion of data input by each user comprises notes made during a collaborative note-taking event.

19. The user device of claim 18, wherein the data parameters comprise at least one of a location of the collaborative note-taking event, a type of the collaborative note-taking event, and material related to the collaborative note-taking event.

20. A method for collaboratively sharing data generated by a plurality of participants during a collaborative data-sharing event, comprising:

filtering the data entered by one of the plurality of participants in the collaborative data-sharing event based on predetermined filtering parameters for that one of the plurality of participants to generated filtered data for that participant; and

providing the filtered data for that participant to each of the other ones of the plurality of participants in the collaborative data-sharing event,

wherein each participant is able to select at least a portion of the filtered data received from the other ones of the plurality of participants for inclusion in the data generated by that participant.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising, prior to the filtering step:

receiving at a central location the predetermined filtering parameters from each of the plurality of participants; and

storing the predetermined filtering parameters received from each of the plurality of participants in a memory of the central location;

wherein filtering the data entered by one of the plurality of participants in the collaborative data-sharing event based on predetermined filtering parameters for that one of the plurality of participants comprises filtering the data entered by one of the plurality of participants in the collaborative data-sharing event based on predetermined filtering parameters for that one of the plurality of participants to generated filtered data for that participant at the central location.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein providing the filtered data for one participant to each of the other ones of the plurality of participants in the collaborative data-sharing event comprises providing the filtered data for one participant to each of the other ones of the plurality of participants in the collaborative data-sharing event from the central location.

23. The method of claim 20, further comprising, prior to the filtering step:

inputting, for each participant, the predetermined filtering parameters for that participant at a user device of that participants; and

storing the predetermined filtering parameters for that participant in a memory of the user device of that participant;

wherein filtering the data entered by one of the plurality of participants in the collaborative data-sharing event based on predetermined filtering parameters for that one of the plurality of participants comprises filtering, for each participant, the data entered by that participant in the collaborative data-sharing event based on predetermined filtering parameters for that participant to generated filtered data for that participant at the user device of that participant.

24. The method of claim 23, further comprising, for each participant forwarding the filtered data for that participant to a central location, wherein providing the filtered data for one participant to each of the other ones of the plurality of participants in the collaborative data-sharing event comprises providing the filtered data for one participant to each of the other ones of the plurality of participants in the collaborative data-sharing event from the central location.

25. The method of claim 20, further comprising, receiving, from at least one of the plurality of participants, second data that identifies additional data to be provided to each participant.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the second data comprises at least one of a location of a collaborative data-sharing event, a type of the collaborative data-sharing event, and material related to the collaborative data-sharing event.

27. The method of claim 20, wherein at least a portion of data entered by each user comprises notes made during a collaborative note-taking event.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the second data comprises at least one of a location of the collaborative note-taking event, a type of the collaborative note-taking event, and material related to the collaborative note-taking event.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein, for each participant, the filtering parameters for that participant include at least one of a sharing level for that participant and an indication of which other participants to allow that participant'"'"'s notes to be shared with.

30. The method of claim 20, wherein, for each participant, the filtering parameters for that participant include at least one of a sharing level for that participant and an indication of which other participants to allow that participant'"'"'s data to be shared with.

31. A graphical user interface usable to display data being collaboratively shared by a plurality of participants during a collaborative data-sharing event, comprising:

a data entry portion within which a user of the graphical user interface can input data, at least a portion of the data entered by the user using the data entry portion being shared with other ones of the participants; and

a shared data portion usable to display a plurality of data portions, each data portion corresponding to at least a portion of data input by other ones of the participants, wherein each data portion is selectable, such that selecting a selectable data portion causes a data entry to be automatically entered into the data entry portion, the automatically entered data entry comprising at least a portion of the data associated with the selected data portion.