Machine-implemented activity management system using asynchronously shared activity data objects and journal data items
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Abstract
Machine-assisted methods and apparatus are disclosed for allowing individual users to develop and organize respective activity descriptions and supporting journal items according to their respective preferences. Cross-referencing mappings may be created between activity descriptions and journal items in order to find, filter and organize disparate data. Cross-referencing mappings may also be created between the developed activity descriptions of different users so they can better understand each others perspectives and possibly overlapping goals. Different users'"'"' activity descriptions can be presented to a user even while the user may be disconnected from communication networks. Hierarchical relationships between activity descriptions may be provided. Machine-assisted means may be provided for creating work-sharing, work-delegating and/or informational sharing agreements between different users. Further machine-implemented means may be provided for automatically and asynchronously updating users on shared activities by other users even though all users are not necessarily connected to one or more respective communication networks at same time.
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89 Claims
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39. An expression storing and transmitting system usable by a first user such that the first user can develop expressions of ideas for one or more activities and can share selectable ones of the expressed activity ideas with one or more other users, wherein the expression storing and transmitting system comprises:
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(a) activity description recording means for recording in an activity descriptions holding area belonging to the first user, a first set of first one or more activity descriptions wherein each said recorded activity description comprises an activity data object (ADO) and wherein each given ADO comprises;
(a.1) at least one of a short activity descriptor field and long activity descriptor field for respectively providing a relatively short description and a comparatively longer and more detailed description of a corresponding LPh activity of the given ADO; and
(a.2) an ADO owner identifying field for identifying an owner-user who has ownership and modification rights over the said ADO for thereby creating or modifying at least one of said short description and comparatively longer and more detailed description of the corresponding activity of the given ADO; and
(a.3) a uniqueness providing field for use alone or in combination with said ADO owner identifying field for providing the given ADO with a unique identification so as to make the given ADO uniquely identifiable respectively among other ADO'"'"'s owned by said owner-user of the given ADO and among other ADO'"'"'s owned by a specifiable pool of other users with whom the owner-user of the given ADO is sharing or may be sharing activity idea information; and
(b) first sharing means for transmitting copies of selected activity description expressions stored in the said activity descriptions holding area to alike systems or unalike systems usable by one or more other users. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 46, 48, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57, 59, 60, 61, 71, 72)
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40. The expression storing and transmitting system of 39 and further wherein:
(a) the said activity description recording means includes means for recording in one or more activity descriptions holding areas, corresponding ones of activity descriptions.
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41. The expression storing and transmitting system of 39 and further comprising:
(b) journaling means for recording in one or more journal data items holding areas, corresponding ones of journal data items.
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89. An idea sharing device comprising:
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a memory;
a machine-implemented recorder coupled to the memory and configured to record in the memory uniquely identifiable expressions of ideas, where each recorded expression of an idea includes at least a short idea descriptor field and a longer descriptor field for respectively storing a relatively short description and a comparatively longer and more detailed description of the corresponding idea;
an owner identifying field for identifying an owner-user who has ownership and modification rights over the relatively short description and the comparatively longer and more detailed description; and
a uniqueness providing field for use alone or in combination with said owner identifying field for thereby providing the corresponding recorded expression of the idea a unique identification; and
a transmitter coupled to the coupled to the memory and configured to selectively transmit one or more of the uniquely identifiable expressions of ideas recorded in said memory.
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