MONITORING GROUP ACTIVITIES
First Claim
1. An activity monitoring system that facilitates managing and optimizing user activity automatically to improve overall user productivity and efficiency comprising:
- a monitoring component that can monitor user activity conducted on one or more computing devices; and
an activity management component which can process and evaluate user activity data to assess user performance on their respective activities and the current allocation of system and human resources.
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Abstract
A unique monitoring system and method is provided that involves monitoring user activity in order to facilitate managing and optimizing the utilization of various system resources. In particular, the system can monitor user activity, detect when users need assistance with their specific activities, and identify at least one other user that can assist them. Assistance can be in the form of answering questions, providing guidance to the user as the user completes the activity, or completing the activity such as in the case of taking on an assigned activity. In addition, the system can aggregate activity data across users and/or devices. As a result, problems with activity templates or activities themselves can be more readily identified, user performance can be readily compared, and users can communicate and exchange information regarding similar activity experiences. Furthermore, synchronicity and time-sensitive scheduling of activities between users can be facilitated and improved overall.
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20 Claims
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1. An activity monitoring system that facilitates managing and optimizing user activity automatically to improve overall user productivity and efficiency comprising:
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a monitoring component that can monitor user activity conducted on one or more computing devices; and an activity management component which can process and evaluate user activity data to assess user performance on their respective activities and the current allocation of system and human resources. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An activity monitoring method that facilitates managing and optimizing user activity to improve overall user productivity and efficiency comprising:
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monitoring user activity conducted on one or more computing devices; processing the user activity based in part on respective user data; and managing the user activity in at least one of a manual or an automated manner in part by determining at least one of user performance or user progress with respect to the user activity. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An activity monitoring system that facilitates managing and optimizing user activity automatically to improve overall user productivity and efficiency comprising:
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means for monitoring user activity conducted on one or more computing devices; means for processing and evaluating user activity data to assess user performance on their respective activities and the current allocation of system and human resources; means for detecting that a user needs assistance with a target activity; and means for selecting at least one assisting user to assist the user with the target activity based on an analysis of the assisting user and the target activity.
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