SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN INTERFACE FOR COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION

• US 20090217175A1
• Filed: 02/22/2008
• Published: 08/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Bechtel, Michael E., Kampas, Sean R.
• Granted Patent: US 9,298,815 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/751
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06316 Sequencing of tasks or work
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104

Abstract

A system is described for providing an interface for collaborative innovation. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store an item, primary responses, secondary responses and ratings. The interface may communicate with users and a content provider and may allow the users to create primary responses associated with the item, create secondary responses associated with the primary responses and rate the primary and secondary responses. The processor may receive the item from the content provider and provide the interface to the users. The processor may receive the primary and secondary responses from the users, and may display a graphical hierarchical representation of the item and the responses. The processor may allow the users to rate the primary and secondary responses through the graphical hierarchical representation. The processor may provide the primary and secondary responses to the content provider, ordered based on the ratings.

Claims

1. A method for providing an interface for collaborative innovation, the method comprising:

receiving an item from a content provider;

providing an interface to one or more users wherein the interface allows the one or more users to create one or more primary responses associated with the item, create one or more secondary responses, each secondary response associated with one of the one or more primary responses, and rate the primary and secondary responses;

receiving the one or more primary responses associated with the initial item and the one or more secondary responses associated with the primary responses from the one or more users via the interface;

displaying, via the interface, a graphical hierarchical representation of the item, the one or more primary responses, an association between the one or more primary responses and the item, the one or more secondary responses, and an association between the one or more secondary responses and the one or more primary responses;

allowing the plurality of users to rate the primary and secondary responses through the graphical hierarchical representation; and

providing the primary and secondary responses to the content provider wherein the primary and secondary response are ordered based on the ratings.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the interface is accessible via a web browser.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the interface comprises a rich internet application.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the item comprises a question.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein at least one of the one or more primary responses comprises an answer to the question.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more ratings indicate whether the one or more users like the one or more primary and secondary responses.

16. The system of claim 1 wherein the interface comprises a rich internet application.

7. A method for providing an interface for displaying a graphical representation of associated items, the method comprising:

providing an interface for receiving and displaying items;

receiving a first item via the interface;

receiving at plurality of second items associated with the first item via the interface; and

displaying, via the interface, a graphical representation of the first item, the plurality of second items and an association between the first item and each of the second items.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

receiving a plurality of third items associated with the plurality of second items, wherein each third item is associated with at least one second item; and

displaying, via the interface, a graphical representation of the first item, the plurality of second items, the plurality of third items, the association between the first item the plurality of second items, and an association between the plurality of second items and the plurality of third items.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein the graphical representation comprises a tree-like structure.

10. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

allowing a user to select one of the items in the graphical representation via the interface; and

displaying via the interface additional information related to the selected item.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising receiving a rating of the selected item from the user via the interface.

12. The method of claim 7 wherein the interface is accessible via a web browser.

13. A system for providing an interface for collaborative innovation, the method comprising:

means for receiving an item from a content provider;

means for providing an interface to one or more users wherein the interface allows the one or more users to create one or more primary responses associated with the item, create one or more secondary responses, each secondary response associated with one of the one or more primary responses, and rate the primary and secondary responses;

means for receiving the one or more primary responses associated with the initial item and the one or more secondary responses associated with the primary responses from the one or more users via the interface;

means for displaying, via the interface, a graphical hierarchical representation of the item, the one or more primary responses, an association between the one or more primary responses and the item, the one or more secondary responses, and an association between the one or more secondary responses and the one or more primary responses;

means for allowing the plurality of users to rate the primary and secondary responses through the graphical hierarchical representation; and

means for providing the primary and secondary responses to the content provider wherein the primary and secondary response are ordered based on the ratings.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the one or more ratings indicate whether the one or more users like the one or more primary and secondary responses.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein the interface is accessible via a web browser.

17. The system of claim 13 wherein the item comprises a question.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein at least one of the one or more primary responses comprises an answer to the question.

19. A system for providing an interface for collaborative innovation, the system comprising:

a memory to store an item, one or more primary responses, one or more secondary responses, and one or more ratings;

an interface operatively connected to the memory, the interface operative to communicate with a content provider and one or more users, allow the one or more users to create one or more primary responses associated with the item, allow the users to create one or more secondary responses associated with the one or more of the primary responses, and allow the one or more users to provide ratings of the one or more primary and secondary responses; and

a processor operatively connected to the memory and the interface, the processor operative to receive the item from the content provider, provide the interface to the one or more users, receive the one or more primary responses associated with the item, and the one or more secondary responses associated with the primary responses from the one or more users via the interface, display, via the interface, a graphical hierarchical representation of the item, the one or more primary responses, an association between the one or more primary response and the item, the one or more secondary responses, and an association between the one or more secondary responses and the one or more primary responses, allow the plurality of users to rate the primary and secondary responses through the graphical hierarchical representation, and provide the primary and secondary response to the content provider wherein the primary and secondary responses are ordered based on the ratings.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein the interface is accessible via a web browser.

21. The system of claim 19 wherein the interface comprises a rich internet application.

22. The system of claim 19 wherein the item comprises a question.

23. The system of claim 22 wherein at least one of the one or more primary responses comprises an answer to the question.