COLLABORATION NETWORKS BASED ON USER INTERACTIONS WITH MEDIA ARCHIVES

• US 20110125847A1
• Filed: 11/24/2010
• Published: 05/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Altus365 Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Altus Learning Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Prorock, Michael F., COCHEU, THEODORE CLARKE, Prorock, Thomas J.
• Application Number:
  US12/953,849
• Publication Number:
  US 20110125847A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/20 Education

Abstract

Systems and methods allow collaboration based on media archive based systems. Collaboration events are processed within media archive based systems. End user collaborations are improved and the overall content of the original media archive is enhanced. The collaborative content is modified via the addition of user notes and targeted user notes and further collaborations are encouraged via the disclosed event notification system coupled with the user federations and collaboration network of federated users. User notes can comprise one or more media resources, media archive, or other form of computer readable data. Collaboration networks of users are formed to propagate information describing interactions with media archives to users with potential interests in the information. The increase of collaborative content improves the overall body of knowledge on a subject and is therefore provides improved knowledge transfer solutions.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of notifying members of collaboration networks of users associated with a media archive, the method comprising:

identifying a plurality of collaboration networks of users, each collaboration network comprising users that interact with a media archive comprising media resources;

receiving a request for interaction with a first media archive associated with a first collaboration network of users;

responsive to the request for interaction performing an action associated with the first media archive;

identifying a second collaboration network of users associated with a second media archive, wherein an overlap of information associated with the first collaboration network and the second collaboration network exceeding a threshold value; and

sending a notification of the action associated with the first media archive to users of the second collaboration network of users.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the request is a first request, the method further comprising:

receiving a second request for interaction with the second media archive;

responsive to the second request for interaction, performing an action associated with the second media archive; and

sending a notification of the action associated with the second media archive to users of the first collaboration network of users.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein identifying the second collaboration comprises determining that the information of the first media archive matches information of the second media archive.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 3, wherein matching of information of media archives comprises determining that a first set of topics obtained from the first media archive overlaps with a second set of topics obtained from the second media archive.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the interaction between a user of the collaboration network and the associated media archive comprises the user updating a media resource of the media archive.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the interaction between a user of the collaboration network and the associated media archive comprises the user requesting information of a media resource of the media archive.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the interaction between a user of the collaboration network and the associated media archive comprises the user updating a media resource of the media archive comprises the user adding a user note to the media archive.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the interaction between a user of the collaboration network associated with a media archive comprises the user being added to a subscription list associated with the media archive.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the action performed responsive to the request comprises at least one of, updating a media resource of the first media archive, sending information of a media resource of the first media archive to a user, or adding a user note to the first media archive.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the overlap between two collaboration networks of users is determined by the number of users common to the two collaboration networks of users.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the overlap between two collaboration networks of users is determined by the number of users common to the two collaboration networks of users normalized by the number of members in the two collaboration networks.

12. A computer implemented method of notifying members of collaboration networks of users associated with a media archive, the method comprising:

identifying a portion of a media archive comprising media resources, wherein the portion of the media archive comprises correlated portions of media resources, the correlating of portions of the media resource comprising;

identifying a first sequence of patterns in a first media resource and a second sequence of patterns in a second media resource; and

correlating elements of the first sequence of patterns with elements of the second sequence of patterns;

correlating a first portion of the first media resource with a second portion of the second media resource if the first portion comprises elements of first sequence correlated with elements of the second sequence;

identifying a collaboration network of users associated with the portion of the media archive, wherein the users of the collaboration network interact with the portion of the media archive;

receiving a request for interaction with the portion of the media archive;

responsive to the request for interaction performing an action associated with the identified portion of the media archive;

sending a notification of the action to users belonging to the collaboration network of users.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 12, wherein interaction of users belonging to the collaboration network with the portion of the media archive comprises one or more of users subscribing to the portion of the media archive, updating a portion of media resource associated with the portion of media archive, receiving information associated with the portion of the media archive;

14. The computer implemented method of claim 12, wherein the portion of the media archive is a first portion of the media archive, the update is a first update, the collaboration network is a first collaboration network, the method comprising:

identifying a second collaboration network of users associated with a second portion of the media archive, wherein the users of the second collaboration network interact with the second portion of the media archive;

receiving a second update associated with the second portion of the media archive;

sending a notification of the second update to the second portion of the media resource to users belonging to the second collaboration network of users.

15. The computer implemented method of claim 12, wherein the portion of the media archive is a first portion of the media archive, the update is a first update, the collaboration network is a first collaboration network, the method comprising:

identifying a second collaboration network of users associated with a second portion of the media archive, wherein the users of the second collaboration network interact with the second portion of the media archive; and

responsive to determining an overlap of users in the first collaboration network and the second collaboration network, sending a notification of the update to users belonging to the second collaboration network of users.

16. The computer implemented method of claim 12, wherein the portion of the media archive is a first portion of the media archive, the update is a first update, the collaboration network is a first collaboration network, the method comprising:

identifying a second collaboration network of users associated with a second portion of the media archive, wherein the users of the second collaboration network interact with the second portion of the media archive;

responsive to determining an overlap of topics described in the first portion and the second portion, sending a notification of the update to users belonging to the second collaboration network of users;

17. A computer implemented method of notifying members of collaboration networks of users associated with a media archive, the method comprising:

identifying a plurality of collaboration networks of users, each collaboration network comprising users that interact with a media archive comprising media resources;

maintaining a hierarchy of collaboration networks of users, wherein the hierarchy comprises a plurality of levels, each collaboration network associated with a level, the collaboration networks at higher levels comprising one or more collaboration networks at lower levels;

receiving a request for interaction with a media archive associated with a collaboration network of users;

responsive to the request for interaction performing an action associated with the media archive;

selecting a collaboration network of users from the hierarchy of collaboration networks, wherein the selection is based on the action associated with the media archive; and

sending a notification of the action associated with the media archive to users of the selected collaboration network of users.

18. The computer implemented method of claim 17, wherein maintaining the hierarchy of collaboration networks of users comprises combining a first collaboration network and a second collaboration network at a low level to obtain a third collaboration network at a high level responsive to an overlap between the first collaboration network and the second collaboration network exceeding a threshold value.

19. The computer implemented method of claim 18, wherein the overlap between the first collaboration network and the second collaboration network is determined by the number of users belonging to both the first collaboration network and the second collaboration network.

20. The computer implemented method of claim 18, wherein the overlap between the first collaboration network and the second collaboration network is determined by the number of users common to the both collaboration networks of users normalized by the number of members in the first collaboration network and the second collaboration network.

21. The computer implemented method of claim 17, further comprising:

determining topics associated with each collaboration network of the hierarchy based on the information in the media archives associated with users of each collaboration network; and

wherein selection of the collaboration network for the media archive is based on a matching of the information in the media archive with the topics of the selected collaboration network.

22. The computer implemented method of claim 17, wherein the selection of the collaboration network for the media archive is based on information identifying the user requesting the action.

23. The computer implemented method of claim 17, wherein the selection of the collaboration network for the media archive is based on the media archive.

24. The computer implemented method of claim 17, wherein the selection of the collaboration network for the media archive is based on the type of action requested.

25. The computer implemented method of claim 17, wherein the information provided with the notification is based on the level of the collaboration network in the hierarchy.

26. The computer implemented method of claim 25, wherein an amount of information provided to users of collaboration networks higher in the hierarchy is less than the amount of information provided to users of collaboration networks lower in the hierarchy.

27. A computer program product having a computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable code for notifying members of collaboration networks of users associated with a media archive, the code comprising:

a universal media convertor module configured to;

identify a plurality of collaboration networks of users, each collaboration network comprising users that interact with a media archive comprising media resources;

a universal media aggregator module configured to;

receive a request for interaction with a first media archive associated with a first collaboration network of users;

responsive to the request for interaction perform an action associated with the first media archive;

identify a second collaboration network of users associated with a second media archive, wherein an overlap between the first collaboration network and the second collaboration network exceeds a threshold value; and

send a notification of the action associated with the first media archive to users of the second collaboration network of users.

28. The computer program product of claim 27, wherein the request is a first request, and the universal media aggregator module is further configured to:

receive a second request for interaction with the second media archive;

responsive to the second request for interaction, perform an action associated with the second media archive; and

send a notification of the action associated with the second media archive to users of the first collaboration network of users.

29. The computer program product of claim 27, wherein identifying the second collaboration comprises determining that the information of the first media archive matches information of the second media archive.