Summary-Based Task Monitoring

• US 20130074075A1
• Filed: 09/19/2011
• Published: 03/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Pinhanez, Claudio Santos, Cavalcante, Victor Fernandes, Botelho De Souza, Cleidson Ronald
• Application Number:
  US13/235,640
• Publication Number:
  US 20130074075A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for task monitoring. The method includes receiving at least one task action indication from a first user module, generating a summary of the at least one task action indication, and outputting the summary of the at least one task action indication to a second user module for monitoring.

Claims

1. A method for task monitoring, wherein the method comprises:

receiving at least one task action indication from a first user module;

generating a summary of the at least one task action indication; and

outputting the summary of the at least one task action indication to a second user module for monitoring;

wherein at least one of the steps is carried out by a computer device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising facilitating sending a message from the second user module to the first user module in response to the generated summary of the at least one task action indication.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a task action indication comprises a user command.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a task action indication comprises a user interface interaction.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting the summary of the at least one task action indication to a second user module comprises presenting the generated summary into a user interface window of the second user module.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting the summary of the at least one task action indication to a second user module further comprises outputting a log update alert to the second user module.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the summary includes at least one of text and graphics.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the summary is represented using at least one thumbnail in the second user module.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting the summary of the at least one task action indication to a second user module comprises implementing a user interface orientation in which a view presented to the second user module is a reduced or identical view of the first user module.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first user module comprises a supervisee module and the second user module comprises a supervisor module.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first user module comprises a mentor module and the second user module comprises an apprentice module.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein generating a summary of the at least one task action indication comprises automatically processing a log or a similar type of record of the first user module activities on at least one of a computer, video and audio feed.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising enabling a user to establish when task monitoring takes place.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a system, wherein the system comprises at least one distinct software module, each distinct software module being embodied on a tangible computer-readable recordable storage medium, and wherein the at least one distinct software module comprises a supervisee module, a computational system module, and a supervisor module executing on a hardware processor.

15. An article of manufacture comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer readable instructions tangibly embodied thereon which, when implemented, cause a computer to carry out a plurality of method steps comprising:

receiving at least one task action indication from a first user module;

generating a summary of the at least one task action indication; and

outputting the summary of the at least one task action indication to a second user module for monitoring.

16. The article of manufacture of claim 15, wherein the computer readable instructions which, when implemented, further cause a computer to carry out a method step comprising:

facilitating sending a message from the second user module to the first user module in response to the generated summary of the at least one task action indication.

17. The article of manufacture of claim 15, wherein outputting the summary of the at least one task action indication to a second user module comprises presenting the generated summary into a user interface window of the second user module.

18. The article of manufacture of claim 15, wherein the summary includes at least one of text and graphics.

19. The article of manufacture of claim 15, wherein generating a summary of the at least one task action indication comprises automatically processing a log or a similar type of record of the first user module activities on at least one of a computer, video and audio feed.

20. A system for task monitoring, comprising:

at least one distinct software module, each distinct software module being embodied on a tangible computer-readable medium;

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and operative for;

receiving at least one task action indication from a first user module;

generating a summary of the at least one task action indication; and

outputting the summary of the at least one task action indication to a second user module for monitoring.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the at least one processor coupled to the memory is further operative for:

facilitating sending a message from the second user module to the first user module in response to the generated summary of the at least one task action indication.

22. The system of claim 20, wherein the at least one processor coupled to the memory operative for outputting the summary of the at least one task action indication to a second user module is further operative for presenting the generated summary into a user interface window of the second user module.

23. The system of claim 20, wherein the summary includes at least one of text and graphics.

24. The system of claim 20, wherein the at least one processor coupled to the memory operative for generating a summary of the at least one task action indication is further operative for automatically processing a log or a similar type of record of the first user module activities on at least one of a computer, video and audio feed.