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EVENT TRIGGERED NOTIFICATIONS FOR COLLABORATIVE PROCESSES

  • US 20160026975A1
  • Filed: 08/14/2015
  • Published: 01/28/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of tracking a collaborative process and propagating a notification of an occurrence of an event to an originator comprising:

  • receiving at a collaborative process server computer coupled to a network environment, an indication that a user has initiated, with a first collaborative process application, a computer implemented collaborative process that generates collaborative content, wherein the user defines an originator of the generated collaborative content;

    obtaining by the collaborative process server computer, a designation that events associated with the initiated collaborative process are to be tracked;

    sharing the collaborative content associated with the collaborative process with at least one recipient;

    obtaining by the collaborative process server computer, information identifying the occurrence of at least one computer detectable event associated with the shared collaborative content other than a communication from any recipient back to the originator;

    automatically transforming information associated with the collaborative process in response to at least one detected event associated with the shared collaborative content; and

    propagating a notification to the originator that informs the originator of the detected event, wherein the notification is generated in response to the detected event and is based upon the transformed information;

    wherein;

    sharing the collaborative content associated with the collaborative process with at least one recipient further comprises;

    providing notice to at least one recipient that events are being tracked to send notifications to the originator; and

    providing each recipient that receives the notice with an option to enable sending notifications or disable sending notifications; and

    propagating a notification to the originator further comprises;

    refraining from propagating the notification when the detected event is associated with a recipient that received the notice and that indicated the option to disable sending notifications.

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