EVENT TRIGGERED NOTIFICATIONS FOR COLLABORATIVE PROCESSES

• US 20170257404A1
• Filed: 05/23/2017
• Published: 09/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Barber-Mingo, Cynthia E., Denne, Arno, Harpur, Liam S., Kennedy, John, Prendergast, Paula
• Granted Patent: US 10,015,211 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference

Abstract

Notifying a user of a collaborative process that an event of interest has occurred, includes providing a graphical user interface that graphically interacts with a user to identify electronically generated collaborative content of a corresponding computer-executed collaborative process that is to be tracked, wherein the user defines an originator of the generated collaborative content; designating at least one event that triggers a notification to the originator of the collaborative content; communicating with a collaborative process server computer to identify at least one event associated with the collaborative process to monitor; receiving an indication that at least one designated event has occurred; and modifying a visual display of the shared collaborative content when a designated event associated with the shared collaborative content is detected.

Claims

1. A computer program product to notify a user of a collaborative process that an event of interest has occurred, comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code configured to implement a graphical user interface that, when executed on a processing device, graphically interacts with a user to identify electronically generated collaborative content of a corresponding computer-executed collaborative process that is to be tracked, wherein the user defines an originator of the generated collaborative content;

computer readable program code configured to implement a portion of the graphical user interface that graphically interacts with the originator of the collaborative content to designate at least one event that triggers a notification to the originator of the collaborative content;

computer readable program code configured to implement a portion of the graphical user interface that communicates with a collaborative process server computer coupled to a network environment to identify the collaborative process to be tracked and at least one event associated with the collaborative process to monitor;

computer readable program code configured to share the collaborative content with at least one recipient;

computer readable program code configured to receive by the graphical user interface, an indication from the collaborative process server computer that at least one designated event has occurred other than a communication from any recipient back to the originator; and

computer readable program code configured to transform the graphical user interface to modify a visual display of the shared collaborative content when a designated event associated with the shared collaborative content is detected so as to visually depict a notification of the occurrence of the at least one designated event to the originator.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer readable program code configured to implement a graphical user interface comprises computer readable program code configured to implement a graphical user interface that, when executed on a processing device, graphically interacts with a user to identify electronically generated collaborative content of a corresponding computer-executed collaborative process that is to be tracked, the computer-executed collaborative process integrated with the graphical user interface.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer readable program code configured to receive by the graphical user interface, an indication from the collaborative process server computer that at least one designated event has occurred comprises computer readable program code configured to receive by the graphical user interface, an indication from the collaborative process server computer that at least one designated event has occurred that is associated with a recipient taking an action in a first collaborative process application that is different than the corresponding computer-executed collaborative process that is to be tracked.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface graphically interacts with the originator of the collaborative content to designate at least one of:

at least one propagation rule for propagating the notification of the occurrence of the at least one designated event to the originator; and

at least one transformation rule for displaying on a computer processing device associated with the originator the visual depiction of the notification.

5. A computer-implemented method to notify a user of a collaborative process that an event of interest has occurred, comprising:

providing, by the computer, a graphical user interface that graphically interacts with a user to identify electronically generated collaborative content of a corresponding computer-executed collaborative process that is to be tracked, wherein the user defines an originator of the generated collaborative content;

implementing, by the computer, a portion of the graphical user interface that graphically interacts with the originator of the collaborative content to designate at least one event that triggers a notification to the originator of the collaborative content;

implementing, by the computer, a portion of the graphical user interface that communicates with a collaborative process server computer coupled to a network environment to identify the collaborative process to be tracked and at least one event associated with the collaborative process to monitor;

sharing, by the computer, the collaborative content with at least one recipient;

receiving, by the graphical user interface, an indication from the collaborative process server computer that at least one designated event has occurred other than a communication from any recipient back to the originator; and

transforming, by the computer, the graphical user interface to modify a visual display of the shared collaborative content when a designated event associated with the shared collaborative content is detected so as to visually depict a notification of the occurrence of the at least one designated event to the originator.

6. The method of claim 5, comprising:

integrating the computer-executed collaborative process with the graphical user interface.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the indication comprises data related to the at least one recipient taking an action in a first collaborative process application that is different than the corresponding computer-executed collaborative process that is to be tracked.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the graphical user interface graphically interacts with the originator of the collaborative content to designate at least one of:

at least one propagation rule for propagating the notification of the occurrence of the at least one designated event to the originator; and

at least one transformation rule for displaying on the computer the visual depiction of the notification.