ACTIVITY STREAM BASED COLLABORATION

• US 20180198697A1
• Filed: 03/06/2018
• Published: 07/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Open Text Corporation
• Original Assignee: Open Text Corporation
• Inventors: van Rotterdam, Jeroen Mattijs, Frankel, Gary
• Granted Patent: US 10,447,568 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0888 Throughput
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

An activity stream based interaction model is disclosed. To cause a desired application level action to be performed at a remote system, such as automatically retrieving and displaying a document in a viewer or other portion of a user interface at the remote system, a text-based tag, such as a hash tag, is inserted into an activity stream. The activity stream is sent to the remote system, which is configured to respond to the text-based tag by performing, at least in part automatically, the corresponding application level action.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a communication interface;

a processor coupled to the communication interface and configured to;

monitor an activity stream of messages by users participating in an activity stream-facilitated collaboration;

display text-based messages from the activity stream on a user interface;

detect, in the activity stream, a text-based control tag received from a remote system;

map the text-based control tag to an application-level action;

determine a current context for the application-level action;

automatically perform the application-level action based on the current context; and

a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide instructions to the processor.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the application-level action includes retrieving a stored object from a repository and displaying the stored object in the user interface.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the text-based control tag identifies the stored object to be retrieved and displayed.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the memory stores a lookup table of application-level actions corresponding to text-based control tags and mapping the text-based control tag to the application-level action comprises accessing the lookup table.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the application-level action is associated with at least a portion of a user interface.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the text-based control tag comprises one of a plurality of pre-defined text-based tags, each of which is associated with a corresponding application-level action.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the application-level action comprises an action to cause a search to be performed in a manner indicated by text-based control tag and return and display of associated search results in the user interface.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the activity stream is associated with a collaboration between a local user and second user at the remote system.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to receive the activity stream on a channel subscribed to by the processor.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to implement a tag recognizer configured to broadcast an event on an event bus that notifies other elements that the text-based control tag has been detected.

11. A computer program product embodied in a tangible, non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising instructions for:

monitoring an activity stream of messages by users participating in an activity stream-facilitated collaboration;

displaying text-based messages from the activity stream on a user interface;

detecting, in the activity stream, a text-based control tag received from a remote system;

mapping the text-based control tag to an application-level action;

determining a current context for the application-level action; and

automatically performing the application-level action based on the current context.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the application-level action includes retrieving a stored object from a repository and displaying the stored object in the user interface.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the text-based control tag identifies the stored object to be retrieved and displayed.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer readable medium comprises instructions for accessing a lookup table of application-level actions corresponding to text-based control tags to map the text-based control tag to the application-level action.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the application-level action is associated with at least a portion of a user interface.

16. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the text-based control tag comprises one of a plurality of pre-defined text-based tags, each of which is associated with a corresponding application-level action.

17. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the application-level action comprises an action to cause a search to be performed in a manner indicated by text-based control tag.

18. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the activity stream is associated with a collaboration between a local user and second user at the remote system.

19. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising instructions to receive the activity stream from the remote system on a subscribed to channel.

20. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer readable medium further comprises instructions to cause a tag recognizer to broadcast an event on an event bus that notifies other elements that the text-based control tag has been detected.