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Automatically determining the awareness settings among people in distributed working environment

  • US 7,028,074 B2
  • Filed: 07/03/2001
  • Issued: 04/11/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for automatically determining awareness settings among people in a distributed working environment comprising the steps of:

  • receiving real-time data produced by an event; and

    automatically adjusting a distance according to a degree of clarity, desired by individual users, of a corresponding signal received from another party and a need of a collaborative project to have some shared information about individual user activities using an elastic spring energy model, wherein a matrix and vector look up model is used to determine the distances among distributed users, the values of the matrix and the vector encoding preferences of a user and preference requirements of another user.

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