Alert log activity thread integration

• US 7,822,848 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2006
• Issued: 10/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Sen, Shilad W., Wu, Michael C., Muller, Michael, Brownholtz, Elizabeth A., Moore, Martin T., Geyer, Werner
• Primary Examiner(s): Hu; Jinsong
• Application Number:
  US11/617,094
• Publication Number:
  US 20080157960A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,398 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709/202, 709/223, 709/224, 709/225, 715/710
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to alert management in an activity-centric collaborative computing environment and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for activity thread integration of an alert log. In one embodiment of the invention, an alert log activity thread integration method can be provided. The method can include logging a reference to an alert for an activity in an activity thread, and, in response to the selection of the alert from within the activity thread, displaying the content of the alert. For instance, logging a reference to an alert for an activity in an activity thread can include creating a branch of the activity thread for inserting all alerts pertaining to the activity and inserting the reference to the alert in the created branch.

Claims

1. An alert log activity thread integration method comprising:

logging a reference to an alert for an activity in an activity thread provided by an activity-centric collaboration tool executing in memory by at least one processor of a host computing platform, the logging comprising creating a branch of the activity thread for inserting all alerts pertaining to the activity, inserting the reference to the alert in the created branch, and displaying at least a portion of the created branch in the activity thread; and

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responsive to the selection of the alert from within the activity thread, displaying the content of the alert.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the content of the alert, comprises displaying in addition to the content of the alert, an indication of when the alert previously had been issued.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the content of the alert, comprises displaying in addition to the content of the alert, a listing of members associated with the activity to which the alert previously had been issued.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein displaying the content of the alert further comprises additionally displaying an indication of respective actions taken by the members in response to having received the alert.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein displaying the content of the alert further comprises additionally displaying an indication of respective alert ratings provided by the members in response to having received the alert.

6. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable storage medium embodying computer usable program code for alert log activity thread integration, the computer program product comprising:

computer usable program code for logging a reference to an alert for an activity in an activity thread, the logging comprising creating a branch of the activity thread for inserting all alerts pertaining to the activity, inserting the reference to the alert in the created branch, and displaying at least a portion of the created branch in the activity thread; and

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computer usable program code for displaying the content of the alert in response to the selection of the alert from within the activity thread.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the computer usable program code for displaying the content of the alert, comprises computer usable program code for displaying in addition to the content of the alert, an indication of when the alert previously had been issued.

8. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the computer usable program code for displaying the content of the alert, comprises computer usable program code for displaying in addition to the content of the alert, a listing of members associated with the activity to which the alert previously had been issued.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer usable program code for displaying the content of the alert further comprises computer usable program code for additionally displaying an indication of respective actions taken by the members in response to having received the alert.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer usable program code for displaying the content of the alert further comprises computer usable program code for additionally displaying an indication of respective alert ratings provided by the members in response to having received the alert.