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Managing collaborative activity

  • US 8,977,689 B2
  • Filed: 06/05/2014
  • Issued: 03/10/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/07/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A collaboration system, comprising:

  • a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, comprising;

    a collaboration model, comprising;

    model entities that provide access to information related to a collaborative activity, the model entities including a model entity contained in a first hierarchy of a first type and contained in a second hierarchy of a second type;

    the first hierarchy neither containing nor contained in the second hierarchy; and

    configurable permissioning controls established for each of the persons involved in the collaborative activity, andmachine instructions for collaborative activity operations according to the collaboration model; and

    a processor that;

    accesses the collaboration model and the permissioning controls, andexecutes the machine instructions to;

    enable display of a graphical user interface;

    determine a type of access by a person to the model entities by;

    reading the permissioning controls, andcomparing the permissioning controls to an identification of the person entered by the person in the graphical user interface; and

    perform the collaborative activity operations on the model entities to;

    grant access by the person to the model entities according to the determined type of access,view, create, modify, and delete the model entities,make changes to the model entities immediately available to all persons authorized to access the model entities,assign the model entities to locations in the first hierarchy and the second hierarchy,access and modify the information related to the collaborative activity, anddisplay the model entities in the graphical user interface according to the locations in the first hierarchy and the second hierarchy.

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