Controlling generation of change notifications in a collaborative authoring environment

• US 9,910,837 B2
• Filed: 08/27/2014
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kumarasamy Mani, Senthil Kumar, Padhye, Rohan Raju, Sinha, Vibha Singhal
• Primary Examiner(s): Dailey, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US14/469,720
• Publication Number:
  US 20160063840A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,287 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/164 File meta data generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/103 Workflow collaboration or project management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

Methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for controlling generation of change notifications to the one or more users in a collaborative authoring environment.

An automated mechanism is provided to detect the change performed in the artifact. The one or more users who performed changes in the past with the changed artifact are identified. One or more pre-defined parameters, such as contribution, ownership, recency, and longevity, may be used to compute relevancy of the changes made in the changed artifact to determine the qualifying one or more users to be notified. Notifications are generated and delivered to the one or more qualifying other users assessed on the one or more pre-defined parameters.

Claims

1. A method for controlling generation of change notifications, comprising:

detecting a change performed by a user in an artifact of a collaborative authoring environment;

identifying one or more other users associated with performing one or more past changes in the artifact prior to the detected change;

determining, based on pre-defined parameters, the identified one or more other users qualifying to receive a notification of the detected change, wherein the pre-defined parameters comprise;

a quantum of past changes, prior to the detected change, performed by each of the other users in the artifact;

time elapsed since the last change performed by each of the other users in the artifact prior to the detected change;

time since each of the other users has been a member of the artifact; and

a quantum of pending work items each of the other users is scheduled to perform in the artifact; and

generating and delivering a notification of the detected change to the qualifying one or more other users.

2. The method of claim 1, further including:

computing, for each of the other users, a value corresponding to each of the pre-defined parameters and assigning a weightage thereto;

computing a qualifying score for each of the other users based on a pre-defined mathematical function of the computed values and the corresponding weightages of each of the pre-defined parameters; and

determining whether each of the other users is a qualifying other user based on the qualification score of each other user satisfying a threshold value.

3. The method of claim 1, further including:

computing, for each of the other users, a value corresponding to each of the pre-defined parameters;

computing a qualifying score for each of the other users based on a pre-defined mathematical function of the computed values of each of the pre-defined parameters; and

determining whether each of the other users is a qualifying other user based on the qualification score of each other user satisfying a threshold value.

4. The method of claim 1 further including:

identifying one or more owners of the artifact by determining, based on one or more first pre-defined parameters, the one or more owners qualifying to receive a notification of the detected change; and

generating and delivering the notification of the detected change to the one or more qualifying owners.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the at least one of the one or more first pre-defined parameters include:

a quantum of portion owned in the changed artifact by each of the one or more owners; and

a preference of the one or more owners of the artifact to receive the notification of the detected change.

6. A computer program product for controlling generation of change notifications, comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium including a computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer program product comprising at least one component operable to;

detect a change performed by a user in an artifact of a collaborative authoring environment;

identify one or more other users associated with performing one or more past changes in the artifact prior to the detected change;

determine, based on pre-defined parameters, the identified one or more other users qualifying to receive a notification of the detected change, wherein the pre-defined parameters comprise;

a quantum of past changes, prior to the detected change, performed by each of the other users in the artifact;

time elapsed since the last change performed by each of the other users in the artifact prior to the detected change;

time since each of the other users has been a member of the artifact; and

a quantum of pending work items each of the other users is scheduled to perform in the artifact; and

generate and deliver the notification of the detected change to the qualifying one or more other users.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein at least one component of the computer program product is operable to:

compute, for each of the other users, a value corresponding to each of the pre-defined parameters and assigning a weightage thereto;

compute a qualifying score for each of the other users based on a pre-defined mathematical function of the computed values and the corresponding weightages of each of the pre-defined parameters; and

determine whether each of the other users is a qualifying other user based on the qualification score of each other user satisfying a threshold value.

8. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein at least one component of the computer program product is operable to:

compute, for each of the other users, a value corresponding to each of the pre-defined parameters;

compute a qualifying score for each of the other users based on a pre-defined mathematical function of the computed values of each of the pre-defined parameters; and

determine whether each of the other users is a qualifying other user based on the qualification score of each other user satisfying a threshold value.

9. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein at least one component of the computer program product is operable to:

identify one or more owners of the artifact by determining, based on one or more first pre-defined parameters, the one or more owners qualifying to receive a notification of the detected change; and

generate and deliver the notification of the detected change to the one or more qualifying owners.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein at least one component of the computer program product is operable to determine the one or more qualifying owners using at least one of the following one or more first pre-defined parameters:

a quantum of portion owned in the changed artifact by each of the one or more owners; and

a preference of the one or more owners of the artifact to receive the notification of the detected change.

11. A system comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor operably coupled to the memory and configured to;

detect a change performed by a user in an artifact of a collaborative authoring environment;

identify one or more other users associated with performing one or more past changes in the artifact prior to the detected change;

determine, based on pre-defined parameters, the identified one or more other users qualifying to receive a notification of the detected change, wherein the pre-defined parameters comprise;

a quantum of past changes, prior to the detected change, performed by each of the other users in the artifact;

time elapsed since the last change performed by each of the other users in the artifact prior to the detected change;

time since each of the other users has been a member of the artifact; and

a quantum of pending work items each of the other users is scheduled to perform in the artifact; and

generate the notification of the detected change to the one or more qualifying other users.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

compute, for each of the other users, a value corresponding to each of the pre-defined parameters;

compute a qualifying score for each of the other users based on a pre-defined mathematical function of the computed values of each of the pre-defined parameters; and

determine whether each of the other users is a qualifying other user based on the qualification score of each other user satisfying a threshold value.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

compute, for each of the other users, a value corresponding to each of the pre-defined parameters and assigning a weightage thereto;

compute a qualifying score for each of the other users based on a pre-defined mathematical function of the computed values and the corresponding weightages of each of the pre-defined parameters; and

determine whether each of the other users is a qualifying other user based on the qualification score of each other user satisfying a threshold value.