Inventors
Tessa A Lau, Jalal U Mahmud, Tara L Matthews, Thomas P Moran, Barton A Smith, Stephen J Whittaker
Publication date
2012/8/2
Patent office
US
Application number
13017564
Description
BACKGROUND
0001. The present invention generally relates to collabo ration tools, and more particularly relates to integrating mes saging with collaboration tools. 0002 People use various dedicated collaboration tools (eg, wikis) to help them organize task materials in single location where all members can view these task materials.
Various collaboration topics (eg, a particular wiki) can be created in those tools to work on a particular aspect of the project. There are many different electronic collaboration tools that support collaborative tasks. Examples of collabo ration tools are wikis (eg, Mediawiki), teamrooms (eg, Lotus Quickr), blogs (eg, Blogspot), calendar meeting schedulers (eg, Lotus Notes or Evite), forums (eg, Ubuntu Forums and GameDev. net), groups (eg, Yahoo Groups), activities (eg, Lotus Activities), communities (eg, Jive SBS), shared files (eg, Google Documents, Microsoft Sharepoint, and Flickr …
Scholar articles
TA Lau, JU Mahmud, TL Matthews, TP Moran… - US Patent App. 13/017,564, 2012
