Centrifugal communication and collaboration method
AssigneeGroupServe, Inc.
InventorsTheodore B. Achacoso, D. Wayne Silby
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Abstract
A method of facilitating communications and collaboration of a group of plural remote participants comprises steps of receiving information over an information communications network from a first group participant; pushing, over the network to at least one other group participant, an access via an access channel; and allowing the other group participant to access at least some of the received information via said access channel in response to selective activation of the access channel by the other group participant.
Claims56
A method of facilitating communications and collaboration of a group of plural participants comprising the steps of:
- receiving information over an information communications network from a first group participant;
- pushing, over said network to at least one other group participant, an access via an access channel;
- and
- allowing said other group participant to access at least some of said received information via said access channel in response to selective activation of said access channel by-said other group participant.
A method of facilitating continued group communications and collaboration over a wireless information communications network comprising:
- depositing, in a database, a message received from a first participant of a group having plural participants;
- pushing at least one universal resource locator and less than all of said received message to a subset of the group selected by said first participant;
- and
- providing access to said deposited message over said wireless information communication network in response to activation of said universal resource locator.
A method of facilitating continued group communications and collaboration over an information communications network comprising:
- posting information from a first participant of a group having plural participants;
- pushing at least one universal resource locator and some, but less than all, of said posted information to at least one other participant of the group over the network but not to said first participant;
- and
- providing World Wide Web access to said posted information over said information communication network in response to activation of said universal resource locator by said other group participant.
A system for facilitating continued group communications and collaboration over an information communications network comprising:
- a database that supplies information received from a group having plural participants;
- a notice generator that pushes at least one universal resource locator to at least some group participants over the network;
- and
- an access channel server that provides access to said supplied information over said information communication network in response to activation of said universal resource locator by group participants.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.