Dynamic collaborative techniques
AssigneeNovell, Inc.
InventorsHaripriya Srinivasaraghavan, Scott Alan Isaacson
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Abstract
Techniques for dynamic collaboration are provided. A main collaboration session having multiple interacting parties proceeds in a sequential and linear fashion. An element of the main collaboration session, where the element is not a last or most recent element of the main collaboration session, is acted upon and a sub communication session is initiated. The main collaboration session and the sub communication session proceed independent of one another but remained linked and can be later re-integrated with one another.
Claims25
A processor-implemented method residing in a machine-readable storage medium and to execute on a processor, the method, comprising:
- maintaining, by the processor, a communication session occurring in a time-based and sequential order;
- identifying, by the processor, a selection of an element within the communication session, the selected element occurring before a most recent element for the communication session provided in the sequential order;
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- generating, by the processor, a sub communication session that begins with the selected element and is maintained independent of the communication session, the sub communication session linked back to the communication session.
A processor-implemented method residing in a machine-readable storage medium and to execute on a processor, the method, comprising:
- managing, via the processor, an online collaboration meeting between multiple online participants over the Internet, the online collaboration meeting visually depicts interactive information to the multiple online participants on display devices of each of the multiple online participants;
- receiving, via the processor, a selection for a portion of the interactive information from a particular participant;
- processing, via the processor, a delegation operation for the portion from the particular participant, the delegation operation when processed spawns a sub session from a main session assigned to the online collaboration meeting;
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- coordinating, via the processor, the main session and the sub session.
A machine-implemented system, comprising:
- a resource residing in a computer-readable storage medium and accessed by one or more processors on the computer-readable storage medium;
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- a collaboration session manager implemented in a computer-readable storage medium and executed by the one or more processors;
- wherein the resource is to be selected during a collaboration session by a participant, the collaboration session manager, in response to an action taken by the participant on the selected resource during a main communication session, starts a sub session independent of but still linked to the main communication session, and wherein the main communication session and sub session are collaboration sessions having the participant and multiple other participants interacting via the one or more processors over a network.
A machine-implemented system, comprising
- a collaboration session manager implemented in a computer-readable storage medium and to execute on one or more processors of a network;
- wherein the collaboration session manager is to fork off one or more sub communication sessions from a main communication session in a non-linear and non-sequential manner and the collaboration session manager coordinates the main communication session and the one or more sub communication sessions and permits them to proceed independent of one another until re-integrated with one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.