Systems and methods for displaying text recommendations during collaborative note taking

A method for collaboratively sharing data generated by a plurality of participants in a collaborative data-sharing event, the collaborative data-sharing event utilizing user devices being hand-held devices used by the participants and a collaborative note management system communicating with the user devices, the method at the collaborative note management system comprising:

• in real-time receiving data entered during the collaborative data-sharing event by each of the plurality of participants to their respective user devices;
• automatically filtering the data entered by at least one of the plurality of participants as the data is being received at the collaborative note management system based on predetermined filtering parameters applicable to the at least one of the plurality of participants to generate filtered data for that participant to be shared with each of the other ones of the plurality of participants;
• identifying live words in the data in real-time, the live words being key active words of the data input into the user devices by the users during a note taking session;
• ranking the live words based on a frequency of use and by using a statistical model;
• and
• providing the live words to the user devices of the participants during the note taking session,
• wherein the data-sharing event is managed by the collaborative note management system providing supervisory functions, and
• wherein the supervisory functions of the collaborative note management system include controlling interactions which is based on a sharing level and shared with options selected by the user of the handheld device.

A system for data-sharing between participants in a collaborative data-sharing event, the system comprising:

• a plurality of hand-held devices being used by the participants;
• a distributed network for providing communication between the hand-held devices;
• and
• a collaborative note management system in communication with the distributed network between the participants, the collaborative note management system:
• ranking live words being shared between the participants in the collaborative data-sharing event based on a frequency of use by the participants in real-time and by using a statistical model,
• the live word being key active words, the collaborative note management system filtering the live words entered in each of the hand-held devices;
• and
• providing the live words to others of the hand-held devices in real-time during the collaborative data-sharing event,
• wherein the data-sharing event is managed by the collaborative note management system providing supervisory functions, and
• wherein the supervisory functions of the collaborative note management system include controlling interactions which is based on a sharing level and shared with options selected by the user of the handheld device.

A method for collaborative data-sharing of data generated by a plurality of hand-held devices during a data-sharing event, the data-sharing event being managed by a collaborative note management system providing supervisory functions, the method at the hand-held devices comprising:

• initiating a note-taking session at each of the hand-held devices;
• receiving input from a participant using one of the hand-held devices indicating a level of sharing between the hand-held device of the participant and others of the hand-held devices being used by other participants;
• receiving from the participants a text input to one or more of the hand-held devices;
• identifying live words in the texts in real-time, the live words being key active words in the texts;
• ranking the live words using a statistical model based on a frequency of use;
• providing the texts to the collaborative note management system;
• and
• receiving the supervisory functions at each of the hand-held devices from the collaborative note management system,
• wherein the method is conducted during the data-sharing event in real-time between the participants, and
• wherein the supervisory functions of the collaborative note management system include controlling interactions which is based on a sharing level and shared with options selected by the user of the handheld device.