Andrew Cohen
Architects in Brookline, MA

6507845, Jan 14, 2003

Sep 14, 1999

09/395642

Andrew L. Cohen - Brookline MA
Bob Stachel - Arlington MA
Steve Foley - Quincy MA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1730

707100, 707 1, 707 3, 707 10, 7071041, 707102

The present invention discloses methods for improving awareness of the status of a task, and for improving collaboration among users involved in a task. Methods are provided in which activity data is displayed simultaneously in two separate regions of a screen display. A first region can contain a list of users in association with an activity most recently performed by each user. A second region can contain a list of data objects in association with an activity most recently performed on each of the data objects. Collaboration tools can be accessible through the list of users or the list of data objects.

6377983, Apr 23, 2002

Nov 13, 1998

09/192047

Andrew L. Cohen - Brookline MA
Paul P. Maglio - Santa Cruz CA
Robert C. Barrett - Sunnyvale CA
Mark A. Sheldon - Arlington MA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1516

709217, 709219, 709209, 709223, 707 4, 701 1

The invention disclosed herein relates to cooperative computing environments and information retrieval and management methods and systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods and systems for capturing and generating useful information about a users access and use of data on a computer system, such as in the form of documents stored on remote servers, and making such useful information available to others. Documents on the computer system are accessible through a plurality of different methods, such as by specifying an identifier or locator for the document, activating a hyperlink in another document which points to the document, or navigating to the document through navigational commands in an application program such as a browser. The method involves capturing information regarding each of the accessed documents in the set, the information including the method used to access the document, dividing the set of documents into subsets of documents based at least in part on the methods used to access the documents, labeling each subset of documents with a topic, and making the labels and documents accessed available to other users who wish to browse the same documents.

6356898, Mar 12, 2002

Nov 13, 1998

09/191587

Andrew L. Cohen - Brookline MA
Paul P. Maglio - Santa Cruz CA
Robert C. Barrett - Sunnyvale CA
Mark A. Sheldon - Arlington MA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1730

707 5, 707 6, 707 10, 707513, 707531, 707 2

The invention disclosed herein relates to cooperative computing environments and information retrieval and management methods and systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods and systems for capturing and generating useful information about a users access and use of data on a computer system, such as in the form of documents stored on remote servers, and making such useful information available to others. Documents on the computer system are accessible through a plurality of different methods, such as by specifying an identifier or locator for the document, activating a hyperlink in another document which points to the document, or navigating to the document through navigational commands in an application program such as a browser. The method involves capturing information regarding each of the accessed documents in the set, the information including the method used to access the document, dividing the set of documents into subsets of documents based at least in part on the methods used to access the documents, labeling each subset of documents with a topic, and making the labels and documents accessed available to other users who wish to browse the same documents.

2003016, Sep 4, 2003

Jan 10, 2003

10/340563

Andrew Cohen - Brookline MA, US
Bob Stachel - Arlington MA, US
Steve Foley - Quincy MA, US

G06F017/00

707/10300R

The present invention discloses methods for improving awareness of the status of a task, and for improving collaboration among users involved in a task. Methods are provided in which activity data is displayed simultaneously in two separate regions of a screen display. A first region can contain a list of users in association with an activity most recently performed by each user. A second region can contain a list of data objects in association with an activity most recently performed on each of the data objects. Collaboration tools can be accessible through the list of users or the list of data objects.