Collaboration Pane for Consolidating Document Insights
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current techniques for providing users with collaboration insights around documents are complex, tedious, and require navigating through multiple applications and windows, making it difficult for users to stay informed about document collaborations.
Innovation Solution
A system that mines data associated with a file and its collaborators to generate collaboration events, which are then summarized and displayed as a collaboration pane within the file's user interface, allowing users to view insights without leaving the application.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users navigate through multiple applications and windows to access collaboration information, then comprehensive collaboration data can be accessed, but user interface complexity and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines collaboration event data from multiple sources (emails, calendar events, meetings, chat messages) into a single integrated collaboration pane within the document interface. This merging allows users to access comprehensive collaboration information without navigating between multiple applications, directly resolving the contradiction between information completeness and access time.
Solution Approach 2:
The collaboration pane acts as an intermediary component that aggregates and presents collaboration data from various external sources (email clients, calendar applications, meeting tools) within the document interface. This mediator approach provides comprehensive collaboration information while eliminating the need for users to switch between applications.
2Loss of information
If collaboration data from multiple sources is integrated, then comprehensive collaboration insights are provided, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The collaboration pane is designed as a universal component that can display and manage multiple types of collaboration data (emails, calendar events, meetings, chat messages) through a single interface. This multi-functional approach provides comprehensive collaboration insights while maintaining a unified, manageable system architecture rather than requiring separate systems for each data type.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments different types of collaboration data (emails, calendar events, meetings, chat messages) into distinct event categories that are then systematically integrated into the collaboration pane. This segmentation approach manages complexity by organizing diverse data types into manageable categories while still providing comprehensive collaboration information.
3Loss of information
If detailed collaboration events are displayed, then complete collaboration context is provided, but information overload occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and displays only the most relevant collaboration events in the collaboration pane, filtering out unnecessary details. This extraction approach provides sufficient collaboration context to keep users informed while avoiding information overload by selectively presenting only essential collaboration information.
Solution Approach 2:
The collaboration pane implements a balanced approach by displaying a selective subset of collaboration events rather than all possible data. This partial action approach provides enough collaboration context to maintain user awareness while avoiding the negative effects of presenting excessive information.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for providing consumable collaboration insights related to a file in a collaboration environment. In one aspect, data associated with at least one of a file and collaborators of the file is mined. One or more collaboration events related to the file may be determined using the mined data. A summary of the one or more collaboration events related to the file may be generated. The summary of the one or more collaboration events may be sent to a client computing device for displaying a summarized view of the one or more collaboration events as a collaboration pane within the file.