Implicit Team Formation via Activity Thresholds

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Solution Overview

Problem

Creating and managing user teams in computer networks can be time-consuming and inaccurate, especially when team members are not clearly defined, and teams often form and dissolve organically, making it difficult for administrators to maintain up-to-date membership.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of implicit teams, which are automatically created and managed based on user account activity, allowing for dynamic grouping of users with similar interests or themes, without the need for a manual administrator, and providing interfaces for users to view, manage, and collaborate within these teams.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual team creation and management is used, then team access rights can be assigned, but the process becomes time-consuming and difficult when team members are not clearly defined

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveteam creation efficiencyVSAvoidtime for team management

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automatic team formation through self-service mechanisms where user accounts automatically join teams based on their activity and interactions. The team management system monitors user behavior patterns and autonomously creates and updates team memberships without requiring manual administrator intervention, thereby resolving the contradiction between efficient team creation and time consumption.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-identifying potential team members through activity monitoring and analysis before formal team creation is needed. User accounts are tracked and evaluated based on their interactions, content creation, and engagement patterns, allowing the system to have team membership decisions ready in advance, thus reducing the time required for team management.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If teams form organically around projects or topics, then collaboration on specific subjects is enabled, but team membership becomes difficult to audit and manage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveteam formation flexibilityVSAvoidteam management difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements continuous feedback loops by monitoring user activity within teams and automatically adjusting memberships based on observed behavior. Administrators receive feedback about team composition and activity levels, allowing them to audit and manage teams efficiently. The system tracks which users are actively contributing to team projects and uses this feedback to maintain accurate team rosters, resolving the management difficulty while preserving organic formation benefits.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system makes team membership dynamic rather than static, allowing automatic addition and removal of members based on their ongoing activity and relevance to team projects. Team compositions can evolve over time as users join new projects or become less active, with the system automatically adapting memberships to reflect current team needs, thus maintaining ease of operation while supporting flexible organic formation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Measurement precision

If administrators manually audit teams to add or remove members, then team accuracy can be maintained, but the process becomes inaccurate, difficult, and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveteam membership accuracyVSAvoidtime for team auditing

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces the mechanical manual auditing process with an automated computational system that continuously monitors user activity, analyzes interaction patterns, and determines team membership eligibility. This substitution eliminates the time-consuming manual review process while maintaining or improving accuracy through objective, data-driven assessments of user contributions and relevance to team projects.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements continuous monitoring and automatic updates of team memberships rather than periodic manual audits. User activity is tracked in real-time, and team compositions are continuously optimized based on current engagement levels and project requirements. This continuous action ensures accurate team membership information is always available without requiring administrators to invest significant time in periodic reviews.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS11238383B2Systems and methods for creating and managing user teams of user accounts

Publication Date: 2022.02.01 ATLASSIAN PTY LTD

AI summary

Methods and systems for suggesting electronic collaborative user groups to a user account based on user account activity. The method includes identifying one or more event records corresponding to a user account. Each of the one or more event records identifying an interaction between a client device of the user account and a server computing system and corresponding to one or more themes associated with a given team. The method further includes calculating a theme score for the user account based on the retrieved one or more event records. The theme score based at least in part on the number of identified event records. The method also includes determining whether the calculated theme score exceeds a predetermined threshold score, and in response to determining that the calculated theme score exceeds the predetermined threshold score, facilitating connection of the user account and the team associated with the theme.