Relevancy Scoring for Collaborative Social Productivity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional remote desktop computing is limited by its inability to support disparate operating systems and embedded access to cloud-based storage, and it lacks features for collaborative work among users, leading to fragmentation in communication, software, and hardware, which hampers social productivity.

Innovation Solution

The system provides collaborative features by capturing and maintaining a history of comments, changes, and events for data content objects, creating an activity stream, and allowing users to access contextual information, enabling teams to work together seamlessly across different platforms and storage systems.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional remote desktop computing is used, then access to terminal servers is provided, but support for disparate operating systems and cloud-based storage is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesupport for disparate operating systems and cloud-based storageVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal terminal server architecture that can provide access to multiple operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux) and cloud storage services through a single platform. The system uses virtualization to create virtual desktops that can run different OS instances, and integrates cloud storage APIs to provide unified access to various cloud providers, eliminating the need for separate terminal servers for each OS or storage service.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary layer between clients and terminal servers that handles protocol translation and compatibility. This intermediary component enables clients to access different operating systems and cloud storage services without requiring native support on each client device, as the intermediary mediates the communication and data transfer between disparate systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If traditional remote desktop computing is used, then remote access is provided, but collaborative work features are lacking

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollaborative work capabilityVSAvoidsystem feature complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges remote desktop access with collaborative work features into a unified system. The terminal server platform integrates file sharing, messaging, and real-time document editing capabilities directly into the remote desktop environment, allowing users to collaborate on documents while accessing their virtual desktops, rather than requiring separate collaboration tools.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms that track user actions, document changes, and communication events across the collaborative platform. This feedback system enables real-time notifications, version control, and change tracking, allowing team members to see who is editing what, what changes have been made, and to receive alerts about important events, thereby enhancing collaborative productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If traditional remote desktop computing is used, then individual user access is provided, but social productivity and team collaboration are hampered

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesocial productivityVSAvoidfragmentation of communication and context
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal collaboration platform that works across all terminal server instances and client devices. The system provides unified access to team documents, communication channels, and project spaces regardless of which operating system or cloud storage service is being used, ensuring that social productivity features are consistently available to all team members across diverse technical environments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a nested architecture where collaboration features are embedded within the terminal server environment. Communication tools, document management, and team workspaces are nested inside the virtual desktop experience, allowing users to access collaborative features directly within their remote desktop sessions without switching between separate applications or platforms, thereby preventing information fragmentation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Data Source

PatentUS9607278B2Systems and methods for supporting social productivity using relevancy scoring
Publication Date: 2017.03.28 CLOUDON
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AI summary

A system comprises a workspace associated with content objects and users, the workspace enabling actors to perform operations on the objects; a data capture module configured to capture scoring factors associated with operations performed, the scoring factors including a number of times a target user has performed operations on the objects, the target user being possibly interested in receiving a notification about the operations performed; a relevance scoring module configured to evaluate the scoring factors associated with the operations performed to generate a relevance score associated with the target user and associated with the operations performed; and a notification module configured to provide a notification to the target user upon satisfaction of a notification threshold condition, satisfaction of the notification threshold condition based on identification of particular operations performed that satisfy relevance threshold conditions, satisfaction of the relevance threshold conditions based on the relevance score associated with the operations performed.