Patent Issued for Systems and methods for managing data in remote huddle sessions (USPTO 11132643): Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
2021 OCT 19 (NewsRx) -- By a
The patent’s inventors are Casale, Robert (
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From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents obtained the following quote: “Conventionally, team members working on one or more projects within a company may get together in a huddle on a daily basis to share information, discuss topics, evaluate performance, identify issues, and/or solve problems collaboratively. Since the introduction of the huddle, whiteboards have acted as the traditional huddle tool for storing all information collected during huddle time. However, one drawback of the current huddle methodology is that data related to the huddle is not easy to upload, download, and distribute. In addition, searching for data available in other huddles may be difficult and not effective.
“Alternatives to overcome the challenge of gathering team members who may be at different locations for huddle, may include the use of one or more collaboration tools such as conference phone calls, video conferences, internet relay chat (IRC), and instant messaging, among others. These collaboration tools may enable data attachment and links sharing. However, uploading data directly to a specific user may reduce bandwidth and may produce a huddle without a correct data access structure. Since only a few members may possess the data and the others may do not know about such data, huddle may be ineffective and goals achievement procedure may be not organized.
“Conventional approaches to meetings amongst remote users fail address all of the deficiencies of the conventional collaboration tools. A web meeting may allow a user to share a computer desktop with another user in a remote location. But the user must select which application should be presented on the computer desktop, so there is no ability to present a page that has information from multiple sub-applications that are dynamically updated. Further, the user cannot include annotations overlaid on the page that are simultaneously presented to the remote user and also stored with that particular page such that the particular page can be retrieved at a later date along with those annotations.
“Moreover, conventional extranets are capable of sharing information from a common source, but these extranets do not offer real-time collaboration through real-time updates and simultaneous displays to other users. Further, these conventional extranets do not utilize sub-applications that dynamically display data associated with users simultaneously accessing the extranet. Conventional computer solutions do not offer the desired collaboration, real-time updating, dynamic presentation of data, and linking of additional content to the displayed data.
“For the aforementioned reasons, there is a need for systems and methods which may enable data managing in huddle collaboration between team members of a given project in order to overcome these and other drawbacks of current methodologies for huddles.”
Supplementing the background information on this patent, NewsRx reporters also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “The systems and methods described herein address the deficiencies described above, and may offer other benefits as well. The present disclosure describes systems and methods for managing data in remote huddle collaboration. The system may enable participants to fully engage in huddles regardless of their location. The system may collect and store information during huddle time, replacing traditional whiteboards, where this information may be available to the users in the form of one or more sub-applications.
“In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving, by a computer, a selection of a huddle record from a user device, the huddle record stored in a database storing one or more huddle records comprising data describing a huddle board display page and user access rights to the data of the huddle record; upon authenticating the user device based upon the user access rights and a set of user credentials: receiving, by the computer, a new data from the user device through a network connection coupling the computer with the user device; receiving, by the computer, from the user device a plurality of selections indicating one or more characteristics of the new data; generating, by the computer, a plurality of tags for the new data based upon the selection of the huddle record and the plurality of selections received from the user device, wherein a first tag is metadata that associates the new data with the huddle record, and wherein each respective tag of the plurality of tags is metadata indicating a respective characteristic of the new data; storing, by the computer, the new data in the database, wherein the new data is associated with one or more huddle records in accordance with one or more tags associating the new data with the one or more huddle records; upon the computer receiving, from the user device, a query for data related to a huddle board, wherein the query contains one or more parameters identifying data related to the huddle board including a keyword and one or more characteristics: identifying, by the computer, in a second database a machine-readable computer file containing data matching the keyword parameter of the query; identifying, by the computer, in the second database a machine-readable computer file having a metadata tag indicating the computer file matches the one or more characteristics; identifying, by the computer, each huddle record containing data associated with the tag indicating the data has a characteristic matching the keyword parameter of the query; identifying, by the computer, each based upon the first tag the data in the record of the huddle board in the database of huddle records; and serving, by the computer, to the user device, a composite huddle board display page with a set of query results based on the one or more parameters of the query, the set of query results displaying the one or more huddle records having data related to the huddle board and the one or more machine-readable computer files having data related to the huddle board.
“Systems and methods for data managing in remote huddle collaboration may enable each project team member to remotely access data related to the huddle. Numerous other aspects, features and benefits of the present disclosure may be made apparent from the following detailed description taken together with the drawing figures.”
The claims supplied by the inventors are:
“1. A server-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a server from a first user device, a selection of a collaboration interface, the collaboration interface comprising a display page, a plurality of sub-applications, and first user access rights; receiving, by the server, new data from the first user device, wherein the new data comprises one or more characteristics; generating, by the server, one or more tags for the new data based upon the selection of the collaboration interface, wherein each tag of the one or more tags comprises metadata indicating a respective characteristic of the new data; updating, by the server, a subset of the plurality of sub-applications on the display page associated with the collaboration interface with content comprising the new data to generate an updated display page; and simultaneously presenting, by the server, on a second user device located remotely from the first user device, a synchronized version of the updated display page.
“2. The server-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising: authenticating, by the server, the first user based upon first user access rights and a set of first user credentials of the first user.
“3. The server-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising: storing, by the server, one or more collaboration interfaces in a database, wherein the one or more collaboration interfaces comprise information describing user access rights to each of the one or more collaboration interfaces.
“4. The server-implemented method of claim 1, wherein a first tag is a first metadata that associates the new data with the collaboration interfaces.
“5. The server-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the display page comprises content executed by one sub-application of the plurality of sub-applications.
“6. The server-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the display page comprises content executed by more than one sub-application.
“7. The server-implemented method of claim 1, wherein a sub-application of the plurality of sub-applications corresponds to software enabling remote collaboration.
“8. The server-implemented method of claim 1, wherein a sub-application of the plurality of sub-applications corresponds to an image-based sub-application, wherein the image-based sub-application comprises a library of images for selection.
“9. The server-implemented method of claim 1, wherein a sub-application of the plurality of sub-applications corresponds to a text-based sub-application, wherein the text-based sub-application comprises a text column for users to publish text for sharing.
“10. A system comprising: a first user device; a second user device; and a server containing instructions configured to be executed by a processor, the instructions configured to: receive, from the first user device, a selection of a collaboration interface, the collaboration interface comprising a display page, a plurality of sub-applications, and first user access rights; receive new data from the first user device, wherein the new data comprises one or more characteristics; generate one or more tags for the new data based upon the selection of the collaboration interface, wherein each tag of the one or more tags comprises metadata indicating a respective characteristic of the new data; update a subset of the plurality of sub-applications on the display page associated with the collaboration interface with content comprising the new data to generate an updated display page; and simultaneously present on the second user device located remotely from the first user device a synchronized version of the updated display page.
“11. The system of claim 10, wherein the server is configured to: authenticate the first user based upon first user access rights and a set of first user credentials of the first user.
“12. The system of claim 10, wherein the server is configured to: store one or more collaboration interfaces in a database, wherein the one or collaboration interfaces comprise information describing user access rights to each of the one or more collaboration interfaces.
“13. The system of claim 10, wherein the display page comprises content executed by one sub-application of the plurality of sub-applications.
“14. The system of claim 10, wherein the display page comprises content executed by more than one sub-application.
“15. The system of claim 10, wherein a sub-application of the plurality of sub-applications corresponds to software enabling remote collaboration.
“16. The system of claim 10, wherein a sub-application of the plurality of sub-applications corresponds to an image-based sub-application, wherein the image-based sub-application comprises a library of images for selection.
“17. The system of claim 10, wherein a sub-application of the plurality of sub-applications corresponds to a text-based sub-application, wherein the text-based sub-application comprises a text column for users to publish text for sharing.”
For the URL and additional information on this patent, see: Casale, Robert. Systems and methods for managing data in remote huddle sessions.
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