Systems and methods to facilitate user engagement with units of work assigned within a collaboration environment

US11449836B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Asana, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Anna Marie Clifton · San Francisco, US
• Micah Hanan Fenner · San Francisco, US
• Abigail Lorean Kelly · San Francisco, US
• Cvetomir I. Cankov · Oakland, US
• Sean Sun · San Francisco, US
• Sarah Lee Shader · San Francisco, US
• John Wesley Graham · San Francisco, US
• Eric Seth Pelz · San Francisco, US
• Lili Jiang Rachowin · San Francisco, US
• Adam Butler · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 21, 2020
• Grant date: Sep 20, 2022
• Expiry date: Jul 21, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/105
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and methods for facilitating user engagement with units of work assigned within a collaboration environment are presented herein. Implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the environment state information the work unit records including values of an approval state parameter; effectuate presentation of a user interface of the collaboration environment, the user interface displaying individual work unit pages for individual units of work that include a set of user interface elements available for selection by the users, individual user interface elements in the set corresponding to different ones of the values of the approval state parameter; obtain user input information conveying user input characterizing the selection of the individual user interface elements; update the work unit records based on the user input information; and/or other perform other operations.