System for assisting collaborative activity

US8055712B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• RICOH COMPANY, LTD. · JP

Inventors

• Masaaki Kagawa · Tokyo, JP
• Laszlo Kovacs · Whitehouse Station, US
• Andras Micsik · Budapest, HU
• Balazs E Pataki · Budapest, HU

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 9, 2009
• Grant date: Nov 8, 2011
• Expiry date: Mar 20, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system for assisting a collaborative activity includes a plurality of work interfaces, a role management unit, a workflow management unit, a collaborative activity registration unit, and an activity context management unit situated between the plurality of work interfaces and the collaborative activity registration unit to receive entered information from one of the work interfaces, to associate shared information contained in the entered information with user information provided by the role management unit and an activity content provided by the workflow management unit to create collaborative activity information, and to cause the collaborative activity registration unit to register the collaborative activity information.