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Providing auto-sorting of collaborative partners or components based on frequency of communication and/or access in a collaboration system user interface

US8255811B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 20, 2006
Grant dateAug 28, 2012
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Expiry dateOct 21, 2028

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M1/7243
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system for auto-sorting of lists based on most frequent component access or partner collaboration. The elements in the lists may represent collaboration partners (e.g. instant messaging contacts), and/or collaboration components such as Web addresses, events, collaborative documents, activity objects, and/or desktop applications. The system monitors component accesses and/or partner collaborations over a configurable time period to determine the frequency of collaborations with specific collaboration partners, and/or the frequency of accesses to collaboration components. The disclosed system then determines a set of collaboration partners and/or components that are most frequently collaborated with and/or accessed, and moves the list elements representing those collaboration partners and/or components into a top-located sub-list within a list of elements representing a larger number of collaboration partners and/or components in a user interface provided to a local user. The size of the top-located sub-list is user configurable, and the user may further indicate that certain collaboration partners and/or components are to be added to the sub-list, removed from the sub-list, alway…

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