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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2001
Yiming YE, White Plains, NY (US);
Stephen J. Boies, Mahopac, NY (US);
Paul Y. Huang, Katonah, NY (US);
John K. Tsotsos, Richmond Hill, CA;
Yiming Ye, White Plains, NY (US);
Stephen J. Boies, Mahopac, NY (US);
Paul Y. Huang, Katonah, NY (US);
John K. Tsotsos, Richmond Hill, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Communication channels among users in a collaborative computing system are automatically adjusted based on users' current states detected by various sensing devices. The collaboration system that includes an awareness system for evaluating, monitoring, and controlling, in real-time, the collaboration environment by having events and occurrences with properties. The awareness monitoring system includes (1) receiving and analyzing real time data from input sensors and (2) an elastic spring energy model for automatically adjusting a distance according to a level of privacy desired by individual users, the requirement of the organization, and a need of the collaborative project to have some shared information about individual user activities. When a spring energy model is difficult to obtain, a matrix looks up model is used to automatically adjust a distance according to a level of privacy desired by individual users, the requirement of the organization, and the need of the collaborative project.