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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2009
Jonathan Hare, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mathew Spolin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan Hare, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mathew Spolin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Resilient Networks, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for automating organization of multiple processes involving maintaining a uniform record of process threads using at least one server, each process thread comprising a representation of a collaborative process capable of involving a plurality of users, enabling at least one of the plurality of users to carry out a user action while interacting with one of a plurality of different types of application programs, and modifying at least one process thread in the uniform record of process threads in response to the user action carried out by the user. Modifying the at least one process thread may comprise generating the at least one process thread as a new process thread. Alternatively or in addition, modifying the at least one process thread may comprise modifying the at least one process thread as an existing process thread. At least one of the process threads may reflect user actions carried out by more than one of the plurality of users.