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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2011
Mark Lucovsky, Montecito, CA (US);
Carl P. Sjogreen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Salar A. Kamangar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Adam Bosworth, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Mark Lucovsky, Montecito, CA (US);
Carl P. Sjogreen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Salar A. Kamangar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Adam Bosworth, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of forming a multi-user online collaboration includes automatically receiving and processing a plurality of communications, including comparing the plurality of communications with collaboration launch criteria. When a received communication meets the collaboration launch criteria, a participant in the communication is invited to generate a multi-user online collaboration. In some embodiments, the method includes identifying a group of communications, comparing the group of communications with the collaboration launch criteria to produce a comparison result, and generating a collaborative metric in accordance with the comparison result.