Slideshow: Best Of Social Enterprise Patents
Select Enterprise 2.0 intellectual property filings from Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, as well as a couple of lesser-known social tech vendors.
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Figure from Cisco's patent application "Asynchronous Workflow Participation Within An Immersive Collaboration Environment."
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Figure from Vyew CEO Henry Hon's patent application,"System and method for collaborative web-based multimedia layered platform with recording and selective playback of content."
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Login screen from Patent 7,707,249, "Systems and methods for collaboration," by document-management specialists OpenText.
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Figure showing a user's status and history, from Patent 7,707,249, "Systems and methods for collaboration," by document-management specialists OpenText.
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LivePlaces' "place" interface screen, which is a kind of central status repository showing everything in one's collaborative workspace, from Opentext patent 7,707,249.
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Diagram from SAP's patent 7,676,542, "Establishing a Collaboration Environment," showing a mock up of one user's virtual workspace.
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SAP's patent application 20100162131, entitled "Collaboration Interface For A Multi-Channel Collaboration Window With Context Support."
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IBM holds patent 7,734,691, for "Providing collaboration services to a wireless device."
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Patent application 20100175129, submitted by IBM on July 8, 2010, is for "Method for Notification Upon Exposure To Offensive Behavioural Patterns In Collaboration."
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AT&T gets enteprise social comm in gear with patent application 2010013849, "Method and Apparatus For Multimedia Collaboration Using a Social Network System attempts to plug that gap."
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Patent application 20100169888, "Virtual Process Collaboration," seems to take advantage of thread server technology developed by San Francisco's Resilient Network Systems."
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Groupwise communication functionality from Microsoft patent number 7,747,719,"Methods, tools, and interfaces for the dynamic assignment of people to groups to enable enhanced communication and collaboration."
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A second diagram, showing a sample user profile, from Microsoft patent number 7,747,719,"Methods, tools, and interfaces for the dynamic assignment of people to groups to enable enhanced communication and collaboration."
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A second diagram, showing a sample user profile, from Microsoft patent number 7,747,719,"Methods, tools, and interfaces for the dynamic assignment of people to groups to enable enhanced communication and collaboration."
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Figure from Cisco's patent application "Asynchronous Workflow Participation Within An Immersive Collaboration Environment."
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