Systems and methods for providing a collaboration work management platform that facilitates differentiation between users in an overarching group and one or more subsets of individual users

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11632260-B2
Application number	US-202217587386-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 28, 2022
Priority date	Jun 8, 2018
Publication date	Apr 18, 2023
Grant date	Apr 18, 2023

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing a collaboration work management platform that facilitates differentiation between users in an overarching group and one or more subsets of individual users within the overarching group to enable the users within the individual subsets to use the collaboration work management platform differently users within the other subsets, the method being implemented by a computer system including one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information for maintaining a collaboration environment.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system configured to provide a collaboration environment, the system comprising:
one or more hardware processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
determine when users of a collaboration environment who belong to individual subsets of users are collaborating with other ones of the users belonging to other ones of the individual subsets of users; and
enable or disable use of features of the collaboration environment for the users based on determinations of when the users belonging to the individual subsets of users are collaborating with the other ones of the users belonging to the other ones of the individual subsets of users, such that:
use of a first set of features by a first user belonging to a first subset of users but not belonging to a second subset of users is enabled while the first user is collaborating with a second user belonging to the second subset of users, and
the use of the first set of features is disabled for the first user when the first user is done collaborating with the second user.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more hardware processors configured by the machine-readable instructions to:
manage user information associated with the users, the user information identifying an overarching group of the users, and denoting one or more subsets within the overarching group to which one or more of the users belong.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the users belonging to different ones of the individual subsets of users have different level accounts.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the users having the different level accounts have access to different sets of features.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first set of features include one or more of custom work unit templates, external invite capabilities; dashboard reports, search features, access to work units, support resources, dependency capabilities, or onboarding resources.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the individual subsets of users are included in an overarching group of users, the overarching group of users including one or more of an organization, a company, an entity, a corporation, an enterprise, or a business.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the first subset of users includes one or more of a sub-group, a division, a department, or a task force within the overarching group.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein collaborating includes working on a specific unit of work within the collaboration environment.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein collaborating includes performing a specific interaction within the collaboration environment.

10. A method to provide a collaboration environment, the method comprising:
determining when users of a collaboration environment who belong to individual subsets of users are collaborating with other ones of the users belonging to other ones of the individual subsets of users, and
enabling or disabling use of features of the collaboration environment for the users based on determinations of when the users belonging to the individual subsets of users are collaborating with the other ones of the users belonging to the other ones of the individual subsets of users, including:
enabling use of a first set of features by a first user belonging to a first subset of users but not belonging to a second subset of users while the first user belonging to the first subset of users is collaborating with the second user belonging to the second subset of users, and
disabling the use of the first set of features for the first user when the first user is done collaborating with the second user.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
managing user information associated with the users, the user information identifying an overarching group of the users, and denoting one or more subsets within the overarching group to which one or more of the users belong.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the users belonging to different ones of the individual subsets of users have different level accounts.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the users having the different level accounts have access to different sets of features.

14. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first set of features include one or more of custom work unit templates, external invite capabilities, dashboard reports, search features, access to work units, support resources, dependency capabilities, or onboarding resources.

15. The method of claim 10 , wherein the individual subsets of users are included in an overarching group of users, the overarching group of users including one or more of an organization, a company, an entity, a corporation, an enterprise, or a business.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the first subset of users includes one or more of a sub-group, a division, a department, or a task force within the overarching group.

17. The method of claim 10 , wherein collaborating includes working on a specific unit of work within the collaboration environment.

18. The method of claim 10 , wherein collaborating includes performing a specific interaction within the collaboration environment.

Assignees

• Asana Inc

Inventors

• Raghavan Srikrishna
• Han Lawrence

Classifications

• H04L12/1822

  Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission · CPC title

• G06Q10/103 Primary

  Workflow collaboration or project management · CPC title

• H04L12/185 Primary

  with management of multicast group membership · CPC title

• G06F2221/2145

  Inheriting rights or properties, e.g., propagation of permissions or restrictions within a hierarchy · CPC title

• G06F21/62

  Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules · CPC title