Presenting collaboration activities

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11709753-B2
Application number	US-201816136196-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 19, 2018
Priority date	Oct 9, 2017
Publication date	Jul 25, 2023
Grant date	Jul 25, 2023

Abstract

Systems and methods for presenting relevant collaboration activity to a collaboration system user. A method embodiment commences upon identifying user events that correspond to interactions between a plurality of users and collaboration objects. The interactions that had been performed and the collaboration objects are both associated with permissions attributes. The interactions are recorded as event records that include aspects of the permissions attributes. When a user opens a user interface, a set of event records is selected based at least in part on the permissions attributes with respect to the user. The selected set of event records are then used to generate a set of user-specific feed entries corresponding to particular individual ones of the set of event records. Characteristics of the individual event records and/or aggregations of event records are used to prepare user-specific feed entries that are presented in a user interface of a user device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for presenting collaboration activity to a particular user, the method comprising:
identifying one or more user events that correspond to interactions between a plurality of users and content objects, wherein the content objects are stored within a content management system, and the plurality of users interacts with the content objects through the content management system;
recording event records that codify one or more event attributes corresponding to one or more of the one or more user events, wherein an event record of the event records comprises a collaborator field that forms a permission attribute for the event record;
generating a graph for a user of the plurality of users at least by:
representing the user as a first node;
respectively representing one or more content objects as one or more second nodes, wherein the one or more second nodes respectively correspond to one or more permission attributes in one or more collaborator fields of at least one event record of the event records pertaining to the one or more content objects; and
determining a logical representation for the user and the one or more content objects at least by establishing a respective edge between the first node and the one or more second nodes based at least in part upon the one or more permission attributes pertaining to both the user and the one or more content objects, wherein the one or more second nodes respectively representing the one or more content objects, and the graph is generated specifically for the user;

identifying a plurality of collaboration activity feed entries pertaining to the content objects on the content management system;
selecting, for the user, a subset of user-specific feed entries from the plurality of collaboration activity feed entries based at least in part on the graph for the user; and
preparing the subset of user-specific feed entries to present to the user in a user interface.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
detecting one or more user interactions with the subset of user-specific feed entries;
determining one or more learning outcomes based at least in part on at least one of the one or more user interactions; and
processing an additional subset of user-specific feed entries associated with the user based at least in part on the one or more learning outcomes.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein determining the one or more learning outcomes is based at least in part on a learning model.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the one or more learning outcomes affects at least one of a display order, or one or more visual elements.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
presenting the subset of user-specific feed entries to the user in an event panel of the user interface.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein both user-to-user interactions and user-to-content interactions are recorded as collaboration activities within the one or more user events that are recorded, and the event records for both the user-to-user interactions and the user-to-content interactions are used to select a respective set of event records corresponding to the subset of user-specific feed entries presented to the user.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein individual ones of the one or more content objects have a respective set of permissions attributes.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more permissions attribute is derived from at least one of one or more user profiles associated with the plurality of users, or a set of access permissions associated with at least the one or more content objects.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the event records are logically represented by at least one event graph data structure.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the event graph data structure comprises two or more nodes that correspond to two or more content objects of the content objects, and the event graph data structure comprises one or more edges that correspond to one or more relationships between the two or more content objects.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor causes a set of acts for presenting collaboration activity to a particular user, the set of acts comprising:
identifying one or more user events that correspond to interactions between a plurality of users and content objects, wherein the one or more content objects are stored within a content management system, and the plurality of users interacts with the content objects through the content management system;
recording event records that codify one or more event attributes corresponding to one or more of the one or more user events, wherein an event record of the event records comprises a collaborator field that forms a permission attribute for the event record;
generating a graph for a user of the plurality of users at least by:
representing the user as a first node;
respectively representing one or more content objects as one or more second nodes, wherein the one or more second nodes respectively correspond to one or more permission attributes in one or more collaborator fields of at least one event record of the event records pertaining to the one or more content objects; and
determining a logical representation for the user and the one or more content objects at least by establishing a respective edge between the first node and the one or more second nodes based at least in part upon the one or more permission attributes pertaining to both the user and the one or more content objects, wherein the one or more second nodes respectively representing the one or more content objects, and the graph is generated specifically for the user;

identifying a plurality of collaboration activity feed entries pertaining to the content objects on the content management system;
selecting, for the user, a first subset of user-specific feed entries from the plurality of collaboration activity feed entries based at least in part on the graph for the user; and
preparing the first subset of user-specific feed entries to present to the user in a first user interface.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the one or more permissions attributes are derived from at least one of one or more user profiles associated with the plurality of users, or a set of access permissions associated with at least the one or more content objects.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the set of acts further comprise:
detecting one or more user interactions with the subset of user-specific feed entries;
determining one or more learning outcomes based at least in part on at least one of the one or more user interactions; and
processing an additional subset of user-specific feed entries associated with the user based at least in part on the one or more learning outcomes.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 13 , wherein determining the one or more learning outcomes is based at least in part on a learning model.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 13 , wherein the one or more learning outcomes affects at least one of a display order, or one or more visual elements.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the set of acts further comprise:
presenting the subset of user-specific feed entries to the first user in an event panel of the user interface.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein both user-to-user interactions and user-to-content interactions are recorded as collaboration activities within the one or more user eve

Assignees

• Box Inc

Inventors

• De Vansa Vikramaratne Victor
• Jalagam Sesh

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

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