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US 12,332,848 · App. 18/241,010 · Granted Jun 17, 2025

Automated collaboration

Inventors: Priya Nayak (San Francisco, CA); James Watts (New York, NY)
Assignee: Google LLC
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Patent No.
US 12,332,848
App. No.
18/241,010
Granted
Jun 17, 2025
Kind
B1
Abstract

A method for suggesting collaboration between a plurality of users of a communication system includes identifying a first document pertaining to a first event associated with a first user, determining that collaboration is allowed for the first document, identifying a second document having a collaborative similarity with the first document and pertaining to a second event and associated with a second user, generating a collaboration suggestion for collaboration between the first user and the second user with respect to the first event, providing the collaboration suggestion to collaborate with respect to the first event on a user device of the first user, receiving an indication of an acceptance, by the first user, of the collaboration suggestion, and causing a collaboration session to be established between the user device of the first user and a user device of the second user to collaborate with respect to the first event.

Claims (50)

1. A method for suggesting collaboration between a plurality of users of a communication system, the method comprising:

identifying, by a processing device, a first document pertaining to a first event, the first document associated with a first user of the plurality of users;

determining whether collaboration is allowed for the first document;

responsive to determining that the collaboration is allowed for the first document, identifying, by the processing device, a second document having a collaborative similarity with the first document, the second document pertaining to a second event and associated with a second user of the plurality of users, the collaborative similarity being identified based on how similar the first event is to the second event, and additional information associated with the first document and the second document, the additional information comprising information about the second user and temporal information indicating temporal proximity between the first event and the second event, the temporal information comprising first time data of the first document and second time data of the second document;

responsive to identifying the second document having the collaborative similarity with the first document, generating, by the processing device, a collaboration suggestion for collaboration between the first user and the second user with respect to the first event;

providing, by the processing device, the collaboration suggestion to collaborate with respect to the first event on a user device of the first user;

receiving, by the processing device, an indication of an acceptance, by the first user, of the collaboration suggestion; and

causing a collaboration session to be established between the user device of the first user and a user device of the second user to collaborate with respect to the first event.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the collaboration allowed for the first document comprises at least one of concurrent viewing or concurrent editing of content of the first document by the first user and at least one other user of the plurality of users.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the second document having the collaborative similarity with the first document comprises:

determining whether a collaboration metric for measuring a similarity between the first document and the second document meets a threshold value.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the similarity is one or more of a contextual information similarity, a temporal similarity, a location similarity, a document similarity, or a user similarity.

5. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:

applying a weight to the threshold value based on the collaboration metric.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:

adjusting one or more of the collaboration metric, the threshold value, or the weight.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the collaboration session comprises a third document created based on the first document and the second document.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the third document is one of a word processing document, a spreadsheet document, or a presentation slide document.

9. A system comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device, coupled to the memory, to perform operations comprising:

identifying a first document pertaining to a first event, the first document associated with a first user of a plurality of users of a communication system;

determining whether collaboration is allowed for the first document;

responsive to determining that the collaboration is allowed for the first document, identifying a second document having a collaborative similarity with the first document, the second document pertaining to a second event and associated with a second user of the plurality of users, the collaborative similarity being identified based on how similar the first event is to the second event, and additional information associated with the first document and the second document, the additional information comprising information about the second user and temporal information indicating temporal proximity between the first event and the second event, the temporal information comprising first time data of the first document and second time data of the second document;

responsive to identifying the second document having the collaborative similarity with the first document, generating a collaboration suggestion for collaboration between the first user and the second user with respect to the first event;

providing the collaboration suggestion to collaborate with respect to the first event on a user device of the first user;

receiving an indication of an acceptance, by the first user, of the collaboration suggestion; and

causing a collaboration session to be established between the user device of the first user and a user device of the second user to collaborate with respect to the first event.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the collaboration allowed for the first document comprises at least one of concurrent viewing or concurrent editing of content of the first document by the first user and at least one other user of the plurality of users.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein identifying the second document having the collaborative similarity with the first document comprises:

determining whether a collaboration metric for measuring a similarity between the first document and the second document meets a threshold value.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the similarity is one or more of a contextual information similarity, a temporal similarity, a location similarity, a document similarity, or a user similarity.

13. The system of claim 11 , the operations further comprising:

applying a weight to the threshold value based on the collaboration metric.

14. The system of claim 13 , the operations further comprising:

adjusting one or more of the collaboration metric, the threshold value, or the weight.

15. The system of claim 9 , wherein the collaboration session comprises a third document created based on the first document and the second document.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the third document is one of a word processing document, a spreadsheet document, or a presentation slide document.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

identifying a first document pertaining to a first event, the first document associated with a first user of a plurality of users of a communication system;

determining whether collaboration is allowed for the first document;

responsive to determining that the collaboration is allowed for the first document, identifying a second document having a collaborative similarity with the first document, the second document pertaining to a second event and associated with a second user of the plurality of users, the collaborative similarity being identified based on how similar the first event is to the second event, and additional information associated with the first document and the second document, the additional information comprising information about the second user and temporal information indicating temporal proximity between the first event and the second event, the temporal information comprising first time data of the first document and second time data of the second document;

responsive to identifying the second document having the collaborative similarity with the first document, generating a collaboration suggestion for collaboration between the first user and the second user with respect to the first event;

providing the collaboration suggestion to collaborate with respect to the first event on a user device of the first user;

receiving an indication of an acceptance, by the first user, of the collaboration suggestion; and

causing a collaboration session to be established between the user device of the first user and a user device of the second user to collaborate with respect to the first event.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the collaboration allowed for the first document comprises at least one of concurrent viewing or concurrent editing of content of the first document by the first user and at least one other user of the plurality of users.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17 , wherein identifying the second document having the collaborative similarity with the first document comprises:

determining whether a collaboration metric for measuring a similarity between the first document and the second document meets a threshold value.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the similarity is one or more of a contextual information similarity, a temporal similarity, a location similarity, a document similarity, or a user similarity.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 1, 2024
From: GOOGLE INC.
To: GOOGLE LLC
Reel/Frame 066488/0574 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 30, 2023
From: NAYAK, PRIYA; WATTS, JAMES
To: GOOGLE INC.
Reel/Frame 065379/0311 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17723447 · Apr 18, 2022
Continuation 16149458 · Oct 2, 2018
Continuation 13663750 · Oct 30, 2012
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