Patent ID: 9614880
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: providing, by a server computer, a shared workspace for facilitating collaborative work by a plurality of users with respect to a plurality of shared-access objects comprising shared-access documents and shared-access folders; obtaining, by the server computer, real-time activity information describing ongoing actions currently being performed with respect to one or more of the shared-access objects; determining, by the server computer based at least in part on the real-time activity information, whether a real-time notification rule is satisfied, wherein the real-time notification rule is a rule about ongoing actions currently being performed with respect to one or more of the shared-access objects of the shared workspace; outputting, by the server computer for display in an activity stream and in response to determining that the real-time notification rule is satisfied, a real-time notification associated with the real-time notification rule, removing, by the server computer, from display in the activity stream, the real-time notification upon determining that the real-time notification rule is no longer satisfied.