Patent ID: 9705967
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of recommending collaborators on a cloud-based collaboration platform, comprising the steps of: generating, for a user, a list of one or more potential collaborators to collaborate on an item managed by the cloud-based collaboration platform, wherein the cloud-based collaboration platform hosts workspaces, each comprising one or more work items, wherein the work item is collaboration content, and wherein the one or more potential collaborators being a subset of other users of the cloud-based collaboration platform who are not currently collaborators of the item; presenting the list of the one or more potential collaborators to the user; receiving, from the user, a selection of at least one collaborator from the list of one or more potential collaborators; and updating the list of one or more potential collaborators with at least one additional user based on a similarity of the at least one additional user to the at least one selected collaborator.