Patent ID: 9584450
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: aggregating content corresponding to a user from at least one task management system, wherein the content indicates at least one task assigned to the user and at least one collaboration partner associated with, affected by or that has an interest in, the at least one task; aggregating historical content from a social networking service; determining, using a processor processing the historical content, whether the user has recently and frequently communicated with the at least one collaboration partner in an occupation context using the social networking service; determining, using the processor processing the historical content, a subject of, or content contained in, at least one communication exchanged between the user and the at least one collaboration partner in the occupation context using the social networking service; analyzing an organizational hierarchy to identify a position of the collaboration partner in the organizational hierarchy, analyzing the organizational hierarchy comprising determining whether the collaboration partner is assigned to a same team and a same department as the user; based on the aggregated content from the at least one task management system, and responsive to determining that the user has recently and frequently communicated with the at least one collaboration partner in an occupation context using the social networking service, determining the subject of, or content contained in, the at least one communication exchanged between the user and the at least one collaboration in the occupation context using the social networking service and the collaboration partner's position in the organizational hierarchy, identifying, using the processor, the at least one collaboration partner as a priority collaboration partner; automatically determining whether the user currently is not in a facility where the user works; and responsive to determining that the user is not in the facility where the user works, automatically sending to the priority collaboration partner a message indicating that the user is not in the facility where the user works.