Patent ID: 8918458
Filing Date: 2014-12-23
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for utilizing group statistics for a group participating in a collaborative session, the method comprising the steps of: collecting group statistics for a grouped set of participants designated to participate in a collaborative session provided by a human-to-human collaborative tool executing in a computing system, the group statistics comprising a percentage of the participants in the grouped set of participants having a particular availability status, the grouped set of participants comprising selected ones of participants in the collaborative session; generating a display of the percentage of the participants in the grouped set of participants having the particular availability status; and, rendering said generated display of the percentage of the participants in the grouped set of participants having the particular availability status in a user interface in association with a hierarchical listing of participants in said collaborative session, the hierarchical listing of participants comprising both individual participants in said collaborative session and also the grouped set of participants in said collaborative session.