Patent Document ID: 9230014
Application ID: 13231457

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for suggesting one or more relevant artifacts from among a plurality of artifacts in a collaborative environment having a plurality of users, comprising: inferring, by a collaboration module executed by a processor, a group of close collaborators from among the plurality of users for a current user based upon interaction of the users with each other and the plurality of artifacts, wherein interaction amongst users creates collaboration events involving particular artifacts created, accessed, or marked by the current user or one of the group of close collaborators; determining, by a suggestion module executed by a processor and coupled to the collaboration module, the suggested one or more relevant artifacts based on at least one or more patterns of collaboration events of the group of close collaborators with respect to the artifacts, user feedback, and organizational rules; presenting a list of the suggested one or more relevant artifacts to the current user in a plurality of groups of textual explanation, each of the plurality of groups of textual explanation having a general textual explanation that applies to all artifacts in that group and each of the suggested one or more relevant artifacts in that group having a specific textual explanation comprising at least one reason each of the suggested one or more relevant artifacts in that group is suggested to the user by the suggestion module; and offering feedback controls for allowing the current user to vary the relevancy of the suggested one or more relevant artifacts, groups and close collaborators by providing interactive feedback controls.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 where the inferring is based on a set of defined relationships among the plurality of users.