Method and apparatus for defining relationships between collaboration entities in a collaboration environment
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    发明申请
    Method and apparatus for defining relationships between collaboration entities in a collaboration environment 审中-公开
    用于在协作环境中定义协作实体之间关系的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20070124375A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-05-31

    申请号:US11291381

    申请日:2005-11-30

    IPC分类号: G06F15/16

    CPC分类号: G06Q10/10 H04L12/1813

    摘要: In a software environment for team collaboration, a relationship processor defines relationships between collaboration entities (artifacts) in the collaboration environment. The relationship processor is operable to define, capture, and traverse relationships in a generic manner independently of the underlying types of artifacts included in the relationships. Accordingly, participant artifacts of such a relationship may be a set of workspace artifacts of dissimilar types, and may be associated by a 1:1, a 1:N, or an N:M relation. Therefore, relationships may include individual or sets of artifacts of various cardinality and directionality, as discussed further above. A relationship processor captures the defined relationships in a set of DB tables. The tables enumerate the related entities of the various types instantiated by the applications operative in the workspace. In this manner, the workspace employs a variety of type-unrestricted artifacts for further processing and/or organization.

    摘要翻译: 在用于团队协作的软件环境中,关系处理器定义协作环境中协作实体(工件)之间的关系。 关系处理器可操作以独立于关系中包括的工件的底层类型,以通用方式定义,捕获和遍历关系。 因此,这种关系的参与者工件可以是不同类型的一组工作空间伪像,并且可以通过1:1,1:N或N:M关系相关联。 因此,如上所述,关系可以包括各种基数和方向性的个体或一组伪影。 关系处理器捕获一组DB表中定义的关系。 这些表列举了在工作空间中操作的应用程序实例化的各种类型的相关实体。 以这种方式,工作空间使用各种类型的无限制伪像用于进一步的处理和/或组织。