U.S. Patent 8082301 was awarded to VirtualAgility, Inc on 2011-12-20 and describes a “System for supporting collaborative activity.” This patent has been cited 648 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative digital communication patents in the field of electrical engineering. The abstract states:

A system includes a processor which has access to a representation of model of activity, which includes workspaces. Each workspace includes domain hierarchies for representing an organizational structure of the collaborating users using the system, and initiatives hierarchies representing process structures for accomplishing goals. An interface permits users to view and modify the workspaces for which the user has access. Each user can have different access permissions in different workspaces. The domain and initiative hierarchies provide two views of the workspace objects without duplicating resources. A resource is a collection of shared elements defined by the users that give users associated with the workspace access to information sources. Users can define knowledge boards for creating reports based on information fields of the resources. The knowledge board is associated with a resource template from which the resource is created. Link: U.S. Patent 8082301

This patent was originally filed on 2007-11-13 which gives it a processing time of 1498 days, compared to an average processing time of 1661 in the field. VirtualAgility, Inc has 13 total patents. The first named inventor is Andy Chung-An Chang of Winchester, MA. The primary examiner was Frantz B Jean.

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