U.S. Patent 8275836 was awarded to VirtualAgility, Inc on 2012-09-25 and describes a “System and method 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 it methods for management patents in the field of electrical engineering. The abstract states:

A system for supporting collaborative activity in a network includes a storage component storing data related to the network and a model of the network; a processor that accesses the stored data and the model to process the data according to the model, where the stored data relates to the collaborative activity including user-defined data created by interaction of a user and the model, and context data related to the user, where the user-defined data and the context data, as metadata, are stored in the storage component; and a user interface, provided by the processor, that presents the user-defined data, the context data, and the model in a form readable by the user, the interface permitting the user to define a set of arbitrary domains, relate the user-defined data to the domains, and view relationships between the user-defined data and the context data, and the domains. Link: U.S. Patent 8275836

This patent was originally filed on 2011-12-07 which gives it a processing time of 293 days, compared to an average processing time of 919 in the field. VirtualAgility, Inc has 13 total patents. The first named inventor is Douglas F. Beaven of Cambridge, MA. The primary examiner was Mohamed Wasel.

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