U.S. Patent 7698160 was awarded to VirtualAgility, Inc on 2010-04-13 and describes a “System for performing collaborative tasks.” This patent has been cited 653 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 performing collaborative tasks which permits collaborators to determine the form of a model of the collaborative work, to modify the model in the course of the collaborative work, and to use the model to access information related to the collaborative work. A graphical user interface permits collaborators to view the model and the information accessible via the model in various ways as well as to modify the model and the information. Collaborators belong to groups and group membership determines access to the model and the related information. The information related to the collaborative work includes documents, discussions, email, reminders, and alerts. In a disclosed embodiment of the system, the model is made up of model entities which belong to hierarchies. A model entity may be a member of more than one hierarchy and the different hierarchies are used to provide different views of the model. Link: U.S. Patent 7698160

This patent was originally filed on 2004-01-27 which gives it a processing time of 2268 days, compared to an average processing time of 2312 in the field. VirtualAgility, Inc has 13 total patents. The first named inventor is Douglas F. Beaven of Cambridge, MA. The primary examiner was James Zurita.

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