- Number
- 10033772
- Published
- 2018-07-24
- Filed
- 2015-09-11
- Assignee
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Inventors
- Sherlock; Brendan P. et al.
- CPC
- H04L65/4015; H04L65/611; H04L12/1822; H04L67/1095
- Verdict
- Set aside collaborative project management, business ops
- Source
- Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline
Abstract
There are provided collaborative project management systems and method. Such a system includes a hardware processor, and a system memory having stored therein a collaboration module including a master project application corresponding to a collaborative project, a visual effects application, and a multi-user collaborator application. The hardware processor is configured to execute the collaboration module to process a change data corresponding to an update to the collaborative project, assign control of the master project application to the visual effects application, transform the change data into a visual effect, and produce a modification to the master project application based on the visual effect. The hardware processor is also configured to execute the collaboration module to transfer control of the master project application to the multi-user collaborator application, and to provide a master change data for updating user applications utilized by respective remote users, based on the modification.
Background
BACKGROUND(1) The completion of time sensitive and highly complex projects increasingly requires contributions from a geographically dispersed team of experts having specialized knowledge and/or uniquely relevant experience. In addition, the relative success or failure of such projects may rely on marketplace or business changes that occur dynamically during work on the project and may not be known to the project team. Although tools for enabling collaboration exist, those conventional tools are typically optimized for a particular type of work product and are designed to passively process the inputs provided by individual collaborators. There remains a need for a solution enabling real-time multidisciplinary collaboration for the successful management of complex projects in a dynamically changing project environment.SUMMARY(2) There are provided systems and methods for collaborative project management, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, and as set forth more completely in the claims.
Claims
1. A collaborative project management system comprising: a hardware processor; a system memory having stored therein a collaboration module including a master project application corresponding to a collaborative project, the collaboration module further including a visual effects application and a multi-user collaborator application, wherein the visual effects application and the multi-user collaborator application are non-interactive and are unable to both concurrently control the master project application; wherein the hardware processor is configured to execute the collaboration module to: process a change data corresponding to an update to the collaborative project which is common to a plurality of remote users; assign temporary control of the master project application to the visual effects application, such that the multi-user collaborator application is prevented from concurrently controlling the master project application; transform, after the assigning and using the visual effects application, the change data into a visual effect; produce, after the transforming and using the visual effects application, a modification to the master project application based on the visual effect; transfer, after the producing, control of the master project application to the multi-user collaborator application, such that the visual effects application is prevented from concurrently controlling the master project application; and provide, after the transferring and using the multi-user collaborator application, a master change data for updating a plurality of user applications utilized by the plurality of remote users to participate in the collaborative project, based on the modification.
9. A method for use by a collaborative project management system including a hardware processor and a system memory having a collaboration module stored therein, the method comprising: processing, using the hardware processor, a change data corresponding to an update to a collaborative project which is common to a plurality of remote users; assigning, using the hardware processor, temporary control of a master project application corresponding to the collaborative project to a visual effects application of the collaboration module, such that a multi-user collaborator application is prevented from concurrently controlling the master project application; transforming, after the assigning and using the hardware processor to execute the visual effects application, the change data into a visual effect; producing, after the transforming and using the hardware processor to execute the visual effects application, a modification to the master project application based on the visual effect; transferring, after the producing and using the hardware processor, control of the master project application to the multi-user collaborator application of the collaboration module, such that the visual effects application is prevented from concurrently controlling the master project application; and providing, after the transferring and using the hardware processor to execute the multi-user collaborator application, a master change data for updating a plurality of user applications utilized by the plurality of remote users to participate in the collaborative project, based on the modification; wherein the visual effects application and the multi-user collaborator application are non-interactive and are unable to both concurrently control the master project application.