US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Ordering collaborative actions in a graphical user interface" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,014, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Ordering collaborative actions in a graphical user interface" was invented by Keith Kaplan (Long Island City, N.Y.), Jayanth Krishnan (Mahopac, N.Y.), Paul R. Bastide (Ashland, Mass.) and Krishnan Sugavanam (Mahopac, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for organizing tasks presented on a graphical user interface of a computer hardware system for a user includes the following operations. An electronic message associated with a collaborative messaging application executing with the computer hardware system is r...