Overview
The Collaborator Common Collaborative Environment (CCE) is designed to meet a
variety of applications, including shared situational awareness by
providing a Web-based chat room equipped with a synchronized, multilayered,
multiprivileged, multimedia whiteboard. User log in requires using just a
commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Web browser, for anytime/anywhere 24/7
availability. CCE is especially useful for the disadvantaged user operating in a
constrained bandwidth environment, from a U.S. Navy destroyer to a local
sheriff's department.
Features (Patented)
- Web based: Runs in a COTS Web browser
- Active moving content: In addition to still imagery, the whiteboard can
include a collaborative common operational picture with live, moving, hookable
tracks; full-motion annotated streaming video; and database mining agents.
- Logical separation of data: Objects can be placed and annotated on any of 10
transparent logical whiteboard layers. Whiteboard layers can be displayed in any
combination.
- Compartmentalization of data: Collaborator CCE respects rank and privilege
by providing multiple group privileging schemes to hide and separate data from
among the different users. Authors can chat and post information onto the
whiteboard for limited distribution to the community of logged-in users. A
10-tier security access privileging scheme is implemented.
- Complete mission playback for lessons learned: Whiteboard activity may be
logged together with chat room activity. Whiteboards and documents can be stored
for later retrieval.
- Language translation: The user interface changes to North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) languages.
- Standards compliance: Collaborator CCE can run third-party Java applets on
the whiteboard.
Concept Validation
Collaborator was installed aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19)
(COMSEVENTHFLT) for demonstration and validity checking of the collaboration
concept for command, control, communications,
computers, collaboration, and intelligence (C5I). The product was found to have
applications in mission planning, weather forecasting
[meteorological/oceanographic (METOC)], telemedicine, logistics support, and
training. Collaborator is envisioned to support digital multimedia communication
of information in a 24/7 secure environment with dispersed personnel across
time, geographic, and language barriers. The goal is to enable personnel to
collaboratively make command decisions in less time with a greater certainty of
the information through teamwork, data mining, and intelligent agent technology.
The Collaborator Common Collaborative Environment technology is
protected by one or more of the following United States Patents: 6,351,777;
6,463,460; 7,024,456; 7,043,529; and 7,162,528. These patents are assigned to
the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and may
be available for licensing.
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