International Business Machines Corporation

Amber Roy-Chowdhury

Shankar Ramaswamy

Srikanth Thirumalai

Randy Allan Rendahl

Alexey Roytman

Gennady Laventman

Eric Leonard Masselle

Michael C Wanderski

Sai Gopala Rathnam

Samar Choudhary

Patrick Gabriel McGowan

Michael D Facemire

Douglass J Wilson

John M Lucassen

Ajamu Akinwunmi Wesley

Hanumaiah Chowdary

A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium being operable to associate each of a plurality of tenants with a respective virtual portal and individually meter virtual portal usage at each respective virtual portal. Additionally, the computer executable code is operable to determine a fee amount for the each of the plurality of tenants based on the individually metered virtual portal usage.

Mapping portal applications in multi-tenant environment

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to wiring components in a component based application and provide a method, system and computer program product for heuristically assembling components in a component based application. In one embodiment, a data processing system configured to assemble component based applications can include a component aggregation application including an application builder configured to assemble components into a component based application. The system further can include a property broker coupled to the component aggregation application and configured to apply a wiring scheme to selected components in a component based application. Finally, a collaborative heuristic integration matching engine (CHIME) can be coupled to the property broker and a data store of behaviorally derived data, the CHIME including program enabled to suggest components for assembly in a component based application based upon behaviorally derived data in the data store.

Heuristic assembly of a component based application

Enabling network-accessible applications to be integrated into content aggregation frameworks (such as portals) and to become dynamically interactive through proxying components (such as proxying portlets), thereby providing run-time cooperation and data sharing.

Enabling interactive integration of network-accessible applications in a content aggregation framework

An end-user or administrator is allowed to couple portlets in a portal through user interface events taking place on the portal display itself. When the portal is displayed, if the user actuates a control corresponding to a property in a portlet, a menu of actions that can be performed with that data by other portlets is provided to the user. In addition to this 'conventional' manner, an alternative manner of actuating the component is provided to the user such that if the user actuates the control in this alternative manner, the user is provided the option of making the chosen action 'persistent,' so that the next time the control is actuated by the user, or the associated property is otherwise produced, the chosen action is performed automatically, without requiring the user to choose an action.

Persistence of inter-application communication patterns and behavior under user control

A system and method is provided for integrating portlets. When viewing portlets within a portal container, a user is presented with a choice of one or more sources of data and, for each source, one or more actions that the user can take regarding the source. When an action is selected, it causes the source data to be transferred to one or more 'target' portlets that have also been activated by the user. The set of actions available from a given source is automatically provided given the available target portlets. As each portlet is initialized, it informs a 'broker' of the actions that the portlet supports along with the type of data that is used by the action. When a portal page is being constructed, each portlet identifies to the broker the sources of data within the portlet along with the values and data types corresponding to the sources.

System and method for user driven interactive application integration

A method of automatically creating portlets for a portal system can include identifying a location of structured data described by a data model specification and automatically determining, from the data model specification, relationships between a plurality of objects within the structured data. The method further can include automatically generating a plurality of portlets, wherein each portlet is configured to query the structured data according to the relationships specified within the data model specification. One or more communication links between at least two of the portlets can be automatically created according to the relationships specified within the data model specification.

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Cary, NC, United States of America

Amber Roy-Chowdhury