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Arulseelan Thiruppathi

Michael Philip Arcuri

Michael H Ammerlaan

Michael Joseph Morton

Corey Roussel

Jeremy Max Stevens

John Keith Bankston

Samudra Sengupta

Maxim S Lukiyanov

Jared Christopher McElwee

A conflict resolution system is described for reducing false conflicts among entities synchronized within a content management system. A typical content management system maintains a version for an entity that is incremented each time an endpoint modifies the entity, including changes that affect the metadata rather than the content of the entity. The conflict resolution system adds a new content version that is updated when the content of the entity changes. By comparing content version information, endpoints can automatically resolve false conflicts that occur when an endpoint has modified the metadata of the entity.

Resolving conflicts in content management systems

A system and method is provided that allows solutions for a server farm to be submitted to a centralized location in the server farm. The submitted solutions can be selected and scheduled for automatic deployment for all servers in the server farm. Deployed solutions can be retracted from the servers in the server farm. A damaged server or a new server in the server farm can be synchronized to have the same solutions that have been deployed across the server farm.

Solution deployment in a server farm

Preventing unauthorized data posts to a server hosting an information site, such as a site on the Web. A HASH value can be generated at a server computer hosting the information site using a message digest algorithm and appended, along with an additional data item present in the message used to generate the HASH value, to a data form in response to a request for the data form. In response to receiving a post containing data corresponding to data required by the data form, the server computer can determine if a HASH value and data item has been attached to the data post and if the HASH value is the same value as the HASH value sent with the form file. If data are posted without a correct HASH value, the data can be rejected by the server computer, preventing unauthorized posts of data to the information site.

Method for mitigating web-based 'one-click' attacks

A Web view page is provided by a browser module operating with a dialog box of an application program. The browser module displays a Web view page in a browser window within the dialog box of the application program, enabling a user to perform browser functions and application program functions by selecting an element in the Web view page. The browser module detects whether a selected element can be processed by the browser module alone, and if not, communicates the selected element to the dialog box of the application program for processing. A server that is capable of interacting with the Web view page implements the functions requested by the user.

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