International Business Machines Corporation

Charles P De Saint-Aignan

Mary Ellen Zurko

Christopher Joseph Paul

Satwiksai Seshasai

David J Toth

Stefan Alfons Hepper

Dieter Buehler

Stefan Schmitt

Managing file distribution in an online file sharing system implemented by at least one server includes inviting a first entity to access a shared file hosted by the online file sharing system, and allowing the first entity to reshare the shared the through the online file sharing system with at least a second entity only to an extent permitted by a resharing policy stored by the online file sharing system.

File resharing management

The present invention relates to the field of Network portals and in particular to a method and system for restricting access rights on user profile information using a new notion of peer groups, wherein a given user's peer group is defined to be the set of users containing all the members of all the user's communities, wherein the individual communities are defined within the web portal wherein on said web portal a plurality of composite applications are implemented, wherein each composite application () has a predetermined number of users working with said composite application building a community for that composite application, characterized by the steps of: 

Method and system for restricting access rights on user profile information using a new notion of peer

Managing file distribution in an online file sharing system implemented by at least one server includes inviting a first entity to access a shared file hosted by the online file sharing system, and allowing the first entity to reshare the shared file through the online file sharing system with at least a second entity only to an extent permitted by a resharing policy stored by the online file sharing system.

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Providence, RI, United States of America

Charles P De Saint-Aignan