International Business Machines Corporation

Chenita D Daughtry

Razeyah Stephen

Latoya Sankey

Ebubechukwu I Okafor

Angelo Lynn

Doris L Jones

Carol Sue Zimmet

Robert Cameron Weir

Daniel B Kehn

Mohamed Bachiri

A system for auto-sorting of lists based on most frequent component access or partner collaboration. The elements in the lists may represent collaboration partners (e.g. instant messaging contacts), and/or collaboration components such as Web addresses, events, collaborative documents, activity objects, and/or desktop applications. The system monitors component accesses and/or partner collaborations over a configurable time period to determine the frequency of collaborations with specific collaboration partners, and/or the frequency of accesses to collaboration components. The disclosed system then determines a set of collaboration partners and/or components that are most frequently collaborated with and/or accessed, and moves the list elements representing those collaboration partners and/or components into a top-located sub-list within a list of elements representing a larger number of collaboration partners and/or components in a user interface provided to a local user.

Providing auto-sorting of collaborative partners or components based on frequency of communication and/or access in a collaboration system user interface

Computer method and apparatus manages and navigates computer implemented information. A first source information and second source information are related as parent-child information. Keywords are extracted from the first and second source information and are used to relate second source information to the first source information. This produces dynamic sets or groupings of second source information related by keywords. Display of a listing of the keywords enables user navigation of the information especially according to the groupings of second source information.

Computer method and apparatus of information management and navigation

A system for auto-sorting of lists based on most frequent component access or partner collaboration. The elements in the lists may represent collaboration partners (e.g. instant messaging contacts), and/or collaboration components such as Web addresses, events, collaborative documents, activity objects, and/or desktop applications. The system monitors component accesses and/or partner collaborations over a configurable time period to determine the frequency of collaborations with specific collaboration partners, and/or the frequency of accesses to collaboration components. The disclosed system then determines a set of collaboration partners and/or components that are most frequently collaborated with and/or accessed, and moves the list elements representing those collaboration partners and/or components into a top-located sub-list within a list of elements representing a larger number of collaboration partners and/or components in a user interface provided to a local user. The size of the top-located sub-list is user configurable, and the user may further indicate that certain collaboration partners and/or components are to be added to the sub-list, removed from the sub-list, always excluded from the sub-list, or always included in the sub-list. The local user may also be provided with a configurable set of alert notifications through the user interface communicating when collaboration partners and/or components have been added to and/or removed from the sub-list.

A system for allowing multiple users to access and unlock shared electronic documents in a computer system. A group of users are defined as potential 'lock-breaker' users for a document, such that they are automatically contacted in the event that a user wishes to unlock the document after it has been locked by another user. The lock-breaker users defined for a document are given access rights to the document that allow them to break a current lock on the document, so that it can be opened for editing, and accordingly re-locked. The lock-breaker users for a document may be organized in a hierarchy, such as a hierarchy matching the relationships of employees of an organization. The lock-breaker hierarchy may define the order in which the lock-breaker users are automatically contacted when a user wishes to access a locked document (e.g. an LDAP directory tree or social network).

Method and system for allowing multiple users to access and unlock shared electronic documents in a computer system

An exemplary embodiment of a system for monitoring website content, including, a browser client operative to send a first request for content to a first website server, the content stored on a second website server, an intermediate server, operative to receive a URL associated with the content, from the first website sever, the URL comprising an address of the intermediate server, an address of the content, and an address for threshold data stored on the intermediate server associated with the content, the threshold data including a plurality of thresholds, the intermediate server further configured to send a second request for the content to the second website server, receive the content, determine whether the content exceeds the plurality of thresholds associated with the content, deny the first request for content, responsive to determining that the content exceeds one of the plurality thresholds associated with the content.

Methods and systems involving monitoring website content

A pop-up window is generated when the user clicks on the slider within the scroll bar display object. The pop-up window displays information from one or more categories in a currently selected list entry, including the category on which the list is currently sorted. As the user moves the slider, the information in the pop-window is updated to reflect the current location in the list, as determined by the current location of slider within the scroll bar. When the user stops scrolling, i.e. releases the scroll slider, the matching entry for the current location becomes highlighted, and the system enters a search mode. In the search mode, the disclosed system continues to display the pop-up window for a few seconds to allow the user the option of editing the text in the pop-up (as derived from the current position in the list) in order to go to another entry in the sorted list. Accordingly, the sorted category information loaded from the current list entry becomes editable within the pop-up window with a type ahead feature allowing the user to see and select from and search based on information from list entries in the sorted data that closely match the text that the user has typed into the pop-up window. When the user presses 'Enter', the current view and scroll bar position are relocated to reflect the position of the entry matching the selected search information.

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Roxbury, MA, United States of America

Chenita D Daughtry