International Business Machines Corporation

Cindy M Wu

Ping Wang

Yu Guo

Patrick Y Lin

William Drake

Yuval S Gilbert

Joseph Z Lu

Hunter R Medney

Salvatore G Mazzotta

Authentication based on a target uniform resource identifier (URI) via security proxies. A framework for creating, updating and deleting authentication groups according to a destination URI may be provided. Each of the authentication groups may have a corresponding adaptable authentication scheme. An access from a client to a server may be classified into an authentication group. An authentication request from the client to the server may be intercepted by an authentication scheme based on the authentication group. A session based cookie may be utilized for supporting access between the client and the server.

Reducing complexities of authentication and authorization for enterprise web-based social applications

Described are a system and method for facilitating collaboration on a project by multiple team members. A plurality of projects and a plurality of documents are stored in persistent storage of a server system. A user launches an application program that displays an expandable and collapsible view showing each project of the plurality of projects for which the user is a team member and each document linked to each of the shown projects. Searchable metadata is associated with each project. The searchable metadata associated with each project is propagated to each document linked to that project. A given document is searched for using the metadata propagated from the project linked to that document.

Case management system and method for collaborative project teaming

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Sharon, MA, United States of America

Cindy M Wu