Connected Data, Inc.

Salesforce Com, Inc.

David Gary Mendelson

Geoffrey S Barrall

Brad Lee Morse

Joel Feaster

John B Turner

Charles Richard Lewis, Jr

Rasmus Mencke

Weiping Peng

Mark J Herbert

Paul Gene Byrne

HuaSheng Su

Jennifer Yang

Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for generating or updating cross-community streams. A plurality of communities can be maintained on behalf of a plurality of member organizations. Members of each community can have access to a corresponding set of records. One or more selections operable to assign one or more records to one or more cross-community streams can be displayed in a user interface on a display of a device of a first user. A first request from the first user to assign a first set of one or more records to a first cross-community stream can be processed. The first cross-community stream can be generated or updated.

Generating or updating cross-community streams

In various embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method of graphically displaying, by a central server of a peer-to-peer folder sharing system, on a client computer of a user, data sharing arrangements made for internal and external purposes with respect to an organization. The user has rights to access such data sharing arrangements.

System and method for visualizing data sharing arrangements for an organization

In various embodiments, the present invention relates to systems and methods for managing user data in a plurality of storage appliances coupled to a wide area network. In some embodiments, the present invention relates to systems and methods that allow users to view and manipulate files in a shared virtual container. In other embodiments, the present invention also relates to systems and methods that allow users to access virtual containers located on storage appliances that are owned by other users.

System and method for socially organized storage and shared access to storage appliances

In various embodiments, the present invention relates to a method of operating a server to manage user data in a plurality of storage appliances. The method involves establishing in a database system, via the server, information for each registered user; establishing and storing in the database system a set of relationships, based on designations by the users, among registered storage appliances and container designations; and using a central service running on the server to deliver storage appliance-container relationship data to the storage appliances so as to enable the appliances to substantiate the containers therein, and to replicate user data with other storage appliances that have substantiated corresponding containers, in a manner consistent with the stored relationships, and wherein the central service operates without interaction with user data stored in the containers.

System and method for managing user data in a plurality of storage appliances over a wide area network for collaboration, protection, publication, or sharing

Personal storage appliance

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San Carlos, CA, United States of America

David Gary Mendelson