International Business Machines Corporation

Hong Dai

David Andrew Brooks

Craig Richard Wolpert

Niklas Heidloff

Igor Belakovskiy

Sami Mohammed Shalabi

Joseph Anthony Russo

Eric Leonard Masselle

Corinne M Ryan

Charles Robert Hill

Michael Anthony Dempsey

A method, system and apparatus for expanded membership access control in a collaborative environment. A collaborative application which has been configured for expanded membership access control can include a collaborative space configured to host places, and rooms and sub-rooms within the places. The collaborative space further can include a membership management processor coupled to the collaborative space and programmed both to produce access control lists for the rooms and sub-rooms based upon specified roles for members and to assign the roles to members added to the rooms and sub-rooms separately from the access control lists. Notably, a membership directory also can be included which can be configured to store membership information for the members exclusive of the access control lists.

Expanded membership access control in a collaborative environment

Described are a method and apparatus for searching for user relevant information in content repositories using community search scopes. According to the method, a user is presented with a selection of search scopes in which the user is a member. The user selects one of the search scopes according to the desired information and provides a search request that can include, for example, keywords, phrases and data attributes. Searching is performed in each content repository assigned to the search scope if the user is a member of the content repository. Relevant information found in the search content repositories is presented to the user.

Community search scopes for enterprises applications

A system for generating an electronic notice programmed to display a portion of a day out of the office notice. The system including an application server node configured to execute a personal information management application. An application programming interface is programmatically associated with the personal information management application for allowing requests for services to be transmitted to the personal information management application. At least one of a rich client delegate and a remote EJB housing the API, the rich client delegate and the remote EJB being programmatically associated with the application server node and the personal information management application. The rich client delegate being configured to receive and transmit data to the API via a network. At least one client node is operably associated with the application server node via the network. Each client node having a user interface (UI) that is programmatically associated with the personal information management application.

System for portion of a day out of office notification

A method and system for sharing search index entries across multiple computer systems organized in a peer to peer network, in which unique content is indexed only once, even though the content may be physically duplicated in multiple computer systems in the peer to peer network. When files are obtained by a shared indexing service, and a determination is made as to whether the received files are duplicates with regard to previously indexed files. If a file is determined to be a duplicate, the index representation of the previously indexed copy of the file is modified to indicate that the file is also associated with another computer system in the peer to peer network. If a file is not a duplicate of a previously indexed file, the file is indexed to support future searches. The index representation of a file includes category identifiers associating one or more computer systems with the file. When a file is indexed, one or more category identifiers are generated and stored in association with that file. The category identifiers for an indexed file may represent host computer systems on which copies of the file are stored. The category identifiers enable location specific searching by computer systems in a peer to peer network sharing a common search index. A software category filter may be provided to process search results from the shared search index, so that only files associated with certain categories are returned.

Method for providing a shared search index in a peer to peer network

A method and system for sharing full text index entries across application boundaries in which documents are obtained by a shared, platform level indexing service, and a determination is made as to whether the received documents are duplicates with regard to previously indexed documents. If a document is determined to be a duplicate, the index representation of the previously indexed copy of the document is modified to indicate that the document is also associated with another application or context. If a document is not a duplicate of a previously indexed document, the document is indexed to support future searches and/or other processing. The index representation of a document includes application category identifiers associating one or more applications or contexts with the document. When a document is indexed, one or more category identifiers are generated and stored in association with that document. The category identifiers for an indexed document may, for example, represent an application that received, stored, or otherwise processed that document. The application category identifiers enable category specific searching by applications sharing a common search index. A software category filter may be provided to process search results from the shared search index, so that only documents associated with certain categories are returned. Accordingly, one or more search categories may be determined for a given search query, based on an application generating the search query, or some other context information, and then used to filter the search results provided from the shared search index.

Sharing of full text index entries across application boundaries

When a message having at least one attachment is obtained for indexing, it is indexed as N+1 separate documents, where N is the number of attached documents. If the message is part of a message thread, then information regarding the last message in the thread is retrieved, and search index attachment meta data for the last message is extracted. A unique identifier is computed for the newly obtained attachments, and used to search for matches in the attachments for the last message in the thread. If there is a match, then the newly obtained attachment is not indexed, but the unique identifier of the previously indexed matching attachment is added to a body index document for the new message. A unique identifier associated with the new message is also added to a list of parent identifiers associated with the attachment.

Method and system for providing a search index for an electronic messaging system based on message threads

A system for central refresh of a place includes a source place; a place type; a child place; each place comprising a plurality of place objects implemented as documents, logic, and associated design note, each design note including a plurality of items; some of the items being content items descriptive of content of the objects. A central refresh execution module determines whether an inherited place object is modified in a place by assigning to each item a sequence indicia indicative of change activity with respect to the item; generating and storing a stored checksum of sequence indicia generated for the content items; and responsive to a refresh operation with respect to the child place, and calculating a refresh checksum of sequence indicia for the content items. The central refresh execution module is responsive to the stored checksum and the refresh checksum being unequal for refreshing the child place.

System and method for central refresh of place objects

A system and method is provided for user and command specific place based caching with cache validation, including a server; a database; a server cache; the server responsive to receiving a request message for generating a user-specific cache file name, accessing the server based cache with the file name to obtain a cached response message, validating the cached response message, generating a response message selectively from the cached response message if obtained and validated, and otherwise generating from the database and selectively caching the response message.

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