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David Andrew Brooks

Joseph Anthony Russo

Amy D Travis

David L Durazzano

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Sami Mohammed Shalabi

Scott Howard Prager

Olgierd Stanislaw Pieczul

Mary Ellen Zurko

Robert Leslie Yates

Maureen G Leland

Mariusz Pajecki

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Thomas Schaeck

Josef Scherpa

Stephen John Foley

Harold B Moss, Iii

Sergei Landar

Patrick Y Lin

Siu Y Maffa

Joseph J Kubik

Alexander Kordun

Jorge Camargo

Antonio Estrada

Distributing communications to users within a network computing system may include monitoring, using a processor, communications between users exchanged within the network computing system, detecting, using the processor, a question within a first communication from a client device of a first user directed to a client device of a second user, and determining, using the processor, that the question is unanswered. Responsive to detecting an answer to the question in a second communication from a client device of a third user directed to the first user, a further communication notifying the second user of the answer to the question may be sent using a processor.

Knowledge management and communication distribution within a network computing system

A method, system and computer program product for performing a search from another individual's social perspective. A name or a portion of a name of an individual known by the user is received. A directory search is then performed pertaining to the individual known by the user. After the user identifies the known individual from the directory search results, a selection to perform a directory, content or document search from the known individual's social perspective is received. Such a search may be performed based on the social network of the known individual. In this manner, by performing such searches from the social perspective of the known individual, such as the individual who disclosed the name of the individual who the user would like to contact, the user will be more likely to identify the correct individual, content or document in a more efficient manner.

Searching people, content and documents from another person's social perspective

Presenting a marking element in a social networking interaction where the marking element includes a question specifier and an answer specifier, creating a knowledge element in response to a user activating the marking element on the social networking interaction or a portion thereof, and presenting a knowledge element indicator in the social networking interaction.

Capturing and managing knowledge from social networking interactions

Managing email content in an activity stream includes receiving a selection of a number of criteria that indicate content to be presented in an activity stream, retrieving email content based on the number of criteria, and displaying the email content in an activity stream by referencing email data related to the metadata.

Managing email content in an activity stream

A method for providing updates for pieces of content in a deck may include creating, by a processor, a deck. The deck may include a plurality of pieces of content. The method may also include leveraging, by the processor, a part of existing content, existing before creation of the deck, for at least one of the plurality of pieces of content in the deck. The at least one of the plurality of pieces of content in the deck, that leverages the part of existing content, is leveraged content and the part of the existing content is referenced content. The method may additionally include configuring, by the processor, the leveraged content for following the referenced content or ancillary content of the referenced content to obtain updates or notifications of updates to the referenced content or ancillary content.

Content following content for providing updates to content leveraged in a deck

A query for a tag within the collaborative tagging system is received. The query can specify at least one attribute of the tag and a particular selected artifact, wherein the attribute includes a security level of a user who created the tag. Tag records that match the query can be determined as query results. Access control privileges can be applied to the query results. Applying the access control privileges can include filtering the tag records by removing tag records that have an assigned security level exceeding a security level of a user that initiated the query. At least a portion of each tag record in the query results that has a security level that does not exceed the security level of the user that initiated the query can be written to a display.

Employing organizational context within a collaborative tagging system

Modifying an activity stream to display recent events of a resource includes checking-in a user to a resource to provide context about the resource, specifying a time duration for which the user is checked-in to the resource, and modifying, based on the time duration, an activity stream of the user to display recent events of the resource.

Modifying an activity stream to display recent events of a resource

A method, system and computer program product for allowing a user to view network contacts of other users when visiting an environment of a different organization. A visitor requests to view a profile of a user while the visitor is visiting the environment or tenant space of a different organization. The organization of the visitor is obtained. Furthermore, the organization and network contacts of the user whose profile is requested to be viewed are obtained in response to validating the visitor's organization. The requested profile is then displayed to the visitor containing the accessible network contacts (if any) of the user based on whether the user and the visitor belong to the same organization.

Allowing a user to view network contacts of other users when visiting an environment of a different organization

A method, system and computer program product for checking documents using colloquialisms. Colloquialisms used in messages by users in a social network are tracked. The relationships (e.g., co-worker) between the senders and recipients of these messages are identified. A social graph is then generated to depict the relations between the users in the social network based on these identified relationships. Furthermore, usage patterns of colloquialisms (e.g., a particular colloquialism is used only with close friends as opposed to co-workers) are formulated. A rule set is generated using the social graph and formulated usage patterns. By using the rule set to check documents, documents may be more accurately checked for spelling and/or grammatical errors by taking into consideration the appropriate usage of colloquialisms based on the context (e.g., communicating with a friend). Furthermore, alternative words or phrases may be appropriately recommended based on the context using such a rule set.

Checking documents for spelling and/or grammatical errors and/or providing recommended words or phrases based on patterns of colloquialisms used among users in a social network

A method for dynamically managing parking space utilization including receiving a dynamic feed of available parking spaces across a set of sectors, each parking space associated with a parking control device, each sector having a preferred utilization rate; utilizing a processor to determine that a parking utilization rate of a first sector exceeds a preferred utilization rate for the first sector; upon receiving a location based parking space reservation request from a user, the request capable of being fulfilled from a plurality of sectors, providing a list of available parking spaces meeting the request including associated prices dynamically generated, wherein parking spaces in the first sector are priced higher than parking spaces in other sectors; and upon selection of one of the provided list of available parking spaces by the user, allocating the selected parking space to the user at the provided associated price and notifying the parking control device associated with the selected parking space.

Dynamically managing parking space utilization

A computer-implemented method of employing organizational context within a collaborative tagging system can include receiving at least one tag for an artifact from a user, determining at least one attribute of the user, and storing a tag record including the tag, the attribute of the user, and an association of the tag with the artifact.

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