Bea Systems, Inc.

Oracle International Corporation

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.

Nathan Olson

John Rondoni

Jalpesh Patadia

Kevin Verzal

Christopher E Bales

James Owen

Manish Devgan

Jeffrey Elliot Mueller

Cindy McMullen

Ray Polk

Charles Coates

Timothy Noonan

A communities framework is disclosed which contains resources in a repository. The repository contains data stored in nodes wherein each node has data associated with a collaboration resource and each resource has a set of properties or attributes. A server can provide a content object for wrapping the node wherein the content object defines the type of resource contained by the data in the node. An extensible control is provided that performs operations on the node thereby providing an interface to manipulating the node's data. The extensible controls can allow developers to easily create new resources. A generic control can further wrap the extensible control and be adapted to provide an abstracted interface to the content object. An extensible portlet can implement the extensible controls in order to provide users with the ability to add new properties and edit existing properties of the resource.

System and method for providing extensible controls in a communities framework

A community accessed via a portal can be provided that maintains user membership during collaboration on various projects. The members of the community can have access to and share multiple resources. A resource can have a menu associated with it wherein the menu is dynamically displayed on the portal page upon the user right clicking on the resource. Each menu can have several menu items that when selected, execute various actions associated with the resource or perform some other community function. For example, the menu item can call a page flow action, a Javascript function or make a dynamic content update. An active menu tag library can be provided that allows a developer to create customizable new menus and menu items for a given resource by including a tag and specifying tag parameters.

System and method for providing active menus in a communities framework

Embodiments of the present invention enable efficient presentation of user information. A user identifier is presented on a page. In response to a selection of a user identifier, one or more user information modules are utilized to return information relating to the user. The user information modules are modules that maintain user information in association with a user. In one embodiment, a configurable java server tag function generates the presentation of the user identifier, which can then be selected and utilized to request information from one or more information sources.

System and method for configuring a document

A system and method for configuring a portal, comprising providing a first user interface operable to define and/or manage the portal; providing a second user interface operable to define and/or manage personalization of the portal; and wherein the portal can include at least one of the following portal resources: a desktop, a book, a page, a portlet, a shell, a look and feel, and a layout.

Systems and methods for personalizing a portal

System and method for improved user information management

Growing community of inventors

Broomfield, CO, United States of America

Nathan Olson