International Business Machines Corporation

William D Dodd

Eduardo N Spring

Chunlong Liang

Rajesh Balasubramanian

Carlos N Andreu

William J O'Donnell

Arrangements described herein relate to collaborative environments and, more particularly, to use of a microblog to enhance communication in an organization. The present arrangements can include receiving from a first user a first microblog entry into a microblog, identifying at least one keyword associated with the first microblog entry, and assigning to the at least one keyword a tag creating an association between the at least one keyword and at least one data repository. The arrangements further can include establishing bidirectional integration between the microblog and the at least one data repository of information related to the tag creating the association between the at least one keyword and the at least one data repository.

Bidirectional integration of information between a microblog and a data repository

An identity provider (IdP) discovery service operative at a service provider (SP) is described. In operation, and as valid requests are received by the SP via normal IdP-initiated flows, the SP builds-up knowledge about the relationship between the IdP (that redirected the request) and the initiator of the request. The IdP instance typically is inferred from an HTTP referrer field, and information about the initiator may be ascertained from client-specific information, such as client system IP address, client DNS domain, a domain of a user e-mail address, a target URL for the incoming request, or the value associated with a particular HTTP header field. This knowledge is maintained in one or more mapping table(s) that associate request attributes-to-IdP instance data. The mappings are then used to facilitate IdP discovery for a new incoming request to the SP that has been determined to originate from other than an IdP.

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William D Dodd