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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1999
Scott C. Cottrille, Redmond, WA (US);
Yoram Yaacovi, Redmond, WA (US);
Antony Halim, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alok K. Sinha, Redmond, WA (US);
Marco A. DeMello, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A scalable computing system for managing dynamic communities stores and provides access to community and member information. A community is a dynamic and virtual association of users. Some example features of a community include: a home page, membership, non-real time based messaging (threaded messages), chats, community calendar, annotations, and management tools for access control. The scalable architecture of the computing system for managing dynamic communities provides a computing system capable of handling the increasing number of community members and the community elements associated with the community.