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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2001
Janet Arlie Barnett, Pattersonville, NY (US);
Barbara Jean Vivier, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Kareem Sherif Aggour, Schenectady, NY (US);
Mark Mitchell Kornfein, Latham, NY (US);
Osman Rifki Oksoy, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Bassel Omari Williams, Albany, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
Establishment and maintenance of a managed community. In this disclosure there is an approach and tool that enables an administration tool to manage communities whose information resides in separate and differently structured directories and databases. In addition, this disclosure describes an approach and tool that enables an administration tool to establish information to be managed from the broad range of directories and databases, which includes defining information that is to be managed and information that is not to be managed and the discovering of new information to manage.