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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2002
Domenico Raguseo, Pomezia, IT;
Domenico Raguseo, Pomezia, IT;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method and a corresponding system for controlling delivery of information in a forum. In the method () of the invention a user provides () the text of a new message to be submitted to the forum. The user then selects () every confidential portion of the text, and inputs () corresponding replacement information. A confidential version of the message (consisting of the original text) is made available () only to a specific subset of the participants in the forum; a public version of the message, obtained substituting () the replacement information for the corresponding confidential portions of the original text, is made available to all the other participants.