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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2003
Mitchell A. Cohen, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Fenno F. Heath, Iii, Woodbridge, CT (US);
Hui Lei, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Chung-sheng LI, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Jenny S. LI, Stamford, CT (US);
Rakesh Mohan, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Nitinchandra R. Nayak, Ossining, NY (US);
Josef Schiefer, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Stephen Stibler, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Maroun Touma, Redding, CT (US);
Mitchell A. Cohen, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Fenno F. Heath, III, Woodbridge, CT (US);
Hui Lei, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Chung-Sheng Li, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Jenny S. Li, Stamford, CT (US);
Rakesh Mohan, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Nitinchandra R. Nayak, Ossining, NY (US);
Josef Schiefer, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Stephen Stibler, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Maroun Touma, Redding, CT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a system adapted to enable contextual collaboration within a computer network. The invention provides a collaboration manager that supports manipulation of collaboration spaces. The collaboration spaces contain one or more collaboration elements that have potentially different collaboration modalities. The context manager maintains resources and resource interrelationships within contexts. The resources can include collaboration elements, processes, tasks, business objects, users, and/or roles. A view generator selects a set of the resources to be displayed to a user of the computer network. The invention also includes an interface adapted to allow applications to specify commands to manipulate collaboration spaces, commands to maintain resources and resource interrelationships within contexts, and queries for context-sensitive views.