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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2001
William D. Tierney, Methuen, MA (US);
Kenneth G. Moore, Westford, MA (US);
William D. Tierney, Methuen, MA (US);
Kenneth G. Moore, Westford, MA (US);
Groove Networks, Inc., Beverly, MA (US);
Abstract
Users and devices in a peer-to-peer collaboration system can join a management domain in which members are administered as a group by a centralized management server operated by an enterprise. In response to a administrator request to join the management domain, the user downloads an injectible identity file containing a definition of the managed user/device into the user system. The user then joins the managed domain by associating the injected identity with their actual identity. Once a user or device is part of a management domain, that user or device receives license rights and policy restrictions that are associated with the domain. In return, the management server interacts with the individual peer-to-peer collaboration systems to enable the enterprise to monitor the usage of, and control the behavior of, that specific identity within the peer-to-peer collaboration system.