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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2003
Mustansir Bantwala, Hudson, NH (US);
Miguel A. Estrada, Hollis, NH (US);
Charles R. Hill, Belmont, MA (US);
Sami M. Shalabi, Arlington, MA (US);
Mustansir Bantwala, Hudson, NH (US);
Miguel A. Estrada, Hollis, NH (US);
Charles R. Hill, Belmont, MA (US);
Sami M. Shalabi, Arlington, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for the policy based provisioning and management of a collaborative context. A policy based application provisioning system for use in a collaborative environment can include a policy having rules for limiting collaborative context creation and operation in the collaborative environment. A context provisioning process can be coupled to the policy and configured to create collaborative contexts in the collaborative environment limited by the rules in the policy. Finally, a context management process can be coupled to a data store of usage data for created ones of created collaborative contexts in the collaborative environment.