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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2012
Stefan Frank, Belmont, MA (US);
Rani Manoharan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Stefan Frank, Belmont, MA (US);
Rani Manoharan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
In one aspect a machine-implemented method is provided including receiving a request from a user to share content associated with the user with a second user, the content belonging to a specific content space, wherein content belonging to the content space is categorized into two or more content categories by the system, providing a set of system-defined roles associated with the content space to the user for selection, each role being pre-associated with one or more rules defining which of the two or more content categories are accessible by user associated with the role, receiving a selection by the user of a role of the plurality of system-defined roles provided to the user to assign to the second user, associating the role with the second user in response to receiving the selection and providing the second user with access to the content according to the one or more pre-associated rules.