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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2009
Dieter Buehler, Tuebingen, DE;
Charles P. DE Saint-aignan, Providence, RI (US);
Stefan Hepper, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Stefan Schmitt, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Dieter Buehler, Tuebingen, DE;
Charles P. de Saint-Aignan, Providence, RI (US);
Stefan Hepper, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Stefan Schmitt, Holzgerlingen, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to the field of Network portals and in particular to a method and system for restricting access rights on user profile information using a new notion of peer groups, wherein a given user's peer group is defined to be the set of users containing all the members of all the user's communities, wherein the individual communities are defined within the web portal wherein on said web portal a plurality of composite applications are implemented, wherein each composite application () has a predetermined number of users working with said composite application building a community for that composite application, characterized by the steps of: