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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017

Filed:

May. 15, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Corville O. Allen, Durham, NC (US);

Denis F. Brodeur, Markham, CA;

Richard W. Gregory, Markham, CA;

Visweswara S. Induri, San Ramon, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30613 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems may provide for monitoring shared content for changes by a plurality of users and selecting a subset of the shared content based on one or more collaboration characteristics associated with the changes by the plurality of users. In addition, an indexing schedule may be determined for the subset of the shared content based on the one or more collaboration characteristics. In one example, the collaboration characteristics include one or more user roles associated with one or more of the plurality of users, an operation type, a number of users making the changes and/or a frequency of the changes by the plurality of users.


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