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| 20090083827 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CIRCUMVENTING INSTANT MESSAGING DO-NOT-DISTURB - A system and method for circumventing a do-not-disturb status of an instant messaging user including defining a policy of circumvention rights for circumventing do-not-disturb status in instant messaging. A do-not-disturb status of an instant messaging user is identified, and the do-not-disturb status of the instant messaging user is circumvented based upon the policy of circumvention rights. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090164267 | Employing Organizational Context within a Collaborative Tagging System - A computer-implemented method of employing organizational context within a collaborative tagging system can include receiving at least one tag for an artifact from a user, determining at least one attribute of the user, and storing a tag record including the tag, the attribute of the user, and an association of the tag with the artifact. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090249432 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CIRCUMVENTING INSTANT MESSAGING DO-NOT-DISTURB - A method and computer program product for defining one or more authorized users capable of granting do-not-disturb circumvention privileges, and receiving an indicator of a grant of do-not-disturb circumvention privileges to a circumventing user by the one or more authorized users. A do-not-disturb status of an instant messaging user is circumvented based upon, at least in part, the grant of do-not-disturb circumvention privileges. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090293127 | System for Protecting a Computing System from Harmful Active Content in Documents - A system protects a computing device from potentially harmful code in a document by receiving a data structure representation of the document and adding dynamically one or more definitions of potentially harmful active content to an editable configuration file. Each definition identifies potentially harmful active content and specifies an action to be performed on that potentially harmful active content if that potentially harmful active content is found in the document. The editable configuration file is parsed to generate a data structure representation of the one or more definitions in the editable configuration file. The data structure representation of the document is compared with the data structure representation of the one or more definitions of potentially harmful active content to identify potentially harmful active content within the document. The document is modified to render harmless any identified potentially harmful active content before presenting the document to the computing device. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100050246 | TRUSTING SECURITY ATTRIBUTE AUTHORITIES THAT ARE BOTH COOPERATIVE AND COMPETITIVE - A method and system for authorizing a user. The method comprises the steps of assigning a first role to a user in a first domain, assigning a second role in a second domain to the first role, and assigning access to a resource in the second domain to the second role. The method comprises the further steps of receiving a request from the user for the resource; and providing access to the resource, to the user. The invention may be employed by users and services to manage their interaction with those services, including configuring which they trust for what types of information, in what applications, and which subsets of information they can be trusted to provide. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100070587 | EMBEDDING RESURFACING TRIGGERS IN CLIENT SIDE RECIPIENT ELECTRONIC MAIL - A method for utilizing embedded resurfacing logic in electronic mail (email), the method includes: receiving an email with embedded resurfacing logic at a recipient's email client; determining whether the recipient has opened the email; wherein in the event the email has not been opened: determining whether a triggering event has occurred; wherein in the event a triggering event has occurred and has not exceeded a maximum number of triggering events: generating a resurfaced email entry at the top of the recipients email inbox, and wherein the triggering event is a predefined time interval in which the recipient has not opened the email. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100115580 | RETROSPECTIVE POLICY SAFETY NET - These and other objectives are attained with a method and system for evaluating an access policy change. The method comprises the step of providing an access control mechanism having a first policy, and an audit log having entries of accesses made under that first policy. The method comprises the further steps of submitting a second policy to the access control mechanism, comparing the log entries to the second policy, and based on the results of the comparing step, taking one of a predetermined number of actions. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100169136 | INFORMATION AGGREGATION FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS - A dynamically developed social networking group is defined within a collaborative platform. Information regarding one or more attributes of one or more members of the group is collected. Anonymized statistical data regarding the group is provided, based upon, at least in part, the information regarding one or more attributes of one or more members of the group. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169431 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CIRCUMVENTING INSTANT MESSAGING DO-NOT-DISTURB - A system and method for circumventing a do-not-disturb status of an instant messaging user including defining requesting, from one or more do not disturb circumvention mediators, do-not-disturb status circumvention of an instant messaging user. Circumvention permission for the do-not-disturb status of the instant messaging user is received. The do-not-disturb status of the instant messaging user is circumvented based upon, at least in part, the circumvention permission. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169438 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CIRCUMVENTING INSTANT MESSAGING DO-NOT-DISTURB - A system and method for circumventing a do-not-disturb status of an instant messaging user including defining a trusted user. A do-not-disturb status of an instant messaging user is identified. The trusted user is allowed to circumvent the do-not-disturb status of the instant messaging user. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169957 | WEAK PASSWORD SUPPORT IN A MULTI-USER ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for supporting weak password authentication in a multi-user application environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for supporting weak password authentication in a multi-user application environment can be provided. The method can include acquiring log in data for a log in attempt by an end user amongst end users in a multi-user application. The method also can include messaging the log in data to others of the end users for subjective analysis by the others of the end users in detecting an unauthorized log in attempt. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110078197 | FILE RESHARING MANAGEMENT - Managing file distribution in an online file sharing system implemented by at least one server includes inviting a first entity to access a shared file hosted by the online file sharing system, and allowing the first entity to reshare the shared file through the online file sharing system with at least a second entity only to an extent permitted by a resharing policy stored by the online file sharing system. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110137664 | Providing Schedule Related Information to External Entities - A method for providing schedule related information to external entities includes storing schedule data of a user on a server, the schedule data corresponding to a computerized calendar service; exposing, with the computerized calendar service, at least a portion of the schedule data to an entity other than the user; and enabling the entity to communicate an offer based on the schedule data to at least the user. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110145891 | Securing Asynchronous Client Server Transactions - A method, system, and computer usable program product for securing asynchronous client server transactions are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A request including an application identifier and a version of a second application is received at a first application. A service identifier is generated if a session with the second application is valid. A registry is generated at the first application. A catalog is generated based on the registry and the service identifier and the catalog are sent to the second application. A sub-request including the service identifier is received as part of an asynchronous client server transaction. Validity of the sub-request is determined by determining whether the service identifier has expired, whether the sub-request requests a service that is permissible according to the catalog, whether the service identifier is used in conjunction with the second application, or a combination thereof. If the sub-request is valid, the service is provided. | 06-16-2011 |
